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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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Comment by jesnavymom on May 19, 2018 at 6:12pm
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My LO wrote to me about RPT sessions. Can someone tell me what that is? It wasn’t in the Navy Speak list of acronyms. I’m assuming some type of physical training.
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Comment by NavyMom - Lora on May 18, 2018 at 6:45am
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Thank you!
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You have all the support of the Navy Moms and their families.
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Comment by Helomom on May 15, 2018 at 8:23pm
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Hi Glenni! If your son really wants to be an aviator then that’s what he should try to do. But he really needs a passion for it. As far as predicting a career, that is hard to do. The fact is the older you get and the higher rank you achieve, the less you fly. Flying is done primarily by O-4 and below and the lucky O-5 on command tours. Our son hasn’t flown in almost two years and he flew then because he was the Skipper and the Skipper gets to fly. Now it will adminstrative work until he retires in 2022. He will have 25 yrs in at that point. Most of the jet pilots he has known leave the Navy at about the 12 year mark to go fly for an airline or fly corporate if they really want to keep flying. He’s a helo guy and the airlines are even after them right now.
From my perspective trying to plan a career in the Navy is a crazy game. You work hard and advance regularly through the Junior Officer ranks (O1-O3). Then you hit the first big bottle neck at O-4. If you don’t get the right break, boom you’re done. O-5 was determined by how you placed as an O-4. So you spend your middle years trying to position yourself for the next cut and the cut to O-6 is brutal. Out of our son's graduating class from NROTC I think 2 people made the O-6 list. One of his friends who had gone to the Naval Academy and had done all the right stuff but didn’t get the lucky break 7 years ago between O-3 and O-4, did not get selected. All the work he did to reposition himself didn’t work. So it all depends on an individual's desire to play the game.
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Comment by Glenni on May 15, 2018 at 1:27pm
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Helomom, My son just finished his 4th class Midshipman year at Auburn in the NROTC unit there. He really wants to be an aviator. However, they are putting a lot of pressure on him to be a Nuke. He feels like CORTRAMID this summer will help him with his decision. But one concern about aviation is that he has been told most aviators are not able to stay in long term, and he is really thinking he wants this to be a career. Your son has been in as an aviator for many years, it appears. What is your take on the longevity of aviators in general?
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It’s a really exceptional opportunity, M's mom.
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Helomom,
That's right about it being an adventure! They also say, "Join the Navy, and see the world." Since my son left Newport as an Ensign in 2012, he has seen Virginia Beach, Whidbey Island WA, Singapore, Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Guam, Hawaii, and Monterey,CA !!! Not bad for a small town Indiana farm boy!
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Thank you Anna: I did find OTC Newport page and have added it to my favorites. Appreciate all of you helping us newbies through this. :)
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Thank you all! It’s been a long time since I snapped those Ensign bars on his shoulders at graduation. For those who don’t know, he was commissioned into the Navy Nurse Corps. Then when his commitment was nearly done he tested, applied, and was accepted to flight school. This meant he had to resign his commission, accept an Unrestricted Line Officer commission and hope he would make it as an aviator or they would send him home. All worked out and he’s living the dream. He and his family love their Navy life. As they used to say...”It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure!” (USN ad campaign from the early 90's, I believe)
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Comment by Anna on May 14, 2018 at 9:37pm
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Jenna07,
Also look on facebook for the group OTC Newport!!! (Officer Training Command) They will post pics of the classes and you may be lucky to pick out your loved one!!!!!
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