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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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"Home for A Holiday by the Blue Candle Moms!"
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Of all the gifts that we've received over many years. The gift of having our Sailor home for the holidays, is the gift we hold most dear.
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com
Location: "HOME"
Members: 15
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
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Home for the Holidays by the Blue Candle Moms
Every Sailor, Every mom will have a unity group to grow with...Wherever our Sailors are, whatever their school is and no matter past ,present or future service. We will all continue to look forward to any "Holiday" with our Sailor. When they aren't there, we will light blue candles for them...I love each and everyone of you.... Your Sailors, Past, Present and Future !
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Comment by Susan mom to Niko on January 13, 2009 at 2:50pm
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Kell,
I feel the same about our candle! It stays lit in the kitchen while I am up... my sons girlfriend started to blow it out the other day. Just a reflex as I had finished the dishes and was turning out the light to go into the other room. Guess I better look for a blue light bulb candle...
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Comment by Storymom on January 11, 2009 at 6:21pm
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Sheila Clark.....awesome story!
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Barbara, Wow, very nice!
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I'd like to make a suggestion to those of you having trouble finding blue candles in your area in the retail stores. (someone posted that, I think?) I've found a great supply of blue candles in 2nd hand stores, thrift stores, etc. Amazingly, really nice, pillar-type candles and a few tapers.
Today, I found sweet little light-blue votives in a baggie for 60 cents!!
I also found a Dark Blue glass votive holder for 59 cents and it was like new.
(I am so delighted when I find these things!)
I am so surprised at how many BLUE candles I find in these stores.
Anyway, if you don't mind shopping in "gently used' stores, its a great resource when the retail stores are out of stock.
( I posted this on the Blue Candle Group too)
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Thank you Kell! I love coming to the site and being filled with the kind words the N4M's offer to one another. So uplifting!
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Blue, always blue for Navy!! :)
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Alicia: Wow, that is wonderful...what a reunion that must be...Texas does it good!
Tammy: You ARE an ANGEL
Ingrid: nice blue candle, and handsome son!
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Merry Christmas to one and all! May your New Year be full of family and fun and many, many wonderful moments that will become memories that will warm you in days and years ahead!
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Go for It! Valentine's Day, then Easter, then Spring break, then Memorial Day, then Mother's Day and Father's Day...oh my....Just be sure to bring it back next Christmas...I love the songs and the pictures...so comforting. Nothing like pretty ornaments and Christmas Candles!
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Kell,
Thanks for listing 'Candle in the Window'.....Our Blue Candle will be burning tomorrow in Seattle....our tired Sailor is home after an exhausting 3-day ordeal with United Airlines, and finally having to drive 300 miles over the snowy mountains, thru the night with 4 other stranded passengers...he thankfully arrived before daybreak Monday, still in his uniform! First thing he wanted to do was get his uniform to a dry cleaners and clean up his dress shoes!
Bless all Sailors at home or away...how we wish all could be with loved ones this Christmas.
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