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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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Mass Communication Specialist
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For those with Sailors who are MC's in "A" school or assigned a duty station.
Members: 107
Latest Activity: Oct 9, 2019
Mass Communication Specialists are concerned with public affairs and visual communication. Their role is to present the US Navy to Naval and civilian audiences, through a variety of media. MCs write and produce both print and broadcast journalism, including news and feature stories for military and civilian newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations. They record still and video photography of military operations, exercises, and other Navy events.
Great link from a guy who describes "A" School at FT Meade:
http://civiliantosailor.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
More info for those of you who have sailors getting ready to head to FT Meade:
Go to the link http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/index.asp for DINFOS. There is an ACADEMICS Tab>Course Offerings. A list of classes appears for 2010. Above the list a paragraph with a link to ATRRS. Click on the link. You may be asked to authenticate the certificate. It is safe to do so. After following those directions a page will appear with drop down boxes. Fill in the boxes for Fiscal YR (20XX, the YR searching for), School Code (212), State (MD)>search courses. You can then select each course and see the details for when those classes start & end.
Discussion Forum
Future MC - leaving for BC in 4 days
Started by Celticwoman2. Last reply by AKL5225 Jul 26, 2019. 3 Replies 1 Like
Navy MCs make "first of its kind" documentary
Started by ridewaves. Last reply by ridewaves Aug 29, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
MC "A" School blog
Started by ridewaves. Last reply by 2byzmom Aug 18, 2010. 3 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by Kerry on August 26, 2011 at 10:42am
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Sounds like good advice. My son is at Great Lakes and will be going to Fort Meade for mass communication school.
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Comment by bonnie on August 25, 2011 at 11:42pm
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Hi, Boot camp will be your biggest challenge. In A School, your life will normalize again. Just follow the directions and rules, and you'll do fine.
MC training is loaded with tons of practice on good equipment, practice at TV news anchoring, radio, writing bulletins and newsletters, + more. You will have supportive instructors. Just do your best always. After A school, you will get your assignment to some other location..who knows where? . That could be anywhere with any kind of equipment available, not necessarily the best!, Be flexible, excited and ready to go with the flow. In Boot camp, just follow the rules and do not take it personally when you are yelled at for even following the rules!! Boot camp is way different than anything you know or have done. Be prepared for a rough, and very different time. However, when you pass through it and go to your graduation with your 'ship' before going on to A school, you will feel so accomplished. Just hang in there and keep reminding yourself boot camp is temporary----It is 6-8 weeks long, then you're done. .And, when it's over, and you pass your tests (battle stations) you will be so proud of yourself as will everyone else in your family. I assume you are attending your DEP. Good luck. You are lucky that you got the MC rating. There are much smaller groups that go through the MC training.
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I leave for boot camp on Dec 07 and my rate is MC! i was so excited. i got the job i wanted! Please, any information you can pass on to me from people you know in A school, or in the field, about my job would be great...
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@stephsmom: I too rode on a sub in Hawaii, but it wasn't a navy sub. it was a submarine tour that took us far down below to look at fish. this was rather simple compared to a real sub. But that experience was not for me. I didn't like at all...tour or no tour, down there surrounded by water--ugh. Hurray that Steph's heart was so well-mended as a child that she could join the Navy. Mostly they don't send the young women on a sub. I don't know for sure, though.
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er is not on a submarine!! She's an MC2 on a submarine supply ship. So sorry. I can see why the confusion, I wrote submarine tender which has no meaning at all unless I called it a supply ship. It's a huge, but not as huge as the carriers.The submarines that surface for food/water/supplies and her ship delivers the goods. She's taken several photos of how it all happens between big ship and subs that emerge from deep dark water below to 'go shopping'. Submarine life must be very challenging. I think I'd be a nervous wreck If I knew my sailor girl was down below the surface like this. No one hears much about the sailors down below. 3 triple cheers to them for their scary work.
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Comment by Kac46047 on August 7, 2011 at 8:28pm
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lol yes it is! I googled navy and this guy came up lol. Wow an MC on a sub tender never heard of that but then again i heard of one of my husbands friends getting sent to conneticut with a sub as a MC recently. Pretty cool!
Subs are totally different then the fleet with communication, I know a sub wife who rarely hears from her husband because spotty internet and its hard to get mail to them. Your daughter definitly will know her E-mail info for her ship once she recieves it.
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Hi! Glad to be back, I think I know what happened to me..how I was 'AWOL'd!! anyway, nice to be back. Um..Elizabeth is on a submarine tender, not a huge ship (well, it's huge enough!) but not like Steph's ship in japan. I asked Elizabeth about the Ombud program, she inquired and was told they didn't have one for her ship because there was a frequent turnover of people. (??) She does have internet but it is so spotty. They are in dry dock right now before shipping out so she can get to the USO or off the ship on occasion to access internet. The internet on board is not reliable. I do not have the ship's email. I'll have to check that out. Would Elizabeth have that? Can I direct her to ask someone in particular? (She is in the print dept. on board.) ugh. Seems challenging! I am challenged! I will check out the FRG you, Smallsy, mentioned below.
PS,--off topic but is that profile pic of a little 'chiwawa' in SEAL gear? =)
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Bonnie the FRG (Family Readiness Group) for whereever she is stationed (Norfolk, san diego , etc) may have the obudsmans info. If shes on a large ship i cant imagin there not being one for them
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What an honor for Rachel to sing then Ntl anthem before the crowds at Norfolk! Must be this weekend. Please let us know the detail! Did she wear her uniform?
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Hi all, I somehow got booted off of N4Ms! I could receive email notices but could not respond. I suddenly did not exist on the site anymore. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't respond to anyone. I was able to read your comments, though. Odd! I simply didn't have an account here anymore. So I restarted everything. I see my daughter's picture is below Texas Carol's! she was sitting at her desk in the radio room while on shore duty in Italy.I see I'll have to re-do the pic.too. So this is the update: My MC2 Elizabeth was able to come home in April (2011) for 3 weeks (heaven to have her home!) before she flew off to the Middle East to catch up with her ship. She is now on a year's ship duty. Internet is spotty so I don't hear from her often. I asked about the ombudsman and she said they didn't have one. Is that usual? Anyone know who I can contact to get this started. There is going to be loooong periods of time that we hear nothing. Just to know her ship/sailors are fine is all I need to know once they are really out of contact. I hope all of your sailors are settled in and doing fine. P.S.. While restarting my N4M account, I noticed the amount of members on N4M is at 51,000+. I was one of the first 400 N4Ms ! Wow, it sure has grown, & changed with the variety of groups and forums. Good going.
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