Coast Guard Relationship Advice. Help me?

My girlfriend has just entered week 7 of USCG boot camp. Ironically, her first duty station is Station Cape May. I live in Virginia Beach, VA. So the drive up there, if you take the ferry, is about 4.5 hours. Im picking her up next Friday at her Graduation. She'll have 5 days leave, and I know you have the option to go 7 in the hole and take a total of 12 days leave, but to my knowledge, ive heard you cant do that anymore (can anyone confirm or deny that?). I don't mind making the drive up there a couple times a month, Im actually glad to do it. The problem is this: She will come out of boot camp as a non-rate. Her goal is to go YN, but the wait-list for YN A-school is 6 months or so. My question is, how am I going to plan trips up there when she'll most likely have duty on weekends? How far in advance will she know if she has duty on the weekends? She'll be staying in barracks so I'll have to stay in a hotel while Im visiting; will she be able to come stay with me in the hotel? ect. If anyone can answer these questions and also just give me some basic advice that would be very very helpful.


Im going to be joining the Coast Guard as soon as I can. Under my own accord, it has nothing to do with her going in. I catch a lot of flack when I tell people my girlfriend is in the Coast Guard and Im joining too. I get a lot of ';dont join just because she's joining! what if things dont work out.'; But please help!Coast Guard Relationship Advice. Help me?
Yes, she should be able to spend the nights in the hotel with you. Maybe sometimes even IF she has duty. Usually, she should know a minimum of at least two weeks in advance when she will have weekend duty.





From everything I've been able to find, her leave after boot camp, if any, will be limited to 5 days. She will have from 0001 hrs of the day after she graduates, sometimes with a ';cool'; company commander she'll get to leave shortly after the ceremony, up to 1159 hours of the day she is supposed to report to her first duty station. Unless otherwise specified in her orders.