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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 mother always on December 5, 2013 at 9:14am: Good morning

My son will be leaving next week,the phone num he has,or nobody answers or is occupied...the person he will be releaving is not at that base already...Do somebody has a phone num for the base where they receive the new sailors,please.My email is rosa.sntg@gmail.COM

Thank you for any info.

Nice day all!!

Comment by paces on December 5, 2013 at 6:24am: Good morning. Our son was told to bring it with, but that was nearly 3 years ago.. things may have changed since then .

Comment by sacsocmom on December 5, 2013 at 3:03am: B-Ready,
My daughter is in Texas in A school and she asked for it when she got there. She will be going to C school this month in Mississippi then to Norfolk, so it will be a couple of months before she go anywhere , hope this helps

Comment by Primula Topleaf on December 3, 2013 at 10:00am: When my son flew out of Norfolk, he said they are bused over to the terminal. They have a USO there to hang out and wait at till they board the plane. If he is leaving at 1130 or so tonight you should except a Facebook message from him sometime late Thursday night. My son has adjusted to being over there. I hope this helps.

Comment by mother always on December 3, 2013 at 9:45am: Good morning

Thank you again,Liv.I am asking when he get to Norfolk,if he has to go somewhere else or is from this airport that he goes out...I know he will know what to do or go;I just wanted to collect some info to help him...He knows that there in Bahrain the person he is suppose to relieve,she left last month,this morning he was calling some tel numbers he has,he has one of those worldwide pre paid cards,phone sounded ocupied...

Comment by LivNLrn on December 2, 2013 at 1:58pm: mother_always Every person's situation is different on arrival. Your son should be assigned a sponsor to pick him up at the airport and take him where he needs to be. And/or, he should be checking in with his command as per instructions on his orders. At the very least, he should have an email or phone number of someone in the command to call on that can tell him what he needs to do next. Are you asking because he does not know who his sponsor is or how to reach his command for further instruction?

Comment by mother always on December 2, 2013 at 9:41am: Good morning

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

So this means that he don't have to leave this airport?

Comment by paces on December 1, 2013 at 8:06pm: Good evening, everyone. It has been a while since I have been here. Been busy with school and life. Welcome, new comers. It is an awesome group to be a member of. I couldn't have made it these last two years without this wonderful group of ladies and gentlemen. Our sailor is looking at six more months and then hopefully, stateside. Counting down the days already.

When he arrived at Norfolk, he checked in and went straight to the plane. He was only there a couple of hours before he left.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was sort of lonesome around our house. Our middle son wasn't able to come home, so it was just the three of us. Our 14 year old is really missing her brothers. I think it is harder on her than it is on us.

Have a great evening and wishing everyone a wonderful week.

Comment by mother always on December 1, 2013 at 4:24pm: Good afternoon

Thank you for answering LivNLrn. My son got his passport,he showed to me and he got his orders...wanted to know if he has to go to a military base,he says he knows where to go when he arrive at Norfolk.Right now he came to PR for the "hasta luego" time....

Comment by LivNLrn on December 1, 2013 at 1:55pm: Hi mother_always- That pretty much happened to my husband. But he needed a gov issued passport and credit card. Don't know if it will be the same in your son's situation or if he is flying commercial or AMC (gov plane). In my husband's case, he flew commercial. Before leaving, he received new orders, filled out all the passport/ cc paperwork and when admin office received each, they mailed them to the admin office overseas. Different offices & commands sometimes handle things differently and place different emphasis on procedures (although it is supposed to all be the same!)- sometimes it depends on how organized the superiors are!