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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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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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Discussion Forum
The Path of a Rescue Swimmer
Started by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours). Last reply by Swimmermom May 28, 2019. 53 Replies 33 Likes
My Rescue Swimmer is at RTC...PIR 11/9/18
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Comment by proudmama on September 8, 2013 at 10:54am
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Travels-thanks for the info... and yes, it is always a good reminder to not be too specific! Thanks... I think it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking it is "Us four and no more" on this site... rather than an entire world out there!
I have a story to tell you this week about phone calls... so I was out on a walk listening to my music from my iphone (don't you think I should get a free phone from that quick advertisement?) when all of a sudden I received a call from my SR! I excitedly answered it, but he told me he could hardly hear me because of static! I realized that he was hearing the wind blowing... and being not so close to home, I looked around and ...... jumped into a bush to keep the wind from disrupting the phone call. I stood there... in the middle of someone's bush... laughing, exclaiming, and at one point almost crying during our conversation. I'm sure it was quite a site to behold since I was really head first into the bush with my feet still on the sidewalk... I finally stepped out of the bush.. still laughing with people looking at me as they were walking and driving by...There I was, stepping out of the bush... walking, laughing and then almost crying to myself.... yep... I'm not crazy... I'm a navy mom!
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Comment by Travelsalot on September 8, 2013 at 4:22am
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Hi Proudmama... My son called home when he arrived at boot camp, and again a couple week later...then word spread through N4M that the guys were going to call home and a specific date/date was given out... The call never came, the entire group was being punished and no phone calls were made...We found out later it was because of the info on N4M.. Be careful abut what you post. Then, I think I may have have gotten one more call... I received several letters.. My son said they are so busy and tired and they have to study on their spare time so it was hard to find time to write. Don't get discouraged, your sailor is very busy..... Sometimes, no news is good news..right...
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Hey Vet moms out there.... about how many times was your son/daughter able to call home during bc? What should I anticipate?
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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on September 7, 2013 at 4:40pm
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woooooooooooooooow it is quiet in here!!!! love yall!
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proud..... yes and pink eye seems to go through also.... perhaps as there is sooo much swimming involved and the pools are not cleaned fast enough... I dunno... but I recall my son had real high fever once also... gave him three days of bed rest which hahahah....... means the get to sit at attention on their bunk.. no laying down.. sheeeeesh!!! But they really do try to take good care of the kids! The RDCs watch them like hawks. YEA phone calls and letters should be rolling in a little also by now!
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Lydia- thoughts and prayers go out to your son while on deployment!
Also, prayers go out to all our sailors and military personnel as they make their way through this trying time!
Div 820 was able to make phone calls home yesterday! From all the postings, it seems as though all are well, but sore throats/strep? seems to be making way round the group! 10/11 PIR can't come soon enough!
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Hi everyone!!!
Hi Melissa! funny story hahahaha.... love BC stories! and awesome for your boy... getting on down that Pipeline!
Hi Nancy and Proud!!!!
Well, as the fleet amasses in the Syrian theater (public knowledge so no OPSEC there) I begin to wonder where my boy is... nerve wracking Ill tell ya! He said in his last message to me a week ago that he cant tell me and of course I would not ask anyway! Still, I worry of course... OH well, don't we ALL worry about our kids.. no matter if they are BC, RSS, A school, SERE, FRS or deployed! love those kids!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by nancynature on September 1, 2013 at 10:54pm
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Melissa - it was tough on him. As soon as he got to P'scola he was in a pool!
Yeah for your son classing up!
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Comment by Melissa on September 1, 2013 at 12:47am
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No pool time for the swimmer Nancy? My son wouldn't have lasted! We tease him that if he doesn't swim daily his gills dry out. =) That boy was made to be a rescue swimmer - he was in the pool the first time at about 2 months, and doing flips off the diving board at 4.
Found out yesterday that my son begins his next round of classes (FRS) on Tuesday -yeah!
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Melissa-thanks for the story! What a great reminder! I'm going to print that out!
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