Any Minemen on here?
 

Are there any minemen on here?

YES!
NOW THERE ARE TWO OF US!

Hell yeah! When do you ship? I leave 20140409

20140211

I am also MN and ship out 20140212. I am the guy that will be called Grandpa.

How old? I'm 25

I'm 24

35 yrs old

Just a tad bit older than most lol

yeah just a tad 10 years older. I could be a father to most kids in my Dep meetings. What have you found out about the A schooling location? My recruiter does not know the location and believes it is still Ingleside, TX

Yeah, I spoke with a guy who just got done with A-School he said it is now in San Diego, CA and with ATT schooling and A-school its about 5Months in all. I also found out Ignleside has been closed since 2010.. Time to update some documents if ask me. haha

Ok, sounds good. I was not aware of the ATT School and nothing in my contract for it. I am Reserves, so guessing it is something I will not be attending.

Not 100% on this but I think everyone goes through it.

Hey, Crandan27
I spoke with the LPO of the Mineman A-School. He says A-school is San Diego, CA and is 13weeks long. He also said once we get back to our NOSC there are opportunities that come up to come back on Active Duty.. Currently they have 3 Reservist Instructors at A-school since they are undermanned. So that leads me to think if you want Active Duty opportunities they will be there for us in the Reserves. If you have a Facebook look up Mine Warefare Training Center, you can message MN1 Cross who is the LPO of Mineman A-School. Hope this helps anyone.

Zachdaniel...thank you for all of your research.

No problem Crandan27. There isnt a whole lot info out there for our Rating like there is for all the other ones. Glad I could help other out as well as myself get the answers we wanted.

This is good news. I really want to be active

Me too man. I was bummed when I was told all I could do is reserves right now but this gets my foot in the door and this rate seems like it's going to be a good one to get a lot of active duty time in, until I can cross over to active duty later on.

Chance.... We are going to be at Basic together all the way through A school. I ship the 12th and I see you are shipping the 11th. We may even end up in the same division?. I only know of one other guy from CO that is shipping the same time we are and also has MN rate. So if you happen to see the "old guy" that will be me. Good luck!

Haha I'll keep an eye out. I'll be the ginger kid with a nautical star tattoo on the calf

I got the MN rate. I leave for Basic Training 20150709. I'm pretty excited, I hope y'all know how honored I am to be apart of the worlds greatest Navy!!

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