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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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PIR 1/14/2011

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This is for all of us who have recruits graduating from RTC on January 14th, 2011. Here we can all support eachother through the long separation and prepare to see our US Navy Sailors for the first time after RTC.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 111
Latest Activity: Jul 29, 2011

This PIR group includes Divisons 39-48, 908!Best of luck to all of them!

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Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on December 5, 2010 at 10:57pm: 39 days & counting....continued prayers for unity & strength as well as good health for any/all SR that have come down sick:-) HOOYAH SR @ boot camp!!!

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on December 5, 2010 at 9:45pm: my son sent me this paper... it has no name was hanging on to it with hope and a prayer ... but i don't know what Gods plan is for him... or who he will use to bless him ?........ it can be faxed back but it has to be in by the 15th... my prayers are there for all of u ... if anyones sons know my son he is in ship12 div 039 my email is familymatters7@hotmail.com. thank u guys for all the feedback and support i truley love you all ! i may be a big baby but this is all so hard for me ! i think the worst is the hope he has in his sister and family and how they just don't see it or care ... he is such a giver ... he even handed his dad and I 500 dollors he saved b4 he left to BC. he would not take no for a answer! i am in pieces, its not because he is my son but because i can truley say he is a good boy with a heart of gold. one of the reasons he left is so he would be self sufficiant. I struggled many years being a single mom.... but God always made a way! Nic has always seen that... for that i am BLESSED.

Comment by navy on December 5, 2010 at 8:17pm: Hello All, I haven't read all of the posts yet, but I have had two boys go through boot camp within the last 3 years and my husband was also a sailor... so if you have any questions or just need to vent feel free! God Bless and I hope that even with the kids away we can have a Merry Christmas! God Bless!

Comment by joyceann on December 5, 2010 at 7:47pm: My son is on the phone now- Ship 12- Div 040-- worst connection in the whole world!!!!! Couldn't understand hardly anything he was saying to me. As long as he talked to his Daddy and I, and heard the words I love you, then I feel better. But honestly, that phone should be jerked off the wall--hopefully your loved ones will not have to use it!! Anyway, he sounded very mellow, not at all like 2 weeks ago! Hopefully someone else will get a call tonight!

Comment by gmaof6 on December 5, 2010 at 5:47pm: I think Lynne's comment was correct. Must be that they are getting a little worn down from training and from being homesick especially this time of year. Can't wait for them to turn that corner as she said. Even though it's hard for us we have to be supportive and positive. It will be a tough Christmas this year without them.

Comment by lojogo Ship 11 Division 057 on December 5, 2010 at 5:42pm: We still have not receieved a call. I just want to hear his voice even for a couple of minutes. His last letter was so sad. I just want to encourage him to look forward to us being there for PIR. We can't go for Christmas and it breaks my heart. I have to just resolve myself to the fact that I can't do and fix everything for him. He is going to go through way more disappointing things in his life than us not coming there for Christmas. Still Mama wants to fix it. I know he will understand. You all keep your chins up! Has anyone from Ship 07 Div 43 received a call yet?

Comment by navyfam on December 5, 2010 at 4:50pm: susanmGreat ideas....my son & I went to Camp Pendleton which is pretty close by to us & served in a Children Giving Gifts ministry which a friend of mine runs...the Marines there were so grateful & many of them volunteered to help...the kids get pick gifts (free of charge) for their military parents...a lot are deployed which is why it was held so early, November 20th....it did my heart good since our girl had just been at BC for 10 days. You definitely get outside of yourself when you serve others and it makes you feel so much better & you don't just sit around focusing on what or whom you don't have around.

Comment by Lynne on December 5, 2010 at 3:42pm: I want to reassure each of you that your recruits are at that point where they are going to sound down. They have been yelled at, sleep deprived, and regimented (all for a good cause) for several weeks now. They are on the precipice of understanding what it means to be "Navy". Soon they will turn the corner and you will hear the change. This is where your job gets tough. No matter how disappointed or down they sound...you can't give in...you have to be encouraging, smiling, full of strength, send jokes, funny stories, tell about how you are including them in the holidays...take a picture that you have of them...and show them sitting in the chair by the Christmas tree...eating a Christmas cookie, watching it snow, going to see Christmas lights,,,,crap take that picture Christmas shopping...lol...make a joke say gosh now if you could just get it to clean...life would be good...

Comment by Lex on December 5, 2010 at 3:26pm: as I put my tree up icudnt hold back my tears I've spent every holiday for the last 3yrs with brian and setting up a tree and shopping for gifts and this year I'm on my own and I can't believe how lonely and empty I feel without my best friend I'm hating the holidays this yr!

Comment by susanm(ZEKESMOM) on December 5, 2010 at 2:44pm: I understand the frustration and heartache of knowing our recruits will not be with us for the holidays. My family will not be able to go to GL for Christmas. My recruit hasn't asked. He knows it will be difficult for us just to make graduation and that's what he really wants us to be there for. He understands but has expressed how hard it has been to be away from home during this time. This is what my family plans to do. We are going to do some charity work in our community in honor of him and all the recruits at GL and all US military men and women serving everywhere. We will also be having a prayer and devotion time every day for all our recruits. We can't be there but we can certainly let them know how much we love and miss them in other ways. They will feel all the heartfelt prayers that are being lifted up for them and their RDCs.