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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.
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Comment by Vickie - Rooney's mom on February 10, 2010 at 8:42pm
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Lots of deoderant! Lots of sailors request the baby wipes. No electricity - ugh!
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He is in Div 3, Hangar Bay. He's an ABH. Don't know how many guys/girls are in his division, I met 3 females when we did the tiger cruise. Nice kids, all of them! You name it, I sent it. Socks, underwear, deoderant, candy, microwavable food, dvds, crossword puzzles, silly travel games, a slinky (their favorite), brownies (their favorite), athletes foot powder, scalpicin....
Cindy - I don't know the San Clemente area at all.
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Hang in there Robin and Cindy! Deployment is hard - I lived for the e-mails and infrequent phone calls from the ship. Write letters, make a scrapbook, send care packages. I think I was the "Division Mom" when it came to care packages! Cindy, Morgan and his new bride look so happy!
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Welcome to the West Coast Matt! He will love San Diego. That's just wonderful Helen!
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Wow, Cindy, what a lot of changes. I am sure there is an ombudsman for the unit he will be attached to. You will have to e-mail them once he is with his unit and they will confirm he is your son and add you to the group. They are absolutely wonderful in keeping families informed. I am in San Diego occasionally so let me know next time you are down, we may bump into one another. Please keep in touch during deployment as you will need support.
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Definitely bring her car home. We turned off his cell phone because the carrier said it may not work in some of the countries. He never called while in port - having too much fun. You should get her some ship to shore cards from AT&T Global, those are the only ones that work on the ship. Then we did the tiger cruise when they returned. It was great! I carried on a duffle bag of brownies for his divison.
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Deployment was hard. I lived for e-mails but sometimes the e-mail is down. He called from the ship but the connection is terrible - we didn't care, just to hear his voice was a joy. I kept a scrapbook of all the news articles, called the ombudsman careline all the time, watched the google alerts, mailed tons of care packages, put sticky flags on the map. They are also splitting Christmas and New Year. I don't know which he'll get. My husband figures we'll just buy a dead tree at the after Christmas tree lot sale, paint it green and call it good!
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Robin, Do you get to see her often? Alan is in WA, he was home on leave in August after deployment. They have been out since then for short training. I'm hoping he'll be home for Christmas. He's doing great, although he's mess cranking. He was in the scullery but they moved him - dishpan hands! Hah, hah. I told him I would send him some yellow dishgloves. He just got a barracks so he's pretty excited to move off the ship.
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How far they have come. Congratulations to all of them!
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Congratulations on your new DIL to be. Yes, I have new pictures up from when he was home on leave. I'm going to get some tiger cruise pictures up this weekend. There are so many I have to pick through them!
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