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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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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."
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This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.
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Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
We are also known as the Warm & Fuzzie Obama Mamas - and are proud to support our president! Agnostic - Humanist - Atheist - Jewish - Buddhist - Democratic - Independent - Christian - Deist - searching .....all peaceful peeps are welcome!
An open mind equals an open heart which ultimately leads to world peace.
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If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." ~ John F. Kennedy
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Comment by Anti M on December 5, 2009 at 4:35pm
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LOL, Jil, link? Not unless you want to dive into another world entirely...
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Comment by Arwen on December 5, 2009 at 4:26pm
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My son came up with a great way to shut up those who bad-mouth President Obama. When they say something nasty (they seem to assume that because Chris is joining the Navy he must be a neoconservative Obama hater) he says "I will soon be a member of the U.S. military, please do not insult my commander-in-chief in my presence."
I've adopted a similar response... "My son is entering (or is a member of) the U.S. Navy, you are insulting my son's commander-in-chief. Please stop. It's bad for the morale of our military when their leader is insulted."
It's exactly what THEY used to say about any criticism of President Bush.
The look on their faces is priceless.
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A closed group spawns rumor and moles. To my way of thinking, and open group fosters honest opinions, civility (one hopes), and posting with thought of consequences.
Just my 2 cents.
My personal page is set at private, although I friend lots of folks who are asking me questions they do not care to share. There is no picture I am ashamed to have others look at, and if they use for ill... well, that says far, far more about them than me. Heck, I know where there's a nekkid picture of me online and I don't sweat it (dancing with naturalists, not posing or anything sexy). Anyone who looks at that will have their eyes fall out of their skull from shock, LOL.
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My SIL will be renting an apartment and her adult daughter will help with the rent, although her job is minimum wage. No public housing. I do worry about her pets, cats and I thin k one old dog. Dad will keep sending her money, his house is paid for and he has two retirement checks coming in. Sure, if he saves it there would be more in the inheritance, but I don't care what he chooses to do.
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My SIL in NM just lost her house. My brother died back in 2001, no life insurance and a lot of credit card debt... to the tune of $30k. She didn't even know what the mortgage payments were! A friend of the family got her a refinance, and dad sent her $500 a month.. She never could get out of the hole he had dug for her. They had a small antique mall, the only place she ever worked. She's been keeping that open somehow, but with the recession, that fell off a lot. She's selling the stuff which was crammed into her house and garage. she went to the bank and applies for program after program, she qualified for nothing. I doubt she has health insurance. I feel really bad for her. I wish there was a program to help her, she's working the best she knows how.
I don't dare talk about my second widowed SIL, I'd tear my hair out.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on December 2, 2009 at 4:10pm
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Remind your Blue Star mom groups about the program offered by foxsox for socks for soldiers/marines/sailors deployed. Untis in Iraq and Afghanistan have wish lists there for the military socks. You can buy one pair or a dozen.
http://www.foxsox.com/Catalog/category.aspx?code=SLDIR" target="_blank">Socks for Soldiers
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I was raised a Mormon, quit when I was about 18. One of the big factors was moving to Utah, where the church gets involved with the daily life of many people outside the church. I realize this is true elsewhere, but Utah mormons are far different than non-Utah mormons. Hard to explain why exactly, but it is very true. Yes, they make good neighbors for the most part, unless they're voting in a law or ordinance which makes no sense. Like no school sports practices on Monday nights! (That's the Mormon Family Home Evening.) Yeah, so much for separation of church and state.
We never discuss religion or politics, the two are intertwined and just bad juju around here.
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Sad indeed. Right now the law only covers Salt Lake City. However there is a state senator who wants to sponsor it as a bill for the entire state. What is weird is this guy is really anti-gay marriage and adoption. When the LDS church said no one should be discriminated against, he got on board with anti-discrimination. Strange man.
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My friend is a nurse, he's a big guy and gay to boot. In Utah. He lost a good job from intolerance. Now that the new non-discrimination law has come in SLC, he couldn't have lost his job over a boss who didn't like gays. He's doing home visits and does most of his paperwork from home now. The job isn't perfect, but better than what he was doing before. But he still gets crap over petty BS.
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Those tough guys were raw recruits and momma's little boys once upon a time...
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