K, I sorta don't know where to start. My boyfriend is gonna be leaving for boot camp soon and I have so many questions! My friend is already married to her marine and told me this site might help me. K, first question, I live here and my bf is gonna b in san Diego for boot camp. Will he get like any time off or can I go visit him? I don't think I'll be able to survive that whole time if he is so close and I can't at least visit. Also, how much will he get to call me? We usually are always together or we talk on the phone for like hours every day. And how do you guys deal with being apart from your men? I seriously cry just thinking about it. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I've never had to deal with anything like this. Please help me! 

Nope, you can't visit him at all. You won't be able to see him until he graduates. He might be able to call you once or twice for like 2 minutes the entire time he's there. Your main way of communication will have to be by letters. 

Pretty much expect letters for 3 months. You will be lucky to get a phone call. You want to visit... yeah right! Haha. 

You just have to live your life. You can't just mope around and be sad all the time. Write him a lot. I wrote my hubby every day when he was at boot camp. Its always exciting getting his letters too. Looking back 3 months seems like nothing after going through 2 deployments that were a year and then seven months. Of each though, boot camp was the hardest! I think I had such a hard time because it was the first time we were ever away from each other. 

Shut up!!! OMG I didn't know that! Omg I don't know what to do now. I feel like my world is falling apart. He'll be so close! Can't I just sneak in? I have never gone a day without him the entire time we've been together! 

Shut up!!! OMG I didn't know that! Omg I don't know what to do now. I feel like my world is falling apart. He'll be so close! Can't I just sneak in? I have never gone a day without him the entire time we've been together! 


Sneak in? Only if you want to wind up in jail!

It's hard, we've all been through it. Just take up a hobby and write him a lot of letters. 

Can't I just sneak in?

Sure, if you want to be detained by the military police. 

You will not see him at all in boot camp until he graduates. And no, haha its not possible to "sneak" in. If you think this will be hard wait until your first deployment! Boot camp will look like a piece of cake! Being with ANYONE in the military you have to deal with the fact that you will not see them all the time. Also, he still has MOS school after boot camp....and if it's east coast you wont see him much until holidays. 

Shut up!!! OMG I didn't know that! Omg I don't know what to do now. I feel like my world is falling apart. He'll be so close! Can't I just sneak in? I have never gone a day without him the entire time we've been together!

Yikes.. we have all been through it.. what are you going to do when he is in the field (so close yet you cant see him) or a 7 month- 1 year deployment..

And its NOT just boot camp there is MOS school so you will be looking at a while before you see him.. my husband from Boot Camp to MOS was gone almost a Year.

Good Luck :) 

I have never gone a day without him the entire time we've been together!

You might not be able to handle being a Marine wife then. 

I felt like my world was falling apart too. It was so devastating, honestly I cried for like a week straight...lol. Now when he's deployed I look back and think, wow, that was nothing compared to this! 

Omg I cannot stop crying. I can't believe he won't even have a phone! They even let prisoners have phones!!! And what is mos school? I know hr might deploy someday but he said he could just get international service on his cell so he could call me all the time? 

Omg I cannot stop crying

Wait until he deploys for a year! 

he said he could just get international service on his cell so he could call me all the time?

UMM wrong? He can NOT call you .. and if he wants to "try" he will get in deep deep trouble. And i am sure once he starts Boot Camp he will not even want to try and get in trouble LOL

They even let prisoners have phones!!!

REALLY?!?! LMAO Two TOTALLY different things there sweetheart!!! 

They don't let them take their cells on deployments... 

Marci94 are you like 17? 

When he becomes a Marine, he'll have a certain job. MOS school is additional training or schooling after boot camp depending on what his job is. The length and location of the school depends on what job it is. For example, my husband is an intel analyst and he did his schooling in Virginia. I think it was around 4 or 5 months long..can't really remember. During MOS school he might have a lot more freedom to call you though. 

MOS is preparing him for his job learning what he needs to know to do his job 

During MOS school he might have a lot more freedom to call you though

Or go out to the clubs *giggle* 

Marci94 are you like 17?

Right?!?1 LOL i was just about to ask that same thing.. 

During deployments they will get morale calls every so often. Depending on his job he might get to call you more often than other Marines get to call home. My husband called me every day when he was in Iraq. He had constant access to a phone center. Other Marines might not. 

This is a joke.....right?? Lol!
Just keep yourself busy. You'll survive =0) 

i was just about to ask that same thing..

Not only is the overuse of "like" but the year next to her name. LOL 

They don't let them take their cells on deployments... 

They can take them, they just won't be using them. 

When my husband deployed (for a year) I HARDLY got to talk to him at all! MOS school is the training they have to go through to learn their job they signed up for. It can be long or short. Depending on what his MOS is it can be 3 months or in some cases almost a year. (A friend was in Pensacola for a year with hers) 

If you want to break in and see him, do it during team week.

Have him try to get on the permanent personnel chow hall. If he can, there is a fence that runs right behind it along next to the I-5 interstate. You can try and jump there, and sneak and see him while he is working at the chowhall.

When I was in bootcamp, I dreamed of jumping this exact spot many times.

Be a lot easier to get in, than out, I always thought. 

Not only is the overuse of "like" but the year next to her name. LOL

Yeah and the word use of "OMG" LOL 

Or go out to the clubs *giggle* 

That too. My husband loved clubbing in VA beach. 

Be a lot easier to get in, than out, I always thought.

LMAO!!! 

Okay, i just have to ask...

Marci.. how old are ya?