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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

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Scrapbookin' Navy Moms

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Any Navy Mom that enjoys scrapbooking

Members: 180
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2021

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Comment by Susan mom to Niko on September 22, 2011 at 1:47pm: My advice is to pick one theme... for example... the first scrapbook I did was for my sons sports... I started with baseball and then moved thru soccer, scouts, youth group, holidays, etc...

I bought a large pack of various color solid paper and some patterned in the team colors... a few themed stickers and cut outs and went from there... my first pages are very basic... the pictures all mounted on coordinating paper... headlined pages with a few stickers or cut outs... the best thing I did was journal about the memories of that team or season!!

My pages have evolved a bit now... I have a cricut and can make them a little more detailed... pictures overlapped or cut into collages or shapes!! When I go back and look I am sometimes tempted to jazz up those first pages but have resisted doing so... it just shows the progression and my sons love looking back at the memories... they really don't care how fancy the pages are!!

Comment by Philly5 (Justin's proud mom) on September 22, 2011 at 1:21pm: HI LuvMysailor- Joanns, Hobby Lobby and Michaels are great places to look at. Creative Memories also- they are a party plan which would be a great place to start as maybe you can find someone who has classes in your area. good luck- it is so fun.

Comment by LuvMySailor!~Michelle on September 22, 2011 at 8:58am: Morning Ladies! Newbie here, at lots of stuff. I have always wanted to scrapbook and now that my kids (6) are old enough I have a LITTLE time. I don't know where to begin. I would like to know the best places to go and find "stuff" and basically where to start! What do I need?

Comment by Philly5 (Justin's proud mom) on September 21, 2011 at 9:01pm: suems2 - where in NC WI.? there are some nice stores in Wausau- JoAnn Fabrics has a nice scrapbooking section as does Michaels.

Comment by suems2 on September 11, 2011 at 10:33pm: Anyone know of a scrapbooking store in the northcentral Wisconsin area or what are some good websites?

Comment by Quiltlady on August 29, 2011 at 6:41pm: They had neat Navy material when I was there last.

Comment by Philly5 (Justin's proud mom) on August 29, 2011 at 5:49pm: i am so excited i found the US NAVY Scrapbook at Hobby Lobby woo hoo

Comment by Quiltlady on August 13, 2011 at 10:49pm: Right now I am working on the pics I took on our trip to Pensacola. My son graduated from A school and we were there. It was so cool to be a part of that. We spent 2 weeks and had a great time. I found a scrapbook store and bought some new Navy stickers and some paper for Pensacola. I will have to do 2 pages of the graduation part-- one for my book and one for my son's Navy book.

Comment by Nan(Ship 9 Div 247) on August 13, 2011 at 2:51pm: I love these ideas. I am just starting a scrapbook of my son's Navy Career as it begins. I have never done this before but it is my new passion.