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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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!!!!
Started by julie(Shane's Mom). Last reply by DiG Jul 13, 2018. 15 Replies 1 Like
Our son has moved on ...
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Comment by JosephsWifey on September 29, 2012 at 1:20am
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Oops that was supposed to say he's a "gamer"
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Oh lol my husband doesn't go to the clubs and bars buuutttt he's a 'game's so he spends a lot of time in his room on his off days lol. Do you know what section he's in? As far as what I know about their work life-changing they stand watches at different towers and places....there are other guys at the gate (not MA's) so our husbands aren't standing at the main gate entrance to base. I visited from June-july for a month and its a pretty cool place if you keep an open mind :) If you get a chance you should visit your husband a couple times while he's there! (Just not in the summer like I did because its sooooooooo hot....)
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Hi Maria....my husband is also an MA in Bahrain right now....he's been there a year and we still have 6 months or so to go. Are you asking what do they typically do as far as work goes?
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Comment by chriscwick on September 26, 2012 at 5:55am
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Hence, the "Gary Cooper" nickname.
"Yup"!
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Comment by Mom2aSailor on September 25, 2012 at 10:35pm
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Chriswick.. HUGS!! I told my girl that a son of a mom on here (she doesn't know anyone that is on here) hasn't communicated in 3 months.. and she said "I'll be dead!" I said.."Yes, I would kill you!" She responded, "Yes, that is what I mean!" She's a girl tho, more communicative!! Men.. not so much!
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We have WhatsApp, HE got us to get IT so we could communicate for free! No improvement, didn't work.
He has an iPhone now and we have iMessage which doesn't impact his texting money, he just doesn't communicate. With how I run my yap I wonder where he gets the quiet from!!!!! lol
I just hope it doesn't bite him in the butt like Leo & Cherry! I don't rag on him cuz then I may never hear from him! Don't do anything on our behalf. If he thought I was "talking out of school" he'd be livid. Just let me moan, groan & rant once in a while. I'll be good. I just get jealous of how wonderful you & your kids communicate. Sorry.
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It's all good, keeps me busy! Both school & "Secret Squirrel".
The third grade I'm in is very cohesive & busy, busy. Keeps me moving & pooped. Not looking forward to it ending in late October. More time to think, not good. Hope some jobs open up! In the meantime, am formulating another Halloween pkg for "his lordship" to share. Don't know an address direct to the Kennel...
Got a birthday in October. Hopeful things let up a bit & I get a phone call from the sand. (Alex got a brief text for his) It is what it is. We laugh that, "How dare he grow up, run off, join up & get his own life!" Sometimes I wish I could. You know, get a life. What a wussy.
Am gonna quit dwelling & swab the deck (literally)! Feel like eating out there this evening! Have a great Sunday everyone!
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Comment by paces on September 23, 2012 at 10:03am
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Chriscwick... Wow. Prayers to you. How is school going?
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Yep! Guess y'all thought I was teasing when I nicknamed him; "Gary Cooper (strong, silent type, workaholic), Secret Squirrel (everything is a State secret), & The Phantom" (brief contact, then fades into the shadows)!!!!
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Chriswick, are you serious? I talk to my girl almost every day, via fb chat or email. That would make me upset! :( sorry!!
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