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Liberty and Leave question while in A school
It makes sense that they cannot take leave during the week while in school. Do they get liberty for holidays? If so how long do they usually get per holiday? Is it different for certain holidays?
We are planning on getting married while he is in A school but we will have to plan carefully either on a weekend or while he is on liberty for a holiday. Any advice would be great!
His PIR date is October 28, 2011 and He is going to the Nuke program in SC. We are not sure yet if he will have to go straight there after PIR or will be able to come home for a bit. I guess it depends on when the school starts.
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Permalink Reply by Dana (David's Mom) on
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He will have to go straight to Goose Creek after PIR. He will have Thanksgiving weekend off but might not be able to leave as he has to go through phases of time and good behavior/grades. He should get two weeks off for Christmas as the school closes then. (But as always things change and sometimes they only get a week with duty filling the rest of the time)
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Permalink Reply by hstolz on
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My son's PIR date was 8/25, and he is now at Goose Creek. Just finished Brief Week and starts A school formally on Monday. As far as i have heard, they have weekend daytime (5am through 12:15am) 75 mile liberty as soon as they get there. Then after phase one (first 4 weeks of A school) they have weekend (including overnight) 350 mile liberty. I'm not expert though, so I'll stay tuned to see if anyone has better or different info.
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Permalink Reply by Janis on
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My sons PIR date is in December. I'm assuming he'll go straight to Goose Creek. When will we know if he can come home for Christmas?
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Permalink Reply by pmgcakes on
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Hi Janis, I guess it all depends on when your son will have PIR - My son's left for boot camp on 10/26/2010 with a PIR of 12/17/2010, we were very lucky that he was able to flight home with us that same night, his orders were to report to Goose Creek on 12/28/2010. This is not typical procedure, as all nukes are grad and go, meaning that they will fly out to SC on saturday morning after PIR.
Also, were also able to go and pick him up on Thanksgiving Day, that was such a special treat, he called 2 weeks before and said I will be dressed and waiting (LOL), we live in NY and instantly started to plan our road trip. All of this worked out to our advantage and great timing for us, he was at BC long enough to be able to leave for the day, and bring a buddy with him too!
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Permalink Reply by amwest0713 on
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I did not know that Nukes were "grad and go" so my SR will be leaving saturday morning after PIR to goto goose creek?
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Permalink Reply by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on
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I believe that now all graduates going outside of Great Lakes for A school leave on Saturday after PIR unless there is a problem with getting flights out to their A school. Most all of them leave GL and head to the airport way before the rooster crows but family can meet them at the airport and stay until their flight leaves.
Our sailor didn't get to PIR due to an injury and staying in RCU for 5 weeks so we had to cancel all of our reservations anyway.
Ours got to come home last Christmas as he was on T Track but only got 7 days instead of the 2 weeks. This year he'll be prototype and won't get to come home at all for Christmas. Boo hoo! DIL and dogs are coming and he'll be in Goose Creek all by his lonesome but he said he'd rather be there by himself working his 12 hour shifts than having her sitting there all by herself while he does his 12 hour shifts and sleeps the rest of the time.
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Permalink Reply by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on
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Do you know about Thanksgiving in Prototype? Do they ever get anytime besides the two days after their seven worked?
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M has been told that they'll get 4 days at Thanksgiving because they should still be in classroom stuff as they will only be a month or so into prototype training. If they have moved on to "watch" then the 7 days on 2 days off will be in effect, that's why he knows he won't be home for Christmas because by then they'll definitely be on the rotating shifts.
Yet another "new normal" in our house, I think we'll start to call it Navy Normal (you Never kNow)
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thanks for that info....very good
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Hi TN Mom - My son is graduating power school next Friday, I was wondering how long your Sons hold was/is? TY..
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My son graduated Power School in June and is still on hold. He will mov eto Ballston Spa Oct 14th but is not sure yet when he will start Prototype.
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