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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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Alumni of PIR 08/05/2011

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TG 38 - 10 DIVISIONS (243-250, 817 & 938)

For those that have loved ones graduating Friday, August 5th, 2011

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Comment by amberrose on July 18, 2011 at 2:01pm: From what I hear, Battlestations can be anywhere from a week before to a couple of days before PIR. Please correct me if I am wrong veterans! :-)

I <3 my Sailor - Maybe your SR might be rewarded for those high marks on the tests. Congrats to your SR. Great job!

Comment by I <3 my Sailor (Ship 04/DIV 817) on July 18, 2011 at 1:44pm: Well battle stations is the week before right? so I'm guessing because that's the call saying "I'm A Sailor"

Comment by Tonya (Ship 09 DIV 247) on July 18, 2011 at 1:41pm: We have a date for battle stations???

Comment by I <3 my Sailor (Ship 04/DIV 817) on July 18, 2011 at 1:19pm: Hi everyone, My Sr told me that he would be getting a call because he made a 5.0 on two inspections so he said he would get an hour phone call. He didn't say when that call would happen... So I was wondering if everyone thinks maybe he's talking about the 29th.... I'm not sure if he is or not because they all get the call the 29th, because that's when battle stations is over.

Comment by Tonya (Ship 09 DIV 247) on July 18, 2011 at 1:01pm: FTLW - Love that. We are glued together. What a perfect way to describe that. I literally feel incomplete. Add on top of that the challenge of trying to explain to my 3 year old why his Daddy is gone. And tell him how much his Daddy still loves him... and listen to him say, "I wish Daddy was here and you were gone." Ugh. It's been a rough month and a half. :o/ But the positive side of this. We are surviving!!! :o)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2011 at 12:44pm: And yes...it started for Moms...have to have other moms to boo-Hoo to until we get it out of our system...but am so glad that everyone comes here! We're moms, we want EVERYONE to be happy!
We even had a Sailor on our PIR group. His GF was going through BC...she was graduating two years almost to the day he did! He came to the Meet n Greet! Was nice to have him...his mom even chimed in when he tried to recall something...so sweet.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2011 at 12:38pm: tonya-That is great that they will PCS you!
I have had BOTH these past three months. Son went into the Navy three months into hubby's deployment.
Missing my son...very hard...but part of the process of BOTH of us growing up! There will always be adjustments in our relationship as he goes through his seasons. THAT has been an eye opener for me!
Missing my husband of 30 years...an ache I am not even going to try to define.
Do you know that the Hebrew word for "cleave" (as in leave...and cleave)means "to glue together"? We're not talking Elmers here either! Just like the one meaning of it (Saxon in origin) means to split apart completely,the Hebrew is THAT binding. When I look at my marriage through His eyes the view is MUCH more spectacular! It's precisely that "glue" that kept us together while we were separated.
I got on this site (my first time being on anything like this) to help me get through Boot Camp, I honestly don't know HOW (if any) someone could do it alone...we are not made to go through life alone.
BUT, I got double out of it...as a reservist wife, we are "out of the loop" so to speak,and it helped me to have that "military" connection of others who "get it".
It still does, as we go through post-deployment, reintegration...nice technical terms for "glue".

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2011 at 11:35am: I agree, CorysNavyMom. This site is for all ladies (and sometimes men who drop in) who have SRs/sailors!

Comment by bobbie (ht mom) on July 18, 2011 at 10:14am: lisarobin so glad you finally got to speak with your son i know how great it feels and what a sweet young lady in amberrose so happy for you both