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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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 ...
Started by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke. Last reply by navymomds Dec 16, 2016. 1 Reply 1 Like
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Comment by Irene on November 15, 2015 at 3:24pm
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My daughter flew from Dallas to Norfolk on a commercial airlines, then waited there for a military flight to Bahrain. She was in Norfolk for about a week before her flight left.
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My son had his orders changed. Instead of going to Fort Jackson for a month, he will be going to Fort Bliss for additional training. That makes sense to me, because of a desert type of terrain. If he gets a weekend off during that time, Fort Bliss is just within one day of driving range from Austin where we could drive to Fort Bliss for a visit.
Do our sailors fly commercial to Bahrain? Being as he will be stationed at the IS Air base will he fly in there? He flies commercial when he has gone to Korea the past three summers.
Thanks
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My son is an E4 and is room in the barracks was empty / dirty waiting for him. One of the guys he works with is going to put in for him to have a place off base. At his last base he only had to share a bathroom. The barracks where he is has 2 beds. He did find lots of change there! Which he is going to end up spending to clean the room.
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My daughter says the base is very nice. Good food and good shopping. At first they stay in a hotel while they go through orientation. The hotels are nice but it is an immediate introduction into the Muslim world - which is a much easier place for men to blend into.
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My son called this afternoon through Facebook. It was a little choppy but he said he is exhausted from travels and trying to catch up on sleep. He said the base is nice but that's all I got. I'm sure they need time to acclamate. Don't I sound the like the voice of reason! I'll be freaking out around 2 this morning like last night!
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Karen93
My son left then also. I heard from him at every stop...Spain, Italy, Greece then Bahrain was about midnight Michigan time last night. He called today and said that he had to get a phone there for work. Apparently that phone doesn't connect to our cell phone because we need to have it set to receive international calls. We had set up an app on both our phones before he left so we could talk by WiFi. I hope that it helps knowing the plane arrived safely. My sailor is in a smaller unit, he has already met 2 of the guys he will be working with and they are going out Sat night on the town.
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Comment by navymom41 on November 12, 2015 at 6:52pm
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Hi Violet, Skype is good for video messaging but FB Messenger is easy to use for texting. Good luck to your son! I know it is difficult for you too.
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Comment by Violet on November 12, 2015 at 6:45pm
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Thanks for all the info!!!! My son leaves for Bahrain next month and I was wandering how we were going to communicate
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My son just arrived in Bahrain a few weeks ago and we found that Face Book Messenger is free so texting can be done with no charge with any WI-FI connection.
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Hi Karen, My daughter got an app for her phone called Viber that allows her to text from overseas. She was able to text us when she had layovers and when she finally got there - but the whole thing did take 2 days and she was exhausted when she arrived. We got a brief text saying she got in but then did not hear from her for almost a week. She caught up on sleep and was going through the initial orientation and training. Plus if your son has to live off base, he will have to spend time looking for an apartment. My daughter said she had to show proof that she looked at 6 apartments a week until she found something. So that is a time consuming process too.
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