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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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Nuke School Charleston

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 Dana (David's Mom) on May 14, 2010 at 4:28pm
Amanda,

As an older Mom of a 23 year old Powere school sailor I have to also mostly agree with your statement. My son has changed for the better, he is more focused, committed and working harder than when he tried college at 18. I am so glad I got him to try college first with several different directions of study. He made the choice on his own to sign up. (We had looked into it while he was still in High School). I think he got all that partying, over spending and not studying out of his system or it might be that now he has found something he really likes and challenges him. He is doing well, loves the program and all his new friends. He has seem some of his friends and classmate not do as well for various reasons. I pray for them all and feel that if it's meant to be it will be. So sorry for those moms, gf's and wives experiencing difficulties and hope that as time passes things will even out for all.
Comment by amanda on May 14, 2010 at 3:50pm
Thanks Casey. I was pretty nervous about saying that so its nice to hear I'm not totally shunned by the group :)
And my boyfriend and I have had quite our share of problems but he didn't make too much of a change until I called him out on it, even though he already knew he wasn't being his best. sometimes it just takes a little push.
Comment by SumiK0125 (wife of a Nuke MM) on May 14, 2010 at 11:53am
sooo... once my husband graduates and gets to SC he has to decide which way we move? navy way or DITY...

seems to me DITY is the way to go...
Comment by amanda on May 14, 2010 at 11:06am
Yes, the Navy does influence who they are, but ultimately it is a person's choice to become who they would like to be. It's rough because since they are under so much stress they have no desire to think a little before they act but I bet you could see this at any college or house/apartment. The Navy didn't tell him to go out, get drunk, spend money, etc. He chose to do that. He's exploring this new found freedom and constant paycheck. Just like any other newly liberated person. Younger twenties is when people really discover who they are. I'm sure everyone here who's been at this stage can say they've had some more unpleasant times of their past they'd like to forget. Yet it's hard to have already experienced this and not want your son/daughter to make the same mistakes.
Sorry if I step on any toes here...
Comment by Courtney on May 14, 2010 at 11:00am
Thanks for the kind word guys! Desert -- just to clarify he's not my son lol I guess you could call him my boyfriend even though he isn't techinically my boyfriend (if that makes sense lol). But thank you, your words still hit home.

Laurie -- did your son return to "normal" eventually? Was it just a rough patch he went through and then things got better for him again? I keep telling myself he'll turn around and everything will work out in the end that he is just extremely stressed out. But I wish I could see the future lolol and know in fact that that will be the case. I'm just giving him a ton of space right now. No calls or texts because that apparently made him angry. I think because he's frustrated he doesn't have time to return the call even though I've told him repeatedly I understand and I'm ok with it and I was just trying to support him from afar.

You are exactly right that he has just now seen his reality. Which blows me away because I've seen this reality for a long time now. I'm just praying that if he's having a hard time now it'll only make him more prepared for Power School and he'll be good to go for that.
Comment by SumiK0125 (wife of a Nuke MM) on May 14, 2010 at 2:13am
hi ladies...new here..husband is at BC...just in need of support and moving advice...posted a discussion, but looked around and found a little of what i wanted to know...
just kinda depressed today....really missing my husband
Comment by Courtney on May 13, 2010 at 8:05pm
I will say that my experience in dealing with A School has changed dramatically in the past month. In the beginning of his A School he was doing great, at the top of his class and we talked on a somewhat regular basis and then much more on the weekends. Well he is about half through A School (finishes end of July) now and if I'm lucky I get one quick, random call on the weekend. And his personality has a done a 180. I knew the stress level would be bad but I wasn't expecting a personality change and straight up anger directed at me. And believe me I've been nothing but understanding and patient knowing full well that he's studying his butt off and I don't want to add to his stress level. So good luck to those just starting A School hopefully your experiences are better than mine. I thought all was going to be fine until we hit that half way mark. And from what I hear Power School is going to be just as fun!
Comment by Cheyanna (Wife of Brent,Nuke MM) on May 13, 2010 at 11:26am
Haha ya I agree! I have not even begun to think about deployments yet, just getting through one stage at a time. I hope the schooling goes nice and long hehe ;) Talk to you ladies soon. Have a fabulous day
Comment by Nicole loves Sean (EM-N (SS)) on May 13, 2010 at 9:22am
Cheyanna- I'm with you. I'm not looking forward to the next few months of what is sounding like less communication than BC, but i guess i see it as my training for deployments. My boyfriend is a submariner (signed the contract... never doing surface duty) so i will have to get used to prolonged periods of time without hearing from him :(
they really should have a Navy Girlfriend/Wife training!!!
Comment by Cheyanna (Wife of Brent,Nuke MM) on May 13, 2010 at 1:17am
Nicole- My husband starts classes next week also! I wish I had been able to be with him during the time when he didn't have much responsibility or stress from school.
 

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