Living with spouse during A school.

[Britt0903]

Hi there. I am looking for any advice/information on living with a spouse during A school. My husband leaves to Bootcamp soon and his A school will be longer than six months so I am planning on moving with him. Does anyone have any info or tips to share with me regarding this. Thanks in advance :)

[Allison]

Danita, for Great Lakes (which I think is the only other duty station that authorizes live ashore besides Nuke during A School) you can expect usually one weekend a month where you don't really get much of a weekend at all together and also one weekend a month where you get the full weekend. The other two weeks will be somewhere in the middle. You'll be able to plan in advance for those weekends, and all of his duty days unless he moves ships or they lose a section from lack of numbers to fill one, which will just change the rotation, but it will be consistent with the change. Liberty rules apply to live ashore students in every respect except overnight liberty and liberty buddies, my husband was phase 1 most of our time there just because he never bothered with it all, but he still stayed overnight every night except duty days, drove, was able to leave base alone, and all that. I think compared to his C School and looking back on A School, it didn't seem like a lot of time, but now at his current duty station, I miss how much time we could spend together at Great Lakes haha. 

[Madison]

Allison,

Im glad i came across this! My husband is in bootcamp rigbt now and will be at A school for two years. I am moving up there around the time of the graduation and wasnt sure if he was going to be able to live with me off base! So am i understanding it right that he will not need to be in the barracks for a month before living with me? Or how does one go about that?

[Allison]

Once live ashore is approved, which typically only takes a week or two, yes, he’ll have special liberty to live off base with you. All I meant by they don’t have to wait, is that they don’t have to wait until a particular phase or anything to be able to live off base. The part people usually find themselves waiting on is the actual housing part, signing a lease, or waiting for a move in date. Since your husband is probably Nuke, I don’t know much about their housing policy. Duty stations can put direct assignment into place, which requires certain paygrades and their families (usually E5 and below for enlisted) to live in base housing for at least a year. This is because the military realized they were spending a lot of money on sailors living out in town, while government housing was also just sitting empty, so if the number of occupied units is below a certain percentage, they’ll put this out to save money. A good person to direct this question to, and just a good resource to have in general for current command specific questions, is your ombudsman. https://ombudsmanregistry.cnic.navy.mil