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Comment by Mike K on January 7, 2010 at 3:12pm

Steve, as far as our son has told us, under normal circumstances once you graduate from power school you need to move out to an apartment or whatever they find within a matter of days. I have no idea what Balston Spa is like but my son says there are very few places if any close enough to base within walking distance. He also said that prototype is on a completely different part of the base than the earlier schools. He said personal transportation is necessary as the hours of each person differs, and you can not count on rides from others because of that. This is all best guess really from what he has heard. He also has heard that there is a pretty good grapevine among the sailors as to housing for prototype and I guess the Navy helps there too as best they can. They do get housing allowance for living off base and if they get several guys living together they could come out ahead on the deal.

Comment by Steven S on January 7, 2010 at 2:57pm

Gentlemen, our talk about the house has shifted to A school and beyond after getting sent this form our son received during a meeting at GL with the Nuke heads there. For the second phase, sorry don't remember the term, 7th month, did yours get to choose Balston Spa or GC? And during prototype, the third stage we see they are required to find housing and transportation to the facility. Have you found that there is housing close enough to the facility there around GC to not require them to have a car or the like.? These are all things im sure ours will work out and be fine with eventually. We just sit here and ponder. You remember... : )

Comment by Mike K on January 7, 2010 at 2:48pm

My son also graduates on May 14 from power school and told us pretty much the same thing when he was home for Christmas. There will be a hold of at least a couple months he said. He does not know whether they would stay in GC on hold if their ultimate station is Balston Spa for prototype.

Comment by GP on January 7, 2010 at 2:08pm

My son is in power school now and was told his graduation date is May 14. After that he was told to expect to be on hold for anywhere from 2 - 4 months until moving on to Prototype. Any one hear anything similar?

Comment by Steven S on January 5, 2010 at 10:07pm

Ship4Div76 nukes had a meeting last week and we were mailed a schedule for the next 1.5 years with all kinds of interesting facts on it. If anyone has any questions let me know. PIR 2/5/10

Comment by Scott on December 31, 2009 at 7:05am

John, it can be very confusing trying to figure out the Navy. My son's status changed three times in the last week, as far as grad and go or staying for 5 days. He ended up a grad and go and we got to see him after the PIR for 40 minutes. We were able to go to the airport and see him while he waited for his plane though.

Comment by Steven S on December 30, 2009 at 8:24pm

Mary
It's on the form with his bonus amount. States that he enters E3 and will be MM unless its not available. I'm not sure really what it all means.?
I'd like to figure out which job and which college will give him the work credit. I'm sure they will get into all of that soon though.

Comment by John J on December 30, 2009 at 10:46am

Hi Guys.
Iam confused re Grad N Go i thought this was a last minute descion? i did not know you Knew way in advance? as i note a couple of you are already saying your sons are Grad N Go yet they still have a number of days left at BC?
Happy New Year to you ALL

Comment by MaryK13 on December 30, 2009 at 10:23am

It was on his contract?? My son is in BC right now and they chose which rate they wanted to be while there. Then, after they make their "wish list" then they find out what rate they have be assigned. I am confused about the contract having that info.

Comment by Steven S on December 30, 2009 at 12:42am

I looked at the boys contract and it says he's MM unless already given to someone else then he's ET and something else. Interesting..... hmm
His PIR is 2/5/10

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