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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)
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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
Started by LittleShipMemories Oct 11, 2018. 0 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by proudmama on August 27, 2013 at 8:46pm
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Jodi-Oh yes!!! It felt great!! I felt like a huge boulder rolled off of my shoulders! I'm going to put my feet up and exhale! I was worried that because his eye glasses prescription had increased, that he would not pass the eye exam for the AIRR rate... so it was great to receive a note that was positive and upbeat!
Thanks to all of you for your support! I don't know what I would have done without my N4m family:)
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Comment by Jodi-alumni Ship 4 on August 27, 2013 at 7:33pm
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proudmama, glad to hear he is adjusting well. Now, how are you doing? Isn't it great to get that first letter?
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Hi all! I received my first personal letter from my son. It was upbeat and positive... what a sigh of relief. Is there a mom of an SR whose son is also AIRR at bc with the initials AB? If so, please message me. I have some nice things to tell you about your son! All is well... they are just learning to work as a team. Have had some priv. taken away, but my son takes it all in stride!
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Comment by jaxietwo on August 26, 2013 at 3:08pm
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Jodi, he did but I don't think they discussed BC!
Lydia, yes I'm sure he is figuring it out - hence my worry that it was becuse of him that they didn't get to call :) He would absolutely do what your son did! And laugh while doing the bear crawls!
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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on August 26, 2013 at 12:40pm
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hahahahahaha jaxie thats cute what your boy said.... and quite the opposite but Im sure he is figuring that out about now... yikes... with middle of the night ironing, bear crawls down the hallways. multiple "beat downs" (means extra PT if they get in trouble) I have to tell yall a funny story that my son laughs about now.... So one day one of the Recruits in his Ship was getting yelled at because the RDC found a pair of dirty whiteys in the kids bunk..well, the RDC was bawling him out and calling him silly names and so my B laughed out loud quite by accident!!!!!!.. BAD BAD BAD thing to do... so the kid and my son had to do Bear Crawls all through out the ships and cry out Im am stupid I love dirty underwear.... over and over and over....hahahahaha Anyway, they really do learn at about week 5ish to work as a team... They are almost always able to go to chapel and or write letters on Sunday mornings.. My son said that the negative actions of a few caused them to lose a lot of calls or they would only get a 5 minute call instead of 15 / 20.... and or get a lot of extra PT... but it is a learning process for them. Specs HAVE to learn to be a team, in the real Specs world it can mean the difference of life and death...
Yes for the Boxer and pillowcases!!!!!! Yea for our BC kids!!!!!! They will do stellar and come out so much more mature .. you wont even recognize them!!!
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Obviously he didn't talk to any special ops guys before he left lol!
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I can remember a conversation with my SR before he left - which had me just shaking my head, he said "they will go easy on us because we are spec ops" I can't wait to ask him if he still believes that now!!! Ah youth - ignorance is bliss!
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proudmama and jaxietwo, the special ops division trains much harder that the regular divisions so they don't have as much spare time. Please don't think that just because they haven't called that they are having troubles. (it could be that: it was for my son's division BUT they went on to get it together and win the Hall of Fame award so even if it is for that reason it could turn around!!)
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Agreed!
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Jaxietwo- they are all learning team work! Who knows what happened...maybe nothing...maybe they are in a different phase of training than the other divisions... since they keep telling us "no news is good news".... I wish a great day for the guys... with absolutely NO news:) (except a phone call or letter! haha)
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