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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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Nuke School Charleston
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My husband is in Nuke school at the NWS in Charleston, SC. We are enjoying it here! This group's for anyone who wants to talk.
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Comment by Kristen (Greg, Nuke ET3's Wife) on May 26, 2010 at 3:04pm
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Hey everyone..... Been down here for like 9 days already. Just have a couple of questions real quick... I heard that when you go to the doctor on base, you can't bring your kids?! Say if I'm sick, I can't bring my children...or husband? If thats the case then w/e, maybe I'll go to a doctor off base. Also, anyone know where to get birth control...is there a planned parenthood? Or do you just have to set up an OB appointment? Btw, I live in the brand new houses close to the mini nex and bowling alley
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Comment by Navy for Moms Admin on May 26, 2010 at 11:45am
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Hi Nuke Moms, Please be careful when posting information, such as personal email addresses. We recommend that you send these through personal messages.
Thank you,
Elizabeth
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Comment by SumiK0125 (wife of a Nuke MM) on May 25, 2010 at 7:31pm
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thanks so much everyone!...
i guess this is just another one of the things i have to wait and see what happens....
you know how much we all love to do that...NOT!
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Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 25, 2010 at 3:42pm
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SumiK- There are some guys that stay in Great Lakes for awhile. I do remember my brother telling me about them. They're the ones you'll see on the street corners making sure people cross where they're supposed to and doing silly jobs like that. They are waiting to head to school, but I'm fairly sure that the Nukes head straight for Charleston where they stay in Indoc until they class up :)
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Comment by Krystal(Trevor'swife) on May 25, 2010 at 3:42pm
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SumiK-My husband's PIR is June 11 and he flys out of Great Lakes on the 16th so they may be up there for a few days but I haven't heard anything about 2 weeks. He told me he will get there on a Thursday and has to wait until Tuesday for a housing brief. Then then Wednesday they send him home to get me and the baby. So you shouldn't have to wait long. My husband sent me a paper that had info for married Sailors and it had the whole sequence of events on it.
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okay thank you so much...i just saw that someone said their nuke might be staying in GL after graduation for 2 weeks...and i was just like why? she say they wait for school to open up and i got worried...
i want to be out there with my husband and to meet some of you ladies asap
but thank you for clearing that up for me!
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Comment by Ashia on May 25, 2010 at 12:09pm
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Yeah, that's really what Indoc is for. On like Tuesday of the week he arrives, they will ask who is married, and those guys go off to do all the briefs relevant to them.. Don't worry. He's got it..
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okay...thanks so much that puts my mind at ease to know that....
so while he is indoc, would he be able to process the necessary paperwork to get my son and i there?
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I'm fairly certain they don't wait in Great Lakes. There is something here called Indoc, and that's what they are doing while they wait for te next class up for A-school (there is a new one ever week). I mean, it's the Navy. They do what they want. But, I'm pretty sure they come straight here.
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someone told me it is possible for the guys to get held in GL for up to 2 weeks while they wait for a nuke class to start in GC. is that true?
i really hope not....
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