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Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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Bahrain Moms
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If you have a son or daughter in Bahrain or going to Bahrain heres the group for you!!!!!!
Members: 402
Latest Activity: Feb 26, 2024
I have many moms asking me, hows life in Bahrain? So I thought I would put a few things together, post it and update, make corrections as I remember something. Well aside from the very hot sun, nice beaches,museums,malls on and off base,the sand storms , which reak havoc on the weapons some carry :). Here are a few thing that might help.
New Arrivals
1. 2 or 3 weeks of training and classes to learn Bahrain customs,laws and the Navys do's & don't's
2. Not allowed off base til the training is complete.
3. No family housing. Non military persons were removed after 9/11. ("09" spouses allowed back )
4. Lower rank personal(I'll check the rank) must live on base in barricks. Others live off base in rental units.
Duty
1. Shifts are 12 hours long.
2. No uniforms are to be worn off base at any time only civ's (civilian cloths)
3. Unlike the States, there week is Sunday - Thursday weekend is Friday and Saturday.
Misc.
1.They buy cell phones on base at the mall or Nex. They can call you for about 10 cents and send texts for 10 cent per text. (Tho in Bahrain they go by BD'S Bahrain Dollars).
NOTE: They CAN NOT text to some cell phone services. The ones I know are Nextel,Verizon and Sprint.
2. Everything they need can be bought on base at the mall or Nex. Even computers,tv's, music,movies .....everything......
3. Drinking: 18 is the legal drinking age in Bahrain on and off base.This goes for the military personal also with one Navy rule in order to buy/drink liquor or whiskey you must be 21, but at 18 they can consume/purchase beer and wine.
1. They have a on base post office. Which is closed I belive on Monday's.
2. On packages/letters you send DO NOT write Bahrain,middle east or Manama anywhere on the outside of the mail. This may make it arrive to the town P.O.(Manama) instead of onbase. The military ships its own mail but if it does not arrive to the state side base to be shipped to your sailor than its put on a internatial mail flight and sent to the town P.O. Your sailor will have a p.o. box with a FPO address on base only use the address he/she gives you and your return address. It will look something like this.
*Rank Name*
PSC ??? Box ???
FPO AE 09840-2800
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/home.asp
http://www.bahraintribune.com/index.asp
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/bahrain/index.htm (This one is the base news)
Sailors on a Liberty Tour
Discussion Forum
re:Son going to Bahrain - I have so many questions!!!!
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Comment by JosephsWifey on December 15, 2012 at 11:20am
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My husband is headed back to Bahrain now after a few great weeks of leave! Please pray for his safe flight back :) We also somehow managed to get pregnant right when he got here- were having another baby! Only 20 months apart from my son, im due in august! Also, we found out he will most likely be getting out of the Navy now due to a few people messing up on paperwork....so he will be home in about 2.5-3 months!!!! Thank GOD for those people who messed up because we are ready to have him home for good.
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Comment by chriscwick on December 13, 2012 at 11:51am
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iPhone text can be free. Enable iMessage in your settings. The lack of phone calls or missing calls can drive us nuts! My ringtone for Secret squirrel sounds like a WWI battle ship's claxon!
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Comment by SierrasMom (Bahrain on December 13, 2012 at 11:34am
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Annie- I'm not sure of the exact date but it will be the end of January.
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Comment by Annie on December 13, 2012 at 7:57am
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Sorry for using the 'd' word, I should have said 'if something happened'. :( HoustonTxMom remember you need a smart phone too with WhatsApp on it. Apparently it works the best over there. Plus it's full of Emoticons:)
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Comment by HoustonTXMom on December 13, 2012 at 7:04am
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Annie,,,I will ask him ito do this. Thanks.
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Good idea on distinctive ringtone! Thank you doenglish
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Sierra's Mom: our daughter is an MA also:) When will your daughter deploy?
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Oh the agony of waiting, how well we all know it! Our worst horror story was waiting FIVE WEEKS for her FIRST phone call from boot camp! I suffered the torments of hell. My sons (ex Navy) kept comforting me by telling me that if she was dead someone would call me. THANKYOU for that, sheesh! Tell your son to put WHATSAPP on his phone and text you. Let him know you need to hear from him!
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Comment by doenglish on December 13, 2012 at 6:53am
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Good news..the Vernors made it safe and sound. I was so worried there would be a carbonated explosion on the cargo plane ruining other's gifts.
Houstonmom...we have the same problem. Our son does not Skype, and he hates talking on the phone. This week he tried to call my husband three times before my husband got the call. One thing that we did was set our ring tone to be different from a general call, but as you can see it doesn't always work out how we think. Good luck.
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Do most of you Skype with your sailor? I ask because I still am upset from noon today when I missed our son's phone call! We haven't spoken in weeks, and then to miss his call today had/has me in tears. I send emails, but there's nothing like a good phone call. I tried to call him back 15 minutes after the missed call, but for some reason my calls don't get through. He voicemail was brief, he sounded tired, and I am grateful to hear his coice and know he's alive. He's a junior officer who is studying for his first year required certification, has watch every third night, and is 1st LT of the deck and Weapons Officer. I know that he 's probably max'd our. We have sent 4 pkgs starting Thanksgiving week and he has not said he received any. Bummer...just so sad to have missed his call. Any ideas about how not to miss a call from Bahrain? (my phone was on silent due to a business meeting, and I was late taking it off silent)
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