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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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For all Parents, etc that has a Sailor that has or is Currently serving on the Flag Ship of the 7th Fleet. A place where we can connect, discuss concerns & share stories about our Sailors on this ship. I look forward to hearing from all of you...
Members: 55
Latest Activity: Jan 13, 2019
Discussion Forum
Blue Ridge
Started by Myangels. Last reply by Rhonda Nov 29, 2018. 1 Reply 1 Like
What does your sailor do?
Started by CCR. Last reply by ldk Jan 17, 2013. 28 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by CCR on September 8, 2009 at 10:51am
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Did you see the BR pictures on FB? there are two so far... They shoved off already and the picture is of the mooring lines, and the quartermaster plotting.
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he says they are leaving tomorrow. which is today.
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Comment by KTSNavymom Kathy on September 5, 2009 at 1:24pm
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They were recommending that all of the sailors have passports just in case they do ask for them. I know Katie's is in her maiden name and has to get that changed. But she probably forgot to do this LOL knowing her.
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I hadn't heard from my sailor all week, and then he was on FB chat last night. Said he'd been on the ship for 3 days...!!!!! I didn't know. Said some of the older ones are gone, and there's a lot of new ones now, that they are leaving due to -no one is getting their re-enlistment bonuses. Some leaving to civilian life, some to the Army. Had any of you heard this? First it was reduced about 3 months ago, now its zero.
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I send everything Priority mail Katie get's it within a week sometimes sooner!!
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I was reading on the page with the picture of the waves, and an OLD USSBR sailor was saying how the "new Ones" were seasick. There will always be those veterans, and those that are new, and those that havn't even boarded yet, LOL!
So, we had a discussion in the ET/FC group about seasickness, and someone mentioned crystallized ginger... and said all the other remedies didn't help much. anyone else have some ideas? I'm sure I'd be sick... even though I grew up on a sailboat and water skiing with a motor boat. Its different, isn't it, when its a big ship and the seas are really rough...
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so glad you got the call Kathleen. I know how it comforts you.
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YEAHHHH a phone call I missed Katies call tonight I was still at work so her daddy got to talk to her
She told him they were following the typhoon in and boy the ship was rocking and lots of people were sea sick.
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CCR go check the Nav news site there are 1057 pics there of the Blue Ridge here's the link
www.navy.mil/search/photolist.asp
Yes they are always doing community service projects. Tell your son they have to sign up for them, Katie didn't know that her first trip out, she does now. I was trying to add the pic I found of Katie in this post but it only shows up as a link?? anyone know what I'd doing wrong? Oh well I did post it in my pics on my page she was at an Intellectually Challenged home for Adult & Children it shows her giving a girl her Blue Ridge Patch.
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Yokosukabase.com ?? I didn't know they had this website TY CCR did you register on it? There are lots of pics on this website most of them I've seen but there were a few I hadn't seen yet. That's right they have to pick your son up.
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