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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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On this day in Navy history...

The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.

—Mission statement of the United States Navy

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Permalink Reply by CaliMom (Maryann) on September 8, 2010 at 10:18pm

I love this. Can't wait to ask my son if he has done any singing lately. I don't know that he has ever really sung anything, hum maybe.

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 8, 2010 at 6:36pm

September 8th-

1958 - LT R. H. Tabor, wearing a Navy developed pressure suit, completes 72-hour simulated flight at altitudes as high a 139,000 feet. It was another step in the development of the Navy spacesuit, which NASA accepted in 1959 for use by Mercury astronauts.

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 9, 2010 at 6:13pm

September 9th-

1841 - First iron ship authorized by Congress

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 10, 2010 at 8:01pm

September 10th-

1813 - In Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, flying his "Don't give up the ship" flag, defeats British squadron and says: "We have met the enemy and they are ours..."

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 11, 2010 at 9:21am

September 11th-

2001 - American Flight 77 hijacked by terrorists struck the Pentagon. Casualties include 33 sailors, 6 Department of the Navy civilians, and 3 Navy civilian contractors reported missing, Arlington, VA. Two commercial airliners also struck the World Trade Center in New York City, NY, destroying both towers.

2002 - The "Don't Tread on Me" First Navy Jack is flown by Navy ships marking the first anniversary of the terrorists attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center

Permalink Reply by Kat Q on September 11, 2010 at 11:48pm

Thank you LTLY for this post. God Bless and prayers to all the families of those lost on this sad day.

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 13, 2010 at 12:04pm

September 12th-

1966 - Launch of Gemini 11, piloted by CDR Charles Conrad Jr., USN and LCDR Richard F. Gordon Jr., USN. Their mission lasted 2 days and 23 hours and included 44 orbits at an altitude of 1368.9 km.. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guam (LPH-9)

Permalink Reply by LTLY on September 13, 2010 at 12:06pm

September 13th-

1906 - Sailors and Marines from USS Denver land in Havana at the request of the Cuban government to preserve order during a revolution.

Permalink Reply by Jane, MM Mom on September 13, 2010 at 7:01pm

This is from the front of the Navy Keel Book that the recruits can order after Boot Camp.
The keel is the first part of a ship to be constructed. "Laying the keel," a high light in ship building, is the first step in transforming a set of plans and a body of materials into an integrated, useful structure. The keel is the basic unit of a ship's hull, serving as a foundation while the ship is being built and giving strength and support to the finished product.
Recruit training might be called the keel of a sailor's career in the Navy. Just as laying the keel is the first step in transforming materials into a finished ship, so recruit training is the first step in transforming the civilian into the Bluejacket. Recruit training serves as a foundation for a sailor's Naval career in the same sense that the keel serves as a foundation for the ship. And as the keel gives strength and support to the finished ship, the skills recruits learn during their first few weeks in the Navy will support them throughout their Naval career and their lives.