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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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Scrapbookin' Navy Moms
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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 Susan mom to Niko on July 12, 2009 at 6:20pm
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That is an attitude check for sure!!! Love it!!!
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Comment by Irene McClure on July 5, 2009 at 3:12pm
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Hey my scrapbook friends-Navy family-It's been some time that I have been here. I have joined 2 groups-one scraps every Friday and the othert one is 1 time a month. I have been trying to get projects done during the summer.This Friday I am going to the Scrapbook Expo in Duluth,Ga.-They tell me I will fine a lot of great deals there.I am so excited.
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Good tip Barbara... bet that will make the process quicker... I have been using one of my camping pot scrubbers (kind of like a credit card but has a little 'handle') to lift the corner and kind of chip away at the back. But floss is a great idea!
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Hey,,, those sticky plastic paged albums were the best thing around at one time... I have several books of them myself... Hoping to finish getting them all pulled this summer... how quickly the time flies by...
Julie's niece may never understand but I bet there are lots of other family members that will treasure the memories!
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To me that is the purpose of scrapbooking... to put the memories (pictures and stories) into the hands of our next generation... My sons are 15 years older than one family of cousins who live an airplane ride away. At one time they were questioning if my sons loved them as we only saw them 3-4 times a year. Putting a kid friendly scrapbook together was the answer. Pictures of all the times we had spent together... they loved it and no longer question that they are loved!!!
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Those are fun pages... I am sure he will love the book. Something he can look over when missing home! And not so 'much work' that if it is lost or spilled on that you will be crushed... Those are the favorite books and the ones that I have drifted into making... Books for my nephews and nieces... of a soccer season or a weekend togeher skiing... then they can remember all the fun!
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Gosh take some pictures and share the pages above... we would love to see!
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Teri... easiest thing is to just pick one or two or three favorite pictures from an event and make a couple of pages... when I started I was overwhelmed. Best advice I ever got was to pick one event and just start. So I started with my sons soccer pictures, then moved to baseball, scouts, youth group and finally have tackled the many, many family pictures.
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Figured they don't have much room to store stuff... would be something fun I could send and he could have a chuckle with... Of course most of the stuff I send other deployed guys is mostly silly stuff...
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I love that idea... I am putting together a scrapbook for my son that each page is an 'inspiring' word from the alphabet... I found a quote or will write a note and put pictures from his childhood on each page... was fun but challenging for X... I am holding it until he is deployed. Then figure I will send the book with the first page and a note... follow up with the other pages... Then he can have a something for his curtain on the ship that will change and a place to put the other pages... I may just send color photo copies and save the 'real' pages for when he gets home!
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