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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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This site is for families and friends of Salilor Recruits with PIR THURSDAY, December 29, 2011. This is a great way to share information, concerns and to connect as we continue the journey through bootcamp to PIR and beyond.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
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Black out a couple lines?.... Geez, the 11 yo in my neighborhood know more curse words than I do, and I'm a sailor...
Any of the stuff I write you are welcome to use. Hopefully this will put a small idea in their heads and maybe they will want to be a sailor later on in life. I write that stuff to motivate the deppers on my website. We have alot of cool sailors that most people don't even know about....
Craig@ Thanks for the infromation on famous vets. I teach 6th grade. The kids will love it! I learnded alot too. John Dillinger......news to me. Do I have you permission to print some of this for my class? Of course I might have to "black out" a line or 2. They are only 11.
ilovemysailor - I hope you don't mind...I'm going to copy and paste the RTC info over hear...thank you so much for providing the link. It will still be good to check the link as time goes on as folks will ask questions.
I will also make a Discussion for it up above with RTC's post and the link, k?
Holiday leave for Training Group 6 (those graduating Dec. 29) will begin at 1600 (4 p.m.) Dec. 29 and expire at 2359 (11:59 p.m.) Jan. 8. All recruits will depart RTC that same day, whether they are staying at Great Lakes or going out of state for A School. Recruits graduating Dec. 29 will have three options following graduation:
1) Not request leave and go directly to their A School as planned, departing from RTC.
2) They may have someone pick them up and stay within 75 miles of the base. Airline tickets will be issued from Great Lakes to their next command where their A School is located. There will be no reimbursement for local transporation. So, if they go somewhere within 75 miles of the base, they must pay for their own transportation to return to Great Lakes.
3) They depart from RTC and go on leave out of the area. They will do so at their own expense. They are responsible for getting to their A School at their own expense. Once they are at A School, they can then file for a travel claim. They will only receive travel pay at the government rate for what the flight would have cost to ship them from Great Lakes to their A School. So, they are paying for their own flight home and will only receive reimbursement for the flight from home to their A School, and that reimbursement will only be equaled to the cost of what it would cost to fly from Great Lakes to their next command. Should a recruit not graduate for any reason, the command will not reimburse any travel costs.Recruits will be instructed and given the opportunity to purchase their own airline tickets if they choose to go home. Please coordinate/communicate with your recruit if you are going to be purchasing their airline tickets for them. They will instruct you where you will need to send their itineraries here at RTC.
YAY Dianne! That is sooooooo great! Praying that it is a fun and relaxing time for you...you deserve some time for yourself. Always praying for you and your family dear!
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