can any recent DEPOT graduates give a member, who's leaving in about a month, any advice?

my main questions are:

1. What do I bring with me to Cape May?
2. Is there anything I need to study before I go?
3. How and when did you recieve your pay?
and lastly,
4. When did you get IDs and other documents for dependants?

Thanks! any and all information would be much appreciated.

R3,

R3 - check out the Helmsman for what to bring. Also this link (http://www.uscg.mil/hq/capemay/Trai...chool.asp) gives you all the info you need. You're probably already rated right? So presumably you have skill's that the CG wants. The basic studies are all learned on base - training for your rate begins after that. ID's and all other documents are processed when you arrive.

I haven't gone yet (10-JUL is my ship date), but I've done a lot of research so I'm as prepared as I can be.

Hope this helps.