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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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DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!
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Discussion Forum
Looking for advice from DCs
Started by locogirlp. Last reply by Dee Jan 21, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
A school then onto Japan for DC
Started by Adam's Mom.. Last reply by Dee Jun 27, 2013. 9 Replies 0 Likes
DC after BC
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Comment by Calirose on October 19, 2012 at 9:55pm
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Thanks for the replies everyone. Work week got busy and I was too tired to get back to anyone. I did just get a letter from my SR and he said his DC A school was for three months, is that correct or is it longer for him because of the holidays?
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on October 18, 2012 at 7:02am
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Calirose - Yes, Katie is happy with her rate of DC. Actually, it is hard to believe that she has already been in the Navy for 4 years! I don't know how common it is for the sailors to be sent to Japan - but as you have probably heard, they send them where they NEED them!
While in Japan Katie kept in great contact with emails. She would call occasionally, but didn't skype - that just wasn't her thing. Katie was home for Christmas or New Year's each year. We (my youngest son and I) were also able to go over during the summer of 2012 for a "Gator Cruise" and took a trip from Sasebo->Yokosuka on a 4 day/3 night cruise!
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MarianneKT's Mom, thanks for the reply. How is you daughter liking DC? Is Japan a pretty common place for a new DC to go? That had to be hard to have her so far away..... don't even want to think about that right now, boot camp will seem like cake next to that (at least for me)
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Hello Calirose - My daughter PIRd on 12/5/08 and then had a break over Christmas and came home. Classes really didn't start for her until January and then she was done by the end of March. By April 23rd she was off to Sasebo japan for 3+ years.
So, I would say there is some kind of break at Thanksgiving, but she was at BC at that time and was adopted for the afternoon.
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Can someone tell me how long A school is for Damage Control, my SR will PIR on 11/9/12. Also do they have any breaks in school during the thanksgiving or christmas holidays? Are they usually placed on ship right out of DC school? Thanks so much, glad this group is here so I can pick your brains.
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Welcome joirenee! My daughter has been a DC for a while. She has already servied 3 years in Japan and now is out of Norfolk.
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Comment by joirenee on October 17, 2012 at 11:09am
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Hi!
My son recently transferred to Great Lakes for Damage Control school from Groton, CT submarines.(Orginially entered as a ET Communicator but could not get thru the TECHNO class) He is there for the various classes and A school and should be done around November 6th. Thanks for having a group I can listen to and chat with about this awesome profession!
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Comment by slapout52 on August 7, 2012 at 9:00pm
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My DC is deployed. I found out after the fact that for 2 weeks he was SIQ with pneumonia! He wasn't sick when they left . . . How do you get pneumonia in the Meditterranean for heaven's sake? He's recovered but he missed the liberty calls :(.
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DO Diva...where to? My daughter's first duty was in Sasebo Japan!
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Maggs you make me count my blessings! I guess we are lucky living in the info age . . . If we can get a signal, as you say. I don't know how these next 9 months will go. I only know for sure that letters and care packages will go out his way. Thank you so much for reading.
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