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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
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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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PIR 8/21 Alumni
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Alumni families of 8/21, lets keep in touch and share this journey together. Our Sailors may be going to different places and have different carrers, but we will always share one thing in common, the PIR date of 8/21
Members: 101
Latest Activity: Mar 27, 2015
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Comment by Tee-1sailor's mom on March 27, 2015 at 11:41am
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I hear there Vicky. Some of the mom's from this group are probably not Navy Mom's anymore. For the foreseeable future, I will be.
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Comment by Vickyrun on February 24, 2015 at 5:24pm
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Hi all, Today is Chrissy's 30th Birthday. We have been Navy Moms for almost 6 years. Missing birthdays and holidays is still the hardest for me.
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It's been three years since my son left for Boot Camp. It's amazing how much has happened in his life in those years. I remember finding this group and checking in many times during the day. You all got me through those hard weeks. Thank you! I hope all of your families are doing well.
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Good morning, I am a Happy Mom today! I got to IM Chrissy last night and it was morning her time, so I got to say Happy Birthday on her birthday morning. She is 27 years old now. I was crying tears of joy. Good thing it wasn't skype. She hates to see me cry. But I am happy. I was on FB hoping she would come on and she did! She liked the video I sent her and the pic. Then I lost her, but that happens.
Thank God for FB. Maybe I can survive the rest of this deployment now.
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Thank You bondsmom, (a little late but no one has posted in a long time!)
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Hi everyone, I'm back from FL where I had the great honor of seeing my son graduate and become a Petty Officer Third Class. He's now an official Aircrew Operator, Acoustic. It was wonderful to be there and spend time with him. His father and wife, my daughter and granddaugther and Navy Mom friend and her husband were there to share it with me. He's off on leave with a buddy taking an Amtrack trip up the East Coast.
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Amen sister
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Bondsmom, I certainly hope they put him under a doctor's care when he gets back. Prayers for you and for him going up. The only way I make it day to day is to "give it up to God" and have faith that He has control, because I sure don't.....and I don't think anyone else does either. There's strength in our numbers, supporting each other, even over cyberspace.
((((((BIG HUGS))))))
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Bondsmom, I'm praying for a speedy recovery for your son. How hard to leave him still recovering! Vicky, I know it's been rough with Chrissy too. Rachel, I don't quite a few with Sailors in Japan. It feels like the world is turned upside down in a week:( May God keep them all safe and help the people of Japan to begin to rebuild....and contain those reactors.
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Good advice Tee, I've been having the same problem w/ Chrissy.
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