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After Basic
My boyfriend is in basic right now and I understand that I don't get to call or text him but I was wondering how much we are allowed to communicate after basic when he goes to school. Can he text throughout the day or is it only allowed at night when he's finished? Are we allowed to skype at all?
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Permalink Reply by Nellz15 on
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No texting or calls during school hours obviously but other than that yall can talk, text, skype, pretty much anything after he's off
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Permalink Reply by abuon18 on
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As long as he's not working, so not in class, not standing watch, not at muster or PT.... Also not in the galley. He is allowed to have his cell phone and a computer (I think some A schools only allow laptops though, at least that's what I heard when my husband was in A school.) Also if he is walking in uniform. If he's in uniform he is not allowed to hold things in his hand, and they're not allowed to walk & talk so sometimes he may say he has to go because he has to walk. Like my husband would sometimes have class, then a break and have to go back for mandatory study. In between he could do whatever he wanted but he had to stay in uniform. So we would talk but when he had to go to study he would have to get off the phone to walk there.
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Permalink Reply by Desiree on
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my husband is in a school right now in Pensacola and was allowed to have his phone and other electronics right away. we FaceTime and Skype daily, we talk and text throughout the day. although there are times he can't have his phone the communication between us is great unlike the boot camp days.
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Desiree, my boyfriend will be going to Pensacola for rescue swimming after graduation on 8/31. Were you able to find him at the airport and give him his phone the day he had to leave? I am really looking forward to being able to talk to him every day, but there will be a 3 hour time zone difference so I was also curious of any specific hours they could not talk.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Also, when he is on watch on his duty day, he is not supposed to be using his phone at all for however long the watch is. And for all you know, he may have night classes! Some do.
Don't expect to chat freely all the time via text. As you can see, there are a lot of restrictions and always some exceptions.
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Permalink Reply by navygirl22 on
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thank you all for letting my know. I figured he would not be able to during school hours but I was worried that he would not be allowed to do certain things during his free time
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