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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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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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For all the Moms(and Dads) with a Sailor in Japan
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Comment by T-Lynn on August 5, 2009 at 11:16pm
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Question?
Been talking on the IL N4Ms. A new mom was stating how she is trying to learn Navy Terms. I shared how I love using the words "Crank Duty". But a question was asked: "How did it get that name of 'Crank Duty" for doing kitchen detail? Any one know? TLynn
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Comment by Kim on August 5, 2009 at 8:05pm
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Great picture and video Carol. Thanks for the updates.
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Comment by Anti M on August 5, 2009 at 11:55am
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Wendy, he'll be fine, getting lost in Japan is something like a rite of passage. I got lost on the trains one weekend when I was new there, a nice man went a half hour out of his way to show me how to get to the correct train line!
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Hi,
Great picture of your son Carol and what a story too. That will be memory.
TLynn
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Oh Carol, that's priceless! Too bad about the stick though. Glad he made it, that's a memory which will last forever. If you look through my pics, there's one taken halfway up. I was beat by then!
Yeah, the way down can be fast but that trail is all cinders. One year we saw someone try to shortcut the switchbacks, the started a small avalanche. We we off to the side, but there was a man in the group in front of us who was struck in the thigh by a bouncing rock. Big rock, small boulder... did some damage. We stopped, but someone in his group started first aid right away, another went running down the paths to find help. This was in the days before cell phones. We finally did see him down at Station Five, they had to carry him off the mountain "by hand".
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Wendy, what are you concerned about with your son?
Japan is actually one of the best places for a person who is not "street-wise" to begin. Overall, the Japanese are very honest, helpful and friendly. He'll have to watch out for theft, but not from the Japanese, from his fellow sailors. The only people I knew in Japan who got robbed were guys who went out and over-indulged in drink by themselves. The bar districts can be rough, but are far, far safer than similar environments in the US.
Girls? Well, that's another topic entirely.
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The Fuji climbing season coincides with the peak of the typhoon season. That makes it interesting, LOL.
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Thanks Carol, With the new link i could see it too.
Julie, So glad the cell phone story gave you laugh and do share when you hear from Kyle and his thought on that hamburger. Friends I could use some postive thought tonight. I am having a reaction to meds that had to be used for a test. My thyroid is reacting to it - now taking the bendrayl - but shakey. Thanks TLynn
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That was great Carol
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Carol, I don't get it. I don't see the link to a video at the bottom of the page. Can you post that link here instead?
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