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Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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Any Navy Mom that enjoys scrapbooking
Members: 180
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2021
Discussion Forum
Memorabilia for your Sailor's Scrapbook
Started by Sierrascrapper (ETN2). Last reply by PKM Apr 17, 2018. 7 Replies 2 Likes
Smashbook
Started by kakhimedson. Last reply by kakhimedson Mar 17, 2014. 2 Replies 1 Like
Scrapbook in a BOX
Started by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons. Last reply by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons Sep 2, 2013. 14 Replies 4 Likes
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Comment by CArol on June 13, 2012 at 12:49pm
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OK Ladies - you are motivating me to get to work! I started a scrapbook for my son, and am stuck at Boot Camp! Lots of letters, but no photos. The RTC fb page is a great idea...I printed some of his PIR photos from there, but didn't think of the day to day ones just for interest on those pages :) I'm only about a year behind....typical!
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Comment by Susan mom to Niko on June 13, 2012 at 12:27pm
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Hey Rose... I also use shutterfly... has been great to use the share pages they allow for other family members to log in and see his photos... and the photos that I take at ballet, band, plays, soccer, basketball, camping, birthdays, etc of my nieces and nephews... seems my family is so used to my picture taking now they don't worry about bringing cameras!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 13, 2012 at 10:18am
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I did that as well Quiltlady and I did searches online and looked through photos on this site for PIC of RTC that you are not allowed to take when you are there. I got some great pics and I was lucky enough to get a pic from Captains cup with my daughter in it and got pics of her singing with the choir a couple weeks before her own PIR.
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Comment by Quiltlady on June 13, 2012 at 9:51am
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I also printed pictures from the RTC facebook page about bootcamp and made pages for my son's scrapbook. Things like Captain's cup, getting their haircut, PT, uniform fittings. He is not in any of the pictures but it will give a sence of what bootcamp was like when he was there. I also added a newspaper clipping about the huge snowfall they got from our paper during his time there. Sometimes you have to be creative when you are not there taking pictures.
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That is a great idea Quiltlady. I will share this info with my daughter whome we expect to be deployed soon.
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you could always scrap postcards if he sends some to you. my husband would collect postcards, stamps and money from each of his ports. adding these things really makes his scrapbook pages more interesting. it also helps to remember dates and places later down the road. it is fun to look at his pictures of coming home from the ship's point of view and mine from the pier's point of view. we never thought to have someone else take a picture of us together when he got home.
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I agree we need to be more chatty here! I check daily and am guilty of not posting~ My son just returned from deployment and I spent his first couple of days home pestering him to get me a set of his pictures! He has a lot of pictures from his port stops! HURRAH! Of course not many with him in them but his buddy says those pics are on his camera... so now I wait for the buddy to make some copies... those silly boys!!
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Welcome to this group CreativeVi, this group a=is not nearly as active as I would like it to be lol. I love scrapbooking :-) You will see my scrapbook in a box above and I even posted directions for it so check it out. We have a new facebook group for Navy Families. It has some going through bootcamp now and several of us who have Sailors already. It is becoming a good mixture of people and everyone is just starting to get to know each other. Anyone who would like to join it just let me know. here is the link I wanted to invite all of you to join a new facebook group for navy families and friends. https://www.facebook.com/groups/327167160695549/
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Comment by CreativeVi on June 8, 2012 at 2:58pm
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OK, so I'm new here, was sad for a while cause my son just got verbal orders to Japan... BUT now I'm finding a NavyScrappin!!! Yahooooooo, I'm OK now. Hoping to make some great friends here. Vi
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That is awesome momoftwosons. What an amazing journey he is having :-)
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