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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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For moms (and dads), wives (and husbands) and girlfriends (and boyfriends) who survived PIR February 19, 2010 - Including Ship 14 Div 095-100, Ship 7 Div 101-102 and Ship 6 Div 913
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Comment by Arwen on March 22, 2011 at 2:20am
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During the first Libya dust-up in 1986, my cousin Roger was stationed on an aircraft carrier that was part of the operation. My aunt Shirley was insanely worried about his safety. She was calling everyone, from senators and congressmen, even tried to call the president, to get her darling baby son out of there. It was, to her, a completely unacceptable situation. She took it a bit too far, to put it mildly. Roger caught heck for her behavior, and she settled down a bit, but still was a bit overboard. In her defense, her daughter's fiancée (and father of her future grandson) was killed by a drunk driver only a few months earlier, so she was under some stress, but still...
In the midst of all of this was Roger's birthday. Aunt Shirley sent him a birthday card - a brand new invention with a cute little computer chip that played "Happy Birthday" when the card was opened.
Meanwhile, the ship was on high security. The card arrived, and when the mail was processed, they found this one envelope was just kinda wrong, somehow. An examination showed *gasp* a computer chip in the envelope. Which, they thought, could only mean one thing - a trigger mechanism.
They blew it up in an anti-bomb container. After the charge (meant to trigger any bomb material) went off, the entire crew on deck heard the pitiful wailing of "Happy Birthday" as the chip died.
Poor Roger never heard the end of it, from the crew AND from Aunt Shirley, for very different reasons.
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Comment by RosaEdsmom on March 21, 2011 at 6:20pm
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Pam and Sandra~ Will be keeping Sam and Nichelle in our thoughts and prayers. At the time...I never thought BC was going to be the EASY part!
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Did I ever tell you the one about my cousin, my aunt, the first Libya bombings and the birthday card?
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Comment by Navy/ArmyMom on March 21, 2011 at 9:45am
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Slimsam, we will keep him in our prayers along with the other Sailors on the USS Batan.
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Comment by Scott Proud Dad of Brian on March 18, 2011 at 11:19pm
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Pray for our Patriot Armed Forces throughout the world and their families in support of our freedoms, especially the ones serving in Japan right now. I know my son is safe, but they did ride out the tsunami. Must of been fun in a sub.
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Thanks for the update, Arwen. God bless them and bring them all home safely.
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At this point I'm mostly worried that Chris and his shipmates will not get the chance to help at all. Sasebo is far from the action, and they're stuck in port. Right now he's safer than I am. The only worry I have is how they're taking this, being stuck on the sidelines while everyone else gets to do what they're trained to do.
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I think we need a group HUG. Please keep us updated Japan moms.
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That's very happy news, Slimsam!
We're all praying for our Sailors in Japan. It's hard to believe that a year ago they were just out of Boot Camp and here we are already praying and feeling on edge for many of them.
I see we all came back together in time of crisis. God bless them all as well as their worried families.
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It's not looking good for the reactors in Japan. I hope nothing reaches us here. We did get word that everthing is ok for my son. Don't know what it's like to be in a sub with a tsunami.
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