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Individual augmentee???
My son is in machinist mate A school right now and told me he got pulled out of class to sign individual augmentee papers and that he might get called to train with the Army for a couple weeks and then serve a combat mission if the situation in N. Korea warrants it. Anybody else have experience with this? He didn't have a lot of answers...I think some of it he's not supposed to talk about. :/
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Permalink Reply by NancyJo (NNPTC) on
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Yvonne, I just googled it and there is a navy individual augmentee site that it might be worth your while. Navy Individual Augmentee
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Permalink Reply by Joniana (Helen) on
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Yvonne, we will be keeping your son in our thoughts. This is certainly a bolt out of the blue. NancyJo, thanks for the link -- very informative. Let's hope there is no need to activate the individual augmentees. Hugs to you and your family.
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Permalink Reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on
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Yvonne - wow this is something that I had not heard of before.....my son is also in machinist mate A school. Hopefully your son won't have to deploy.....keeping you and your son in our thoughts. Hugs to you both.....
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Permalink Reply by boolie1992 on
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Yvonne, is this mandatory or voluntary? I can't believe they would do this to the Navy guys, aren't there enough Army soldiers?
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Thanks NancyJo, that link is helpful. :)
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Permalink Reply by SANDY ship07div056 on
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Oh my! I would be a hot mess. I googled it too. According to what I've seen, this has become common practice. Talk to your Sailor every chance you get. Communication is everything right now! Prayers dear friend~
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Permalink Reply by proudmom63 on
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MAY I ASK, WHEN DID YOUR SON START a SCHOOL? sorry about the caps!
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Permalink Reply by William in Nashua on
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The Navy needs nukes and if a student is doing well in A school it seems to me that the last thing they would do with that person is suddenly hand him over to the Army to become a foot soldier. It would make even less sense to interrupt a student's training, send him to do a stint with the Army, and then put him back in nuclear A school again. This makes me suspect they might be getting ready to drop your son from the nuclear program. I hope this is not the case.
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From what he said, it's purely random... and, yes, mandatory. Even one of his instructors was brought in. I wouldn't think he's going to be dropped...two weeks away from A school grad and third in his class, has been on voluntary study hours for almost the whole time. He did say as long as he's called after A school, it's pretty much guaranteed he'd be a humvee mechanic if he goes. better than patrol, I guess :/
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If that is the way it is happening, that is insane. So they are not only going to yank (good) students out of the classroom, they are also going to yank A school instructors out of NNPTC and send them over to the Army? This is madness.
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I agree with William - this is madness......my son specifically looked at Navy and Air Force - he wasn't interested in Army or Marines (nothing against them at all, but it wasn't what my son was looking for). Now to think they could be "voluntold" for this program - ohhhh - not what I want to hear.
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Permalink Reply by NF Mom on
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My son piped in on this yesterday and indicated in 2011 two of his buddies in A school tried to volunteer for this.
It was made clear to them then that Nukes were not allowed to volunteer as augmentees nor were they sent involuntarily as augmentees.
They were expected to qualify as Nukes.
So apparently this crazy scheme is recent.
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