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request roommate at A school
Does anyone know if you can request a roommate for A school, and if so, how do you do that? Thank you.
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Comment by sailorwifenmom on December 8, 2012 at 6:25pm
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Generally speaking, you can't request a roommate assignment going into your A school. Unlike at a college, where, for the most part, everyones semester or year starts at the same time, so everyone moves in at the same time, the Navy schools are ongoing. So, when a Sailor arrives from boot camp, they are assigned to a room that has an opening, often with Sailors who are already in their school. (A good example is this - my son arrived and had a roommate. A week later, they got a third roommate. Two weeks after my son got there, the first roommate graduated...)
Now, after they get there, if there are problems that are unable to be resolved, then they can request that they be reassigned to a new room, but it's not something that can be done in advance.
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Comment by Beckyt559 Ship 12 Div 347 on December 10, 2012 at 12:07pm
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My son is currently in A school in San Antonio which he is really enjoying by the way. His roommate is a sailor from his brother division at boot camp. My son has met a lot of new friends and many of them got awesome assignments heading to Spain, Italy, Bahamas and San Diego. He's the only one heading to NAS Lemoore near our home as he is a reserve. He is a little bummed.
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Comment by BunkerQB on December 10, 2012 at 2:23pm
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Becky, I see you are from Hanford, CA. I can understand why he would be bummed - "Join the Navy - see the world" and he ends up just down the road from home. But ..... the good part is you are in the same time zone. Best of luck to you and your sailor.
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Iknow this is an old post, but My daughter is in A-school right now, and is having trouble with her roommate, but doesn't want to be "that person" who can't get along. She is trying very hard, and every other day her room mate blows up at her and tells her she doesn't know how to clean or isn't doing something right and my daughter calls me in tears saying she cannot win with her roommate. All I want to do as a parent is help her deal with this, and have her talk to someone, but I don't know who to tell her to talk to. This room mate has been like this since she moved in one day nice and apologetic and the next screaming like its boot camp about how far the bed is from the wall, how she doesn't clean right, how she is rude to leave the room when her room mate is yelling at her and more.. She said she feels like she's in boot camp again.I don't know what to do to help her... Any suggestions?
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