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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
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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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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
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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Comment by chriscwick on January 31, 2011 at 9:24pm
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Hi all. Had sunny weather in high 60's Sunday. Took the little convertible out for looooong drive on the NC countryside. Had ankle biters (K) Saturday for a snow day make up. 5 stayed home, only had 18 in class! Got so mich done. Alex got his long call on Monday, I was to get mine over the weekend. Guess he got busy.
Chris was on the 4am shift, we'd get calls from him as he ironed around 2am his time. Makes me giggle, him ironing! Nah, it actually makes me smile & laugh out loud!
Hibiscus shot reminded me of FL, thanks! Hope all who were ill are on the
mend!
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Bleah! Snow day make up day on Saturday!
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Leta - were they on storage card in the camera? You can go to Target with it or the prints to make a CD! I'm seriously considering a digital frame for his MA-ness! Watching the sales!
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I was teaching PE Monday (ears still sore from the noisy gym) & missed Chris's call, grrr. Alex got to have a 57.5 minute talk with him! I'm green with envy. Have a "snow make up day" to teach Saturday, but am scheduled for a Skype with his MA-ness later that day. Haven't seen him since June 18th, 2010. Am so excited!!!! Keep fingers & toes crossed for me please?!
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<[:,)oO Brrrrrr! here in NC! Stay well & happy!
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Comment by trashline27 on January 21, 2011 at 6:26pm
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Although we have never met I feel like I know you all...thank you....you made me feel the way my other two kids should have made me feel ..UNDERSTOOD!!!...Thank you for being here when I needed a lift...will keep all of you and your wonderful devoted children in my thoughts and prayers!
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Thx.
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Yep, we're ALL sad cases, talk about "desparate housewives"! My ringtone for Chris is a WWII destroyers battle claxon (so I can hear it, no matter what other noise os on the room or outside) & the Navy Anthem. I add any phone number he calls us on to his phone contact list. Alex & I put his calls on speaker so neither of is mosses a chance to hear him. I told my principals that if my phone can't be on & audible, they should fire me cause I WON'T MISS A CALL FROM MY SON!!!!! I leave conferences, meetings, dinners. Everything stops when he calls....and I cry every time I get off the phone with him (as I am now), and I'm still wearing waterproof mascara (buy stock in it guys) Everyday I wear the active duty star & the locket with his photo. Yeah, I'm nuts....about the kid.
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Leta - dont feel so bad about being anxious to hear his vioce. Last night I became the butt of a few jokes in our house because I run to the phone whenever I think it is my son. I also will take his call in the car when driving which I do for no one else. We do get to talk on the phone every other night or so and I suppossedly ignore all that is going on around me when my son and I are on the phone. My other adult children were calling the phone the batphone and playing the theme to batman on their cell phones for all in the house to hear while imatating (did I spell that right?) me running to get the ringing phone. They were kidding with me saying I was obsessed and that menpause wasnt helping my crazy antics....I laughed along with them but my feelings were a little hurt. These two grown children live with me...one with her husband and her baby girl (who lights up my life) . I see them everyday which is a blessing but they do not understand the seperation anxiety over my youngest...oh well...I am right there with you Leta...I totally get it!
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He knows you love him, he's comforted by this knowledge. He'll really appreciate it when he has his own kids & remembers how much he is/was loved by you. I didn't know how hard it was to parent until I became one.
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