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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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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Latest Activity: Feb 18

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Comment by Ellen on January 2, 2012 at 10:21am: Hi! My son will be PIR Feb. 10th. he is AECF but not sure about Fc or ET. Not knowing this yet can I determine where he will be going to A school. Tried to look it up if I'm not mistaken ( and I probably am LOL) he is going to A school in the Great Lakes?

Comment by duhhuh58 Ship 10/Div 267 on January 1, 2012 at 10:12pm: jackie,

how wonderful for you son! my sailors would have either cried (they're both girls) or yelled back, lol. guess your son got punked! CONGRATS!!!!

Comment by Navymom on January 1, 2012 at 4:28pm: Sandy's sailor son Talked to her on phone this morning. She told me that she was only social smoking. Hopefully she will wake up and realize it's not good for the PFA. Feel a little better today. I know she has changed a lot since she enlisted but Iknow she still has a long way to go. She has only been in 8 months and hopefully there will be good changes to come!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 1, 2012 at 2:40pm: togo and Ari'smom, my son started smoking after boot camp. Later he decided to stop. He told me he wants to be in good health and be able to pass his PFAs. He doesn't want his lungs all plugged up. After awhile most of them come to that conclusion.

Ari'smom, It is hard to estimate hold times. I will say this though. It is very likely that your daughter will be at Great Lakes until June 2012. My son is an FC and he was at Great Lakes from June 2010 to September 2011. FCs seem to be on hold for longer after (A)school.

Comment by Navymom on January 1, 2012 at 12:14pm: chew92 My daughter is also en ET and graduated boot camp on 6/19/11. So I should plan for her to be at GL until the middle of June. Can you tell me how long it took after A school until he knew where he was going for C school? Did he get what he put in for? Thanks

Comment by Navymom on January 1, 2012 at 12:11pm: togo I know what you mean about they will do what they want anyway.

She enlisted in the navy after 3 months of College without telling me. when I talked to the recruiter his reply was (she's an adult). So I am proud of her but she does do what she wants regardless.

Comment by togo on January 1, 2012 at 12:00pm: my son started smoking when he was in boot camp too. I have talked to him, etc. etc. but he will do what he wants I guess.

Comment by chew92 on January 1, 2012 at 11:57am: My son graduated boot camp 1/21/11 and will begin C school for ET this January 2012 in San Diego. He has been at GL since his bootcamp; came home to Northern California for the holidays as an E4 assigned to the USS Ashland in Norfolk, VA when C school is finished. I am proud. That's a long way from landing at O'Hare airport to report for bootcamp in his flip flops, Hawaiian shirt and shorts a year ago.

Comment by Navymom on January 1, 2012 at 10:32am: Sandy's sailor's son - Didn't get your friend request - so I tried to send you one and I don't know if it went through.
Anti M Thank you for the advice about smoking. She did say be home on my next hold time. But I don't think she really knows when she can come home. Thank you for the information. I was so happy to see her since she hadn't been home since April 26 that I didn't mention the smoking - but I will mention it to her on the phone now. It was hard saying goodbye again but like one of the mom's said not as bad as boot camp. Hope everyone has a Happy New Year and thank you to all our sailors and may they have a happy New Year.

Comment by Anti M on January 1, 2012 at 9:49am: I was an ET. Daily work in the fleet tends to be maintaining the gear, which is communications and radar systems; and of course, repairing the gear when it goes down. (I"m leaving out all the duty and shipboard tasks).

FCs learn weapons systems, and operate their systems, ETs are not operators. C schools can be varied, she might go to a system school, or a handful of schools for individual pieces of equipment. There's so may of these, I can't tell you where all the C schools are for ET.

Hey, a mom doe snot have to accept smoking, and never at her home. Give her hell, you're allowed.

That 30 days of leave, yes, they get them. They might not get them all at once, or when they want, and in the fleet, some have to carry the days over to year two before they get a chance to take them. Also, they don't always get to come home while on hold, that is on a case by case basis. Glakes use to never allow it, but the longer holds have changed that.