Mykenzie

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Hi Mykenzie - I am so glad that your loved one has graduated now. I usually do my best to come welcome each of our new BC members here, but it has been a busy month for me. I would have recalled that you are a spouse or girlfriend, I forget now. I apologize. 

I wanted to share a couple of things. First now that you have a sailor, go to your settings and change stage of Navy career to Enlisted.

Secondly, I wanted to invite you to our new Beyond BC group. We started this group, especially for those who might not have another active group on this site to ask questions about A school and beyond. There is also another group that is not as active but if you post a question it should get answered within a couple of days. Moms of "A" school Sailors - Navy For Moms (ning.com) 

Just remember you are not alone on this Navy journey and being a spouse or a girlfriend is hard. There are a lot of sacrifices that you will be making, so learning to network, and connect at your sailors duty station is important. Especially being connected to the ombudsman. Not all commands have as great an ombudsman as my son's is but they are there to be the connection between family and command.