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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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.
Members: 836
Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2024
Discussion Forum
Anybody out there?
Started by Jules. Last reply by Bandmom Aug 24, 2021. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Current A school at GL for AECF?
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Anyone graduating A school on 10/26/18
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Comment by Anti M on February 17, 2009 at 6:00pm
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I was in my rack, intelchips! They didn't physically hurt her and were very careful not to scrub any, er, lady bits. Mostly just her armpits to get their point across. So the yoeman told me later, over on the NTC side of Orlando. I didn't see a thing, and not one of us was going to tell the Company Commander. Honest!
Hey, bread and water, that's New Age cleansing!
Take a group of motivated young people, get them to working as a cohesive unit, and train them to be problem solvers, throw in the reluctance to snitch, take away a few privileges because of one dimwit ... the sailors will find a way to take care of matters themselves. Some use better judgment than others. The point is not to hurt the straggler, but to re-educate them. Blanket parties will always be rumors. No one will truly admit to being present.
You should hear the WWII stories my dad tells about thieves aboard ships. yikes.
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on February 17, 2009 at 5:38pm
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LOL -------------------- bent up frustrations!
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... if any of that happens these days, which it does not.
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well, Intelchips, I guess I was describing the shore duty version... blanket over the head and sometimes into the gear locker for privacy. A bulkhead shouldn't slow down a sailor, hmm?
In bootcamp, we got a setback who would not shower. She STANK. One night the RCPO and the platoon leaders (section leaders) took her into the showers after lights out and proceeded to scrub her with the big floor scrub brushes. She hollered bloody blue murder, but she did shower after that. That's about the worst I saw firsthand. and no, she did not graduate with us, she truly couldn't get the hang of following orders.
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Karla, tell him it does not matter how he entered BC, it's all about where he is going, he is in a great rate and he is going to a good place :-D. He'll be fine, it may just take him a little longer to earn his crow but he will get there just like everyone else.
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OMG Intelchips! Nope NONE of this stuff happens in today's Navy!
Anti M - I remember being SO very pg with Nick and walking into that dry cleaners, I missed a step and landed on my knees and just sat there and cried, my hands and knees were all scuffed up and bleeding someone came out and tried to offer help - they thought I was hurt. I was just tired of being SO pg! lol We married in 85...I didn't want to .......rush into anything!
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I've never seen MyLarry without a mustache. When he retired, he quit shaving that day and has never looked back. I met him on Diego Garcia in 86 when I had just turned 30. We married in 87.
No doubt we crossed paths at some time! I worked at the dry cleaners briefly after I got out, then became a substitute teacher at Kinnick for seven years. Loved that!
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I met Steve when he was all of 16 years old, now we did not marry until he was 30...(I'm slow at commitments!!) and when the policy changed for clean faces, I CRIED...I never knew him with out a beard ---- he had a full beard at 16 yrs. old! For those "old enough" he was Cat Stevens twin, had the long curly dark hair as well. We left Yoko in 91 -wanted the family to know who Nick was, travel to/from Japan was very expensive then ...too.
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My hubby had to shave off his beard shortly before I met him. I enlisted in 1979, got out in 1989. Stayed in Yoko until 1995. Yeah, we're older than dirt.
I'm a just a few years short of being AARP eligible. Drat.
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not sure anti m but I do know we were probably passing each other on the base about the same time! I mean...I have photos with full beard of my sailor...does that tell ya anything?! lol
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