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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

Life in Bahrain
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.

Mail
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

U.S. NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY, Bahrain -- The Oklahoma City rock band "Hinder" peforms outside the NSA Bahrain's Freedom Souq June 22. The hundreds of attendees included service members assigned to NSA Bahrain and from visiting ships USS Peleliu (LHA-5), USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), USS Curts (FFG-38) and USS Dallas (SSN-700). The event was sponsored by the NSA Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson Bomjardim (Released)

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Comment by chriscwick on February 26, 2012 at 2:40pm: Suzanne - MA Chris says they are taught,

"One is none, two is one". Says it's good on & off duty.

I like it.

Comment by Miss Suzanne on February 26, 2012 at 12:42am: Whoa! Just got off the phone with my son, and he told me some guy - a civilian - was shot right outside the gates of his base! (This is not in Bahrain - my son is still at the air force base in TX until he graduates at the end of March) I wouldn't even have mentioned it, except that it made me really nervous! He basically walks/jogs everywhere - even to church. So i told him to try to use the buddy system until he's out of San Antonio! (Tho from what I've read, the buddy system is used in Bahrain, too.)

chriswick - thanks for the well wishes & the info!

Mary - Since I have no clue what an "EOD" is, I can't really say anything. I did, however, find out today that Michael's dog is not only used to detect bombs, but now he tells me that they're also going to be used as drug sniffing dogs! That kinda scares me, because of all the bloody and violent deaths that occur with smuggling drugs... *shudder*

Donna - congratulations on haveing your Sailor home! Do you find that you do a LOT of hugging and touching when he's home? I know I did... :-)
my son asked me to ask you ladies a question
How often are the K9 units deployed? And, when they're not deployed, what are they doing? (I.E. - are they doing guard duty, etc.) He's dying to know what's going to happen...

He's asked me twice now, so this time I came straight down to my computer to ask so I wouldn't forget again! ;)

Comment by JosephsWifey on February 25, 2012 at 12:44pm: Thank you Jill...I'm talking about him getting out of the Navy for good, early in August. His separation from the Navy is supposed to be in March, so if they won't let him out by August I think he has to stay in Bahrain away from us still until next March. Did your son write on his early out request that it was for education, or did he just do the EETP where he didn't have to put a reason? I think it would be great if my husband would get out and go to school, but it's a matter of getting him to get all of the stuff done :/ I totally hate this & I wish the Navy wasn't allowed to separate families for so long. If he can somehow get out by August though, that would be great! It would be 7 months early.

Comment by JosephsWifey on February 24, 2012 at 10:06pm: Has anyone had experience with their sailors doing the early out program from Bahrain? (EETP). My husband thinks that he will for sure get denied which will put him there for a whole extra year, which I don't think I can handle! But he said he was told by a friend that everyone who has tried is being denied there. :(

Comment by Jane-Adam's mom on February 24, 2012 at 12:25pm: My MA just got back in port, won't be off ship and on some R&R until tomorrow..

Comment by chriscwick on February 23, 2012 at 10:53pm: Be aware that we are at the whim of the NAVY. Chris has gotten leave, lost it, got it back and been delayed. Can drive an otherwise semi-sane woman completely nuts

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Comment by Mary...Brittsmom on February 23, 2012 at 4:04pm: I know that when my daughter was stateside she turned it in and was approved within 3 days, Each base is different. I would suggest getting it in as soon as possible.