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Comment by Jenni1453 on April 9, 2015 at 5:56pm

Oh weird. My comment vanished. Anyway he needs permission to sleep off of the ship. Check with people to make sure base housing isn't bad. :)

Comment by Jenni1453 on April 9, 2015 at 5:55pm

Lol. Good not goo.

Comment by Rachel on April 9, 2015 at 5:51pm

We plan to live on base when we move up there. Is that recommended? Does that make things easier?

Comment by Jenni1453 on April 9, 2015 at 3:53pm

Its a little more complicated than a chit. He needs to fill out a live ashore packet and they will walk him through everything. You'll be approved to move up before he will be approved to live with you. The school will need a copy of your lease before they can sign off on him being there.

Comment by Rachel on April 9, 2015 at 3:49pm

MY husband is going to be through with boot camp on may 15 and then will go to nuke school in Charleston. Once he puts in his chit for us to move with him. what do i do next?  Does it take a while to get approved to go with him? Does he get leave in between boot camp and school? the recruiters said he might.thank you in advance this helps my anxiety so much!

Comment by AOWife825 on April 9, 2015 at 11:24am

Hey ladies. My future wife is graduating next from boot camp. I can't wait to see her next week! And she will be headed to A-School in Pensacola for AO! I'm extremely excited for her. We know her actual school is only 28 days. And they told her she will based at a naval air station because of her job. Is there anyone here whose spouse is an AO? I've heard being married to an AO is like being married to a special breed of the Navy! Her RDC's tell her she's going to fit right in with the AO's. I also heard there is wait time for classing up for AO. Any information is helpful

Comment by Lizzie_Corpsmanwife on April 9, 2015 at 11:04am

@Elise
Hey girl I'm gonna be really honest with you and tell you what I tell everyone that posts the question about Corpsman school. My husband came here April last year and I moved on my own dime here to be with him. It was the BEST decision for OUR family and we both agreed we wanted to be close to each other. I rented a room somewhere on the NorthEast side and would pick him up Friday and drop him off Sunday before 9. I helped him study his butt off every weekend and some weekends we went to Six Flags and the river. Best decision I ever made. He graduated from A school and we stayed here for C school until tomorrow when he graduated and we move to our first station. We didn't get screwed on our PCS because the Navy knows I moved here and are paying for me and him to move from San Antonio to San Diego. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen so we were very lucky the navy ok'd me being here. We for X amount of money which is WOW to us and that will help our DITY move.

Regarding FMF or Greenside, when your spouse arrives to A school, she will fill out a dream sheet with three duty stations and three C schools. She has to be top rank to even get what she wants because my husband and two others were the only ones that got what they wanted. There is a very small chance she could go Greenside of the Navy has a need for her to be Greenside.

Regarding hospitals, when they do clinicals they spend the last two weeks of A school at a hospital.

It is solely up to you and your spouse to decide if it is best for your family to move to TX. It is only 14wks but they have I think a week to two weeks hold time so total 16wks and she can end up being here longer for C school.

Hope that helps and if you have any questions you can totally DM me. I'll answer all your questions to the best of my knowledge.

Comment by Anti M on April 9, 2015 at 10:46am

Also, nuts, thumbdrives with pictures or movies, popcorn, small magnetic picture frame for his locker or rack, gummy worms (melty?), boxers, magazines and comics.

Comment by Anti M on April 9, 2015 at 9:25am

@katiegc .... care packages:   clean socks, playing cards, salty snacks, well packed cookies, gym, mints, hard candies, jerky, tuna packets, drink mixes and water bottles, water enhancers.

Chocolate melts.  Nerf footballs pollute the ocean forever. Glass is hard to deal with on a ship, so no "cake in a jar" (a pet peeve of mine).  No confetti or glitter.

Send scented items (soap, deodorant, dryer sheets) in separate packages from food, the scents can transfer into the edibles and it is nasty.

Comment by Anti M on April 9, 2015 at 9:20am

@Elise... HMs can be stationed almost anywhere, although if she goes through FMF, she would be with the Marines.  As a female, more likely a Marine Airwing.

She could be sent to a ship, clinic, hospital.... there are many possibilities.  HM does not have a sea-shore rotation like other ratings.  They go greenside or blueside instead (and I'd have to google that for you, not an area of expertise).

If you move to TX on your own dime, you may be screwed on the PCS move after she graduates.  I'd suggest long weekend visits once she phases up instead.

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