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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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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)
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Discussion Forum
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Comment by Miss Suzanne on January 14, 2012 at 3:50am
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My Michael got his dog today - a Dutch Shepard named Nora. He's really excited to start training with her.
He is now officially a "chew toy"! lol!
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Comment by chriscwick on January 13, 2012 at 7:53pm
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I think "spell check" & "grammar check" can sometimes make this grammarian & not too shabby speller talk to the dust bunnies under the frigidaire!
Glad Cooper (my maiden name) is on property. Don't feel like the Lone Ranger 'bout the crying. Alex & I sobbed before, during & after our farewell. Got so bad we pulled off 85/40 in NC. Cried & cried. I'm still in waterproof mascara & eye liner. This summer's leave was almost as bad & he may stay a third year to get K9.
"Keep the faith, Keep Calm & Carry On", & It's All Good" is the mantra. And we're here to listen.....
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Comment by Nancy Cooper's Mom on January 13, 2012 at 7:23pm
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Do not know why this iPad fixed cried to cryer- oh well!
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Hi! Cooper safe and sound on Base in Bahrain. I was so glad to hear his voice! I cryer like a one year old in public when he called to say he was at the airport! The whole thing- mouth wide, head shaking back and forth! Loud weeping- saying "Promise me you will call right away!!!". "Promise me!"- hand over mouth crying and crying. That really caught me off guard, I haven't cryer like that in a decade or more. I am always the tough one. My friends in the class likely thought my family had all perished? I left immediately and went home and all but sat with the house phone, the cell phone and the computer on in front of me. Of course the very moment I got in the car and on the road he called with all info. I pulled over and wrote it all down. He called again this morning. He sounds great, sponsor very nice and helpful! Thank you whoever you are. Nso here we are in the next phase. He is there. He is where he wants to be. Good!! Thank you everyone!!
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Oh! Yes, the guys look so handsome.
DD - is most definately a shrewed shopper, looking to the future!
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Got a FB message from Chris, he was at a going away brunch for someone, he didn't say who. Apparently a good time was being bad by all.
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Poor guys. My Chris will be jacked up emotionally. This may be the make or break for his getting to be a handler. Yes, YIKES!!
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Comment by Mom2aSailor on January 11, 2012 at 11:52am
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Christine.. WOW.. nice! :)
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Alex & I call it "dangling". But, boy, when u hear his special ringtone, everything else in your world fades to the background & all is good.
Man, talk about co-dependent, whew! Yep, that's us!!
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Oh Boy, waiting to hear is bad! Watching the phone both home and cell and email. Feels like Boot Camp again! I guess this just goes on and on until leave.
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