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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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My son has found the perfect job for a teenager! When I ask him, "What are you doing?", he honestly tells me, "Sorry, Mom, I can't tell you."

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Latest Activity: May 17, 2023

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Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 30, 2013 at 8:25am: Thanks Blondie and BarbRags! Blondie, he will get to leave the boat soon and this has actually worked out for the best. If little Declan had been born on time, Chris would not have gotten to see him but a couple of days. Now, he will be able to enjoy seeing him during his time off ship. That is good since Liz has been sick almost everyday since month 1, now he will be able to give her some much needed time to rest, relax, and hopefully be able to do a few things for herself during his brief time home before returning to his ship.

Gone to look at baby pictures!!!

Comment by BarbRags on September 30, 2013 at 8:09am: Congratulations Mary.

mom w - now that bootcamp is over, it gets easier, but school is hard. You can talk to him in the evenings. So keeping in touch is much easier. Depending how far you are, you can even go visit. Once they're able to wear their civies they seem to relax too.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 30, 2013 at 7:03am: Yay!!! A few weeks early but we have a beautiful grandbaby!!! Now if I could whisk him home from Japan (with his mommy and daddy too, of course!) Daddy is at sea right now but he will get to meet his son soon.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful day.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 24, 2013 at 4:58pm: mom w, Boot camp is generally the hardest unless they are going into a conflict area. You and he will enjoy being able to talk more often.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 23, 2013 at 10:17pm: Nope Anna, I think you are a lifer now. lol

Comment by Anna on September 23, 2013 at 9:28pm: Mary,

That's ok - - - I'm not going anywhere!!!!!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 23, 2013 at 9:02pm: If you want him to meet up with you, let him know now so he can pull some extra watches and duties soon if he can find folks to pull his shifts that weekend. Being a long weekend, if he can get all four days they might allow him to travel the other 60 as well, given the circumstances. He will just need to ask that in advance too.

Anna, Thanks so much for the info and thank your officer too! I emailed Ellen about the admin stuff for the page but as usual she has not replied. :-( Oh well.

Comment by SouthernCalimom Ship 13 Div 333 on September 23, 2013 at 5:32pm: Thanks, wanting to go back for Thanksgiving. My sister is 4 hrs from him so he's safe to go there but my mom is in a nursing home in PA with Alzeimer, and I need to go see her at the same time. That's about 360 miles from Dan Neck.

Comment by Anna on September 23, 2013 at 5:06pm: Mary,

Jenn told me recently it was 300 miles.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on September 23, 2013 at 4:57pm: I'm not sure SouthernCaliMom. Several years ago, it was around 300 straight miles. My son came home every couple of weekends. He had to get special permission since we were about 10 miles outside that radius. I had heard they had dropped that distance to like 50 or 100 miles later but I'm not sure. And they may have raised it back up to 300 since then.

Now there are times that the MWR organizes trips to DC, Bush Gardens, etc. That's different. They are in a Navy bus with Navy officers leading them and they have a specific itinerary so they can go where the Navy says they can.