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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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 05/31/2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
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ellen0502
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Betsy, son on Stennis carrier
Craig
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 70
Latest Activity: May 31, 2016
~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.
~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.
~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.
~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:
• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.
Some Suggestions:
~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.
~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option
~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".
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Here is something on SECURITY CLEARANCE CALLS:
There is the possibility of you receiving a phone call from your SR (Seaman Recruit) during the first one to two weeks (sometimes later as well) after their arrival for Security Clearance info. I received mine one week after my son arrived at RTC. Had no idea it would come that fast. I'd only really been on the site for a week or two, so I had NOTHING ready! (My son asked for two more names along with their phone number and address. Sometimes you may be asked to fax the info but he was told to get it from me right then.).So... if your Recruit has a rating that requires security clearance information...800 Divisions, IT's, CTI's CTT's Nukes, AT's (the list goes on!), anyone that handles confidential info...have a list of references by the phone.
This is a short business call and is monitored. No time for chit chat...but once in a great while the person monitoring the call allows a few extra minutes.
The area code for GL is "847". My security clearance call, the caller ID said "US GOVERNMENT". We have also had "PAY PHONE" reported and then area codes for the surrounding areas...so answer all...and just get rid of those telemarketers!
Also, if you receive a call from your SR (at any time...not just the Security Call) and miss it...please do not call the number back. Your SR could get in trouble.
DsMom, and All of you that may receive a first letter that is down, First another BIG HUG
Second, I so agree with ellen0502's ( :-}) post (Please read it below)! That first letter may be very down. You are their "touchstone", venting block etc! I know it is hard!
I got a phone call very early on (several in fact. One because he did not get to make the "I'm here" call and the other two were for security clearance info...more on that in a sec), and it was like a "live" first letter! So down and homesick! I believe that is why that first phone call does not come until about three weeks in...they have had time to adjust some. Oh, don't get me wrong, that first call can be very emotional as well (see this PAGE - Calls from your SR ), but maybe not as down.
mindshaper87 - I'm sorry, did you use the USS John F Kennedy or the Ship 09/ Div 206?
DsMom, hang in there. I am sure it will get better especially as the SRs get to know each other and bond as a team.
I received a letter with the name of the ship, USS John F Kennedy, in the return address. The form letter only had Ship 09 Div 206. That's how I have been addressing his letters. Now I am worried that my 6 letters already sent won't get to my SR. Any veteran mom's know about this?
Okay, I am not trying to be negative so please don't take this the wrong way (don't remove your post okay? :-)), and I very much appreciate folks looking up stuff :-), but I do have something to say about the below link for vocabulary.
Most of the info is correct (only a couple of mistakes).
There is an advertisement for a Boot Camp Guide for purchase. I have never seen it and cannot say yay or nay about it , so not trying to discredit the person, but....
I do not recommend anyone doing that as you can get all of the info for FREE from RTC's FamilyGuide.pdf (that's a clickable link) and on their website (see RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links )and right here on N4M's.
I am going to encourage you to use this link for Acronyms and terms that lemonelephant has made on Boot Camp Moms (PAGES section).
Here is the direct link to it:
What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology)
RICKY CRUD : a collection of cold or flulike symptoms that many recruits (Rickys) suffer through while at RTC; recruits often suffer from upper respiratory symptoms, but they may also suffer from stomach ailments and/or diarrhea as well; this is due to the recruits being exposed to bacteria and germs from all over the US.
I was confused to what it was too and I found this site. I will need to brush up on the vocabulary myself. I hope your son is feeling better. I'm sure with so many changes so quickly that they all are going through something. http://www.navy-info.com/boot_camp_vocabulary.html
Okay I just looked up Ricky Crud. When my son called on Saturday he said he had stomach problems about 2 days into DOT for about 2 days. He didn't want to go to Medical so he just ate lighter. I'm sure it was a combination of nerves, change of pace, change of food, change of times, all that good stuff that happens, but mostly I believe it was nerves... :-) I hope I have my first letter waiting for me today!!
What is Ricky Crud?
DsMom: my son is in the same ship/div. By now he may be doing better. Like ellen said it can change hour to hour, day by day. Encourage him to stick stick to it...his shipmates are also counting on him and are willing to come alongside him to build him up.
Praying for you, praying for him...
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