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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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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.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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Duty Station NAS Oceana, VA Beach VA

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This group is for families who are stationed in Oceana or family members of sailors stationed at NAS Oceana.

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Comment by m'smom on August 26, 2011 at 1:51pm: Thanks for the links Holly. Any upbeat pics of us somewhere where we don't have to worry about our kids??!! I hear Key west is good! Maybe we should re-visit that one!

I am trying really hard to hold it together. Only cried once when talking to son. He sounds so serious about getting ready and taking care of his family! Hard to believe he has only been a sailor for a year! This is the anniversary weekend of his PIR! What a difference a year makes!

Comment by Proud AO Mom on August 26, 2011 at 1:45pm: I found this on the NAS Oceana website. Hurricane Irene Shelters

Comment by Proud AO Mom on August 26, 2011 at 1:34pm: Here's a link to a Virginia Beach surf cam I found. It's looks pretty nice right now.

http://www.goldkeyvacations.com/blog/live/obc3.asp

Comment by Proud AO Mom on August 26, 2011 at 1:32pm: The Red Cross sets up several shelters for them inland. They are taken by bus. If they are anything like the ones I've seen in TX and OK, they provide meals, water, internet, showers, cots, plug ins for cell phone chargers and some have telephones. Most even have facilities for pets. As they check in their name is posted on the Red Cross website for families to check. The hotels are probably full.

Comment by sjtina on August 26, 2011 at 1:21pm: I thought my son was going to come home, but he is afraid he wont be able to get back. Which is a good point, but he isnt telling that he has another place to go. Wher are the guys living on base going?

Comment by m'smom on August 26, 2011 at 12:54pm: CeeCee-Are all the sailors deployed? Do you have the address? We may be able to get someone to go by after and see if all is ok.

Just praying that it isn't as bad as the picture!!

My son spent the morning searching for a battery operated radio!! Final found one. I told him if he decided they should leave I would [ay for a hotel room for them. It is cheaper then a funeral. I wouldn't want them to stay because they don't have money for a room!

Comment by CeeCee on August 26, 2011 at 11:52am: OMG...there's nothing there!! Praying for all your sailors at Oceana. My son, fortunately, isn't there.....never thought I'd say, I'm glad he's deployed!!!! But his truck is parked in a garage at a house he rents with some other sailors, and they're not there.....and it's in Norfolk!!!

Comment by Proud AO Mom on August 26, 2011 at 11:46am: I'm trying not to have an anxiety attack about all this hurricane stuff but I wanted to share a picture with you about my last experience with a hurricane. The last time a hurricane made landfall on the mainland US was Hurricane Ike, Sept 13, 2008. In the top left corner was my mother's house before and in the lower left corner is the after.

Comment by sjtina on August 25, 2011 at 10:32pm: vatameri sounds like the standard emergency kit. lol

Comment by sjtina on August 25, 2011 at 3:14pm: I did get through to my son. I asked him if he had a place to go and he said yeah, home. Thats all I got for now