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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 chriscwick on July 11, 2013 at 10:17am: Apologizing ahead of time for being obnoxious.

OMG, heart is racing. No thump, thump, thump, just a steady bbbbbzzzzzzzzz! He's getting ready to board. GF says he's a hot mess, he's so excited! Alex & I vacillate between tears & maniacal grinning.

Comment by paces on July 10, 2013 at 7:53pm: Congrats, chriswick. We are ready for the Bahrain mama goodbye boogie. Welcome navymomdiv931.

Comment by chriscwick on July 10, 2013 at 4:55pm: Welcome aboard! What is his rate? You will love this page & these wonderful ladies & guys.

Keep limbering up to do the Bahrain mama goodbye boogie, he's got his flight itinerary! He, soon, will no longer be a "sand sailor". Chris had to say goodbye to his fur-ball, Villain. He's jerking the new handler's chain though. Villain still feels that Chris is his "daddy" & pays more attention to him. Chris will very much miss all the furry friends, but Ms. Bubba, Grim, Villain, Leo & Cherry will always have his heart. in the cases of Leo & Cherry, they'll also have some chunks of DNA! They are the main reasons he got his Kennel Nickname of "chew toy"!!

We got some huge boxes from the sand this week! He handled his electronics himself, hence the boxes. His flat was packed up & he's bunking with a buddy till his flight this week. He's communicated more in the last week than the three years in the sand! We entertained the GF over the weekend. She'll get him first. He'll get a nights sleep & a much needed (18 hr. flight) shower & then they will drive down together & spend their leave with us.

Comment by NavyMomDiv931 on July 10, 2013 at 4:25pm: My son will be coming to Bahrain after graduation mid August. He is very excited!!! I thought I would join this group for some useful information & helpful advice.

Comment by paces on July 6, 2013 at 6:53pm: Thank you . I am a very proud mama. He is going to Pikeville University of Medicine and Osteopathic Medical School. He applied to the Air Force, but was denied because of surgery on his ankles when he was a teen. We are disappointed but he will be fine. He has worked for this. 4 more years and we will have a doctor.

Looks like we may get a visit from our JP soon. It has been so long. Good luck to all our sailors.

Comment by ChrisyDVM(Chris'sMom) on July 6, 2013 at 12:12pm: chriscwick, go to www.google.com/alert and put it whatever you want to be alerted about across the globe. I get daily alerts if there is anything newsworthy that day. No pics of Chris yet but he has posted some more pics of Bahrain and his hotel and sent an email w/ links to news articles about the arrival of 3 more PCs and a cool time-lapse video of the PC's being offloaded from the transport ship into the Persian Gulf waters. Some of the articles I'd already read thanks to Google.

paces, is Wesley going to UK? I did my Animal Sci/PreVet BS there. A great school; just loved it there. They have an excellent med school. Best wishes to him wherever he's going; you have much to celebrate!

Comment by chriscwick on July 6, 2013 at 11:03am: Medical school, best of luck to the future medical man! Wonderful. You must be so proud of your brood.

Comment by paces on July 6, 2013 at 10:21am: Hi everyone. Haven't been here in a while. Trying to get Wesley ready for medical school. He leaves next Friday for Kentucky . Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th. Welcome to all our newcomers. Great to have you join us. You won't find a better group for support and encouragement.

Comment by chriscwick on July 5, 2013 at 4:22pm: Hey y'all. Hope everyone had a safe 4th!

Welcome aboard TenaciousDee!

Chrisy - hope you get you "Kid on or with a camel" pic soon. Been waiting 3years for mine, lol

How does one squire Google Alerts? Am not the most tech savvy!

Comment by ChrisyDVM(Chris'sMom) on July 4, 2013 at 11:56pm: Hi everyone. Hope everyone had a nice 4th. These patriotic holidays always make me miss my son more. I wanted to let everyone know about google alerts in case you weren't aware of them. You can request alerts on anything. Currently I have alerts for his ship and Bahrain. Yesterday, I got alerts for 4 articles covering the arrival of the PCs yesterday. They were interesting reads and even had pics. So amazing that such a huge ship exists that carried these 3 PCs from Norfolk to Bahrain in 37 days! My son also posted pics on FB of the ships and the hotel he's staying in, which is amazingly beautiful. He also had pics of various sights in Bahrain. Of course NO pics of him!