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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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IC Sailors
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This is a group for the family and friends of IC Sailors
Members: 94
Latest Activity: Mar 6, 2020
Interior Communications Electrician
Interior Communications Electricians (ICs) install, maintain and repair the equipment needed for interior communications within ships and shore facilities. These communication systems include public address systems, interior telephone systems, alarm systems, engine telegraphs to communicate orders for changes in engine speed from the bridge (ship's command station) to the engine room, certain kinds of ship control and equipment monitoring devices, the ship's gyrocompass, the rudder position indicator, audio-visual equipment for the ship's TV entertainment systems, advanced navigation and various other equipment.
The duties performed by IC's include:
Maintaining and repairing interior communications systems;
Preparing and interpreting blueprints, wiring diagrams and sketches;
Installing and inspecting dry cell and storage batteries;
Recharging wet cell batteries;
Testing interior communications and gyrocompass equipment;
Installing telephone and other communications circuits, boxes, switchboards and bell buzzer systems;
Maintaining plotters and dead reckoning equipment;
Maintaining and operating TV systems;
Working Environment :
People in the IC rating work in many different situations, at sea and ashore. While most of their work is performed indoors, it may be in a clean or dirty environment of a shop-like nature, and it may be in any kind of climate or temperature. IC's usually work closely with others. Most systems IC's work on is of the modern solid state electronic type, making the rating a very technical profession.
A-School Information:
Great Lakes, IL -- 10 weeks
Some Interior Communications Electricians who graduate from "A" school go on to advanced training courses such as gyrocompass and advanced TV maintenance. Others are assigned to duty stations where they can continue learning their rating through on-the-job training.
C-Schools (Advanced Specialized Training):
Shipboard Information, Training, and Entertainment (SITE)
Integrated Launch And Recovery Television Surveillance (ILARTS)
Class Ship Interior Communications Subsystems Technician (FFG-7SS)
Fiber Optic Data Multiplex System Operation and Maintenance (FODMS)
Data Multiplex System (DMS)
Vertical and Short Take-Off and Landing Optical Landing System (VSTOL)
Stabilized Gyrocompass Maintenance (WSN)
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Comment by Jana on May 21, 2013 at 10:47pm
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Irene YOU are the Best I know I can come on here and find some wonderful message :)
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Comment by irene (9/174) on May 21, 2013 at 9:46pm
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Hi Paige. If Jen is stationed in Japan or Hawaii, or another great place, am I allowed to visit? If she is living on base I would have to get a hotel but what about if she has an apartment off base? When you visit Billy do you stay with him or a hotel?
Jana, you will be there in 9 days!
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Irene I sent my son a note about ordering the pics I hope he does he know how I love pictures. If not I will do it after and im going to order the DVD im already planning a party for family to watch Yes i was thinking about your daughter and wondering if she was still on hold Sol and I are the only 2 moms on this group form our PIR there may be others I do ask So maybe they will be. I just got the Pass for the PIR wow what a feeling
Paige Enjoy
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Sorry Jana, Steven.
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Hi Jana. I wanted to let you know that my daughter told me after PIR that she ordered and paid for the pictures. She gave them to us the next day. She ordered package A which comes with the yearbook. She thought it came with the dvd too but it didn't. I called the photo lab last week and the lady confirmed that and then emailed me the order form and I mailed it back to them. So if you forget to order the dvd after PIR, don't worry, you can call them a few days later.
Also, they are still on hold. Maybe she will be in class with Stephen.
Paige, just in case you only get to check this site once this week, I hope you have a great weekend with Billy.
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thanks irene Paige has certainly been around the block so exciting I know my son would love to see the world.
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Hi ladies, I am very excited about the places Jen will be going to. Are they allowed visitors? Paige, you and Billy have had exciting lives! Jana and Sol, I will be thinking about your boys this weekend. Good luck to them!
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Comment by sol on May 19, 2013 at 9:15pm
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I'm praying everyday for our Sailors very intense week coming up we should get phone call next week, keep your phones by you 24/7
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Sol welcome our boys will be going to A school together
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sol thanks you
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