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Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
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He will move across to TSC on Friday afternoon, post PIR. After he settles in (3-5 hours) and you pick him up, you can transfer his personal stuff to his navy issue backpack. He will know what's allowable.
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Permalink Reply by DNavyFamily on
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Hello CryptoDad- I'm a Dad of a CT and I am trying to get a better feel for the Grad N Go situation for those who have A schools away from GL. Has it been pretty much a consistent trend that those sailors leave on Saturday? Especially trying to assess things in relation to Labor Day.
Thank you!
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First, Grad N Go is an obsolete term. Long ago (11 years), when my daughter graduated from RTC, there were unlucky Sailors that got an hour or so to visit with families and then were loaded on buses and left for the airport on Friday afternoon. Hence graduate and go. No time wasted. The majority of new Sailors flew out on MONDAY! On rare occasions, like holidays that fell on Mondays and air traffic was very busy, some Sailors flew on Sundays. Nobody flew on Saturday. My Sailor graduated on the Friday before Labor Day and left on Sunday because of the busy Monday holiday.
Now things are twisted around. Friday Grad N Go is dead and Saturday departures are the consistent norm. Sunday departures are still possible during peak travel periods.
Try to be flexible. Only your Sailor will know his/her travel arrangements and usually too late to get them to you before PIR. Plan of a Saturday departure for your Sailor, but if you can postpone your own departure until Sunday that would be best. Be sure to take advantage of any time you can spend together at the airport, even if it means getting up at an unreasonable hour of the morning.
What type of CT? My CTR had C school at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX.
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