Does everyone go

[berttmann]

If you are coming from the Fleet do you have to go to the Great Lakes portion of the training? Wasn't sure if that was just for people coming from boot camp and A school. Thanks for the time.

[eodjw]

All enlisted go.

[sarswimmer17]

Fleet returns are not going to the pre buds coarse as of now, they dont have funding, they are working on it, right out of the buds detailer mouth.

[eodjw]

SARSwimmer17, This was not a question about BUD/S. Our course in Great Lakes is completely seperate from theirs. Ours has been up and running for over a year. Once again, yes Fleet Returnees go. Gator on this board has attended as a Fleet Returnee.

[gator33]

Yep. We all go to the prep course. We lost more guys there than we did at dive school. I was up there last February. Great weather.

[sarswimmer17]

I thought he was asking about the new pprt course there that just up and started, as i was told by the detailer I will not be attending before I go to coranodo because of funding, i didnt realize he was speaking of another course, sorry for the confusion.

[berttmann]

Thanks for the info guys.. Once you put your package in, how long does it normally take to class up?

[eodjw]

That I'm not sure about. It's been a few years since I put in a package. It depends on the numbers per class. Do a search for EOD recruiter and give him a call. He can give you a lot more information.

[gator33]

It depends. There were guys who had their packages in before me and got orders for classes after mine and vice versa. I think I faxed my package off in September and had orders in October for the class in February of last year. FORCM Santino was just down here with EODCS Treible and I believe Treible is still the in-service recruiter. I don't have his phone number anymore, but his e-mail is scott.treible@navy.mil. He's located at the NECC at Little Creek. Good luck.

Gator

[berttmann]

What do they have you doing at Great Lakes, I read in a post (I think it was in one of yours gator) that more people dropped from great lakes than at Dive school. Was it more than they expected or what? Thanks for all the time and answers..

[gator33]

I think it's just the water, you know? Treading water with tanks on, breathing with a snorkel and no mask got one guy. One guys ended up with mediastinal from porpoising. I know all of this may sound like a foreign language but it's just the water and what it does to people. I had been through it before so I knew what I needed to work on, but I think people just focus on PT and all of that and...yes, that's part of it, but the first time I tried to get through dive school I was one of the top PT guys and all of that doesn't matter when you're underwater doing all of that. With that being said, most people don't have a problem with the actual underwater portion of dive school. If you can, practice treading water with fins and a brick in a pool holding the brick out of water. Don't worry too much about it. Almost all of the guys that didn't make it through dive prep at GL just weren't nearly prepared enough. Good luck.

Gator

[ddssdv]

I thought he was asking about the new pprt course there that just up and started, as i was told by the detailer I will not be attending before I go to coranodo because of funding, i didnt realize he was speaking of another course, sorry for the confusion.


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[ddssdv]

What do they have you doing at Great Lakes, I read in a post (I think it was in one of yours gator) that more people dropped from great lakes than at Dive school. Was it more than they expected or what? Thanks for all the time and answers..

Living in the water isn't for everyone. You have to figure out how to breathe all over again.