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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)
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Started by nicole~a sailors girl(:. Last reply by andrea d May 14, 2013. 31 Replies 3 Likes
How did you and your Sailor meet? How long have you been together? Comment and leave one good story of your time together<33 I thought this may be something new to get people involved:DContinue
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Hello ladies,I am new to the Navy life and my fiance is stationed in Norfolk. His mother told me to find a group on here to chat with especially since he is going to be deploying soon.Continue
Started by Kait. Last reply by Crystal Feb 20, 2013. 6 Replies 0 Likes
My boyfriend left yesterday for basic training in chicago! I know he wont be able to write for about two weeks but I started to write him because I want to everyday. Anyone have any advice? I dont…Continue
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Sounds awesome whitney!!!!
Welcome Brittany, not much conversation here lately I had no computer access, everyone here is realllllyy friendly and has tons of great advice. I myself was a navy gf, and that didn't work, was with him all the way through basic and we mutually split it off. I am joining myself, and lone behold, fell in love with a boy in my Delayed Entry Program pool, so here I am, a navy girlfriend again, and mine ships to basic June 6th, it's creeping up really quickly, and it will be MUCH more difficult than the first time. My best advice I can give you is no news is good news and break down the time. Focus on making it through a week, or til the next letter or til something big, it will pass the time faster, but on thebright side, YOU'RE ALMOST THERE(: Will you be attending his PIR?
I was out town doing wedding stuff, and being Maid of Honor in my best friends Wedding! so exciting!
Sorry to hear about that Corie.
well, these two guys just got dropped from seals and so they are now IS and my sailor has been hanging out with them pretty much non stop for the last few weeks. He had mentioned seals while he was in DEP but when we found out i was pregnant he didn't really talk about it again until now. I'm hoping that maybe once we move to dc and he isn't hanging out with those guys anymore then he won't want to do it... that's wishful thinking though.
I think i'm kind of stuck in a rough spot because if it's what he really wants to do I want him to do it because I don't want him to resent me for not letting him try. I just wish he wanted to stay with us and just be an IS. Maybe this coming weekend I'll try to bring it up to him.
wow, sara. he dropped a pretty big bomb on that one huh?
maybe it was something he's gotten interested in?
did you talk to him about how difficult it would make things?
i think being that you're married with a son it would be completely okay to share your concerns with him about this whole seal thing.
soo, i went down to base to see my sailor this weekend.. it was good, not great but good. I'll take good any day though. The MA's at the gate were dumb and wouldn't let me on base without the run around. That's a long story though. Then the navy lodge was all booked up so I ended up not even needing to get on base because I stayed off base hahaha. OH WELL!
while I was there my sailor decides to tell me that he's going to put in his bud/s package (to be a seal) once we get to dc. It typically takes a year to get approved. I'm pretty upset about it. Even if he doesn't make it through bud/s or even indoc training, he's basically asking to be separate from his family and go train in great lakes then california. I don't understand why someone would want/choose to do that. Joe is so little and in a year Joe will be about 18 months old if his dad leaves for an extended period of time how on earth do I explain that.. Joe won't remember who his dad is when he comes back. I just don't understand what has to be SO bad here that he wants to go so far away. I'm pretty torn apart by the whole thing. I didn't really express that to him because it's his life all i said was "I think that should have been a pre getting married talk." and he said "sorry" UGH. I just don't get it. It's just not fair. I feel like I make so many sacrifices just so he can be in the Navy. I am basically a single parent, I financially support myself, I take care of all of his financial stuff/doctors appointments/dental appointments. whatever. If he goes to try to be a seal this won't get any better, and if he DOES make it and is a seal... I dont know if I'm prepared for/want that lifestyle for me or for my son.
That's my venting for the day, sorry ladies!
I think it's funny that I'd still choose this group over the wives group or any other group to vent on. haha
I agree Liv!!
I'm in the same boat. It's gonna be tough, but I think we're more than capable of dual navy lives(:
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