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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
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
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.
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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
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Comment by trashline27 on December 1, 2010 at 7:45pm
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How are you sending that box? It does sound kind of expensive? I think the one I sent was 19 lbs and I sent it priority through postal service. It was about 18.00 to send
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I just read the last few days comments. Leta my heart and prayers to you and to all of the other moms as the holidays approach. I felt terrible about the shredded wheat - that is not fair. I made it throught the holiday and the wedding in one piece with out Terence here but my heart ached an awful lot. I was alble to hold the phone up so he could hear the vows - lost connection once so had to redial in middle of ceremony - but he heard the I DO's. The night of the rehersal dinner he called and said he had woke up startled he was hearing bagpipes - he had a movie on - it brought him back to his grammas funeral and he lost it. He later sent me a text that was so moving I cryed for an hour. How are we going to do Christmas ladies? I heard I'll be home for Christmas and broke down again. Thank you for all being here..listening and sharing.
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Comment by chriscwick on November 29, 2010 at 9:42pm
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hi Leta and Coties mom...my son spent his first Thanksgiving away too....he worked all day until around ten but told me that they were served Thanksgiving dinner and it was very good. He told me one of his superiors actually drove plates of food to those around base so that they could eat and this man checked up on his people later at night...I was relieved and very happy for that. I said a special thanks for that Sailor when I went to sleep. My son also missed his older and only sister's wedding last night which hit him kind of hard.
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Nice holiday; good friends, food & conversation, but no calls from the sand. Not even a "Yup" from old "Gary Cooper"! I did get his mattress pad thingy stuffed in a box & sent. Had already sent his tree earlier in the week.
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Comment by pamdiv928(ship 06) on November 25, 2010 at 10:22pm
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Thank you Leta! I will try that.
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Does anyone know how to call their sailor on their cell phone? The operator told me to dial 011 first but that isn't working. I am trying to call my sons cell phone using my land line. Getting frustrated!
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I list everything. My writing of his address isn't kosher with exactly how they want it. I print recruit-style exactly how he gave it to me. No probs yet...
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Just mailed Chris's Xmas tree & started bawling....what a wus. One of my t
"thankfuls" is waterproof makeup. I'm a wus, but not stupid! ;{)
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I boxed up Chris's tree, ornament, snowman gel clings, a USB tree I found at Target & a letter to mail next week. Cried. Gonna be a tough first time. Thanks for being here.
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