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Help please..I will be delivering baby while husband is at boot camp
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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When he gets to A school, he has to earn his liberty privileges to even leave base. A schools have a liberty miles limit, usually 300 miles. For him to go home, he must take leave, and leave is not granted to A school students for the most part. Unless it is Christmas, then they can take 10 days or two weeks.
What may be able to happen is he can request an "out of bounds" chit to fly home. Of course, he would have to have earned his liberty privileges, which takes a few weeks. He'd have to find a weekend he doesn't have duty, or get it swapped.
Within a year of the birth, he can request 10 days paternity leave in conjunction with his regular leave. A school can't grant it, but he can ask at his first command. Again, which A school? Because there are a lot of schools which are very long, and some which are short. He might be able to use it between school and his first command, although I'm not clear on this detail of the policy.
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Permalink Reply by GraceRae<3 on
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He is going to aviation mechanics school in Pensacola, fl..... So the baby is being born in the middle of August- two weeks before he's finished with boot camp. We currently live in Washington too.
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That's a fairly short school, couple~three months. Good news, it is short. Bad news, it is short so he won't get to take leave. Find the P-cola school group on here, there are several, and those ladies can give you a timeline of how long AM takes. Whatever his orders say, it will be a bit longer. Always is. You will almost assuredly get to see him soon after A school. You can move with him, unless they give him overseas orders... which they try not to do for married sailors.
She might actually be four months old by the time he gets to come home. However, invest in laptops/tablets with cameras you can Skype on. He can see her, at least, and she can hear his voice. There's a lot you can do regarding communication once he's in school.
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Im not trying to get him home for when she's born I now that can't happen but I don't want her to be like four months old by the time he gets to meet her!
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He's not deployed... Hes going to be at A school
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Permalink Reply by rxl100 on
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I think what AntiM wrote is very accurate. Unfortunately, it may be four months (or even longer) before your husband can meet his daughter but hopefully this won't be the case for you and your family. Good luck with the pregnancy and getting through bootcamp.
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Thank you.... I am prepared to not see him for a long time, I'm just so new to everything and I don't know how long to expect him to be at A school and if I will see him once he's finished with A school or not. We are married so I'm assuming that unless he's on some weird base that I can't be at then we will move to be with him wherever he's stationed at?
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Thank you...he hasn't even left for boot camp yet. He's leaving on 7/2 to great lakes.
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Oh wow where in Washington? I'm in Kingston across from Edmonds by bainbridge... My dd is the 29th but im a planned c section. So she will be born around the 22nd....Lol that's exactly what I told my husband lol I said at least she will be sleeping more the the night :) my man will be in florida
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Permalink Reply by Le Shelby on
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First, congratulations on your pregnancy, babies are awesome and a true blessing. Second, i hate to be the bad guy, but this is why before they go to bootcamp and arw still attending meetings that their recruiter strongly encourages protected sex until hes done with his training because like all these ladies said, it will be hard for him to come home because he has to earn it and it can take a while depending on A school. My boyfriend has been in school since april and he just not got his pass to leave base all weekend. But hes 700 miles away from home so he cant come home.
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your not the bad guy... and it wasnt like he got recruited then i got pregnant then hes leaving. I was pregnant before he thought about joining. Like I said before I know what to expect out of it but I was more curious as to when or if they can come home during A school or what the deal is. We are married and already have a three year old daughter so its not like this is the first time around the block either.
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