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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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RTC Graduation

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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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Twins and multiples in the Navy

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This is a group for navy moms who have twins or multiples and at least one has decided to join the navy. Share experiences of how you are coping and also how your kids are coping with being without their sibling.

Members: 31
Latest Activity: Aug 29, 2020

Administrator <callsforrecruits@gmail.com> ro request calling cards

To request the free Military mailing kit:

https://www.usps.com/ship/apo-fpo-guidelines.htm

phone the Military Postal Service Agency at 1-800-810-6098.

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Discussion Forum

Handling the Twin Bond Relationship at Bootcamp

Started by Sierrascrapper (ETN2). Last reply by rebecca1957 Aug 29, 2020. 29 Replies 1 Like

I wanted to ask about this topic as it has a deep impact on how twins relate to each other. This will be good future reference for other Navy Twin Moms as their sons leave for BC. I only have one…Continue

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Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 22, 2013 at 9:16pm: Taking a bath, reading a book and then off to bed, last night was a sleepless night, my mind would not shut down, hoping that I can sleep tonight.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 22, 2013 at 8:44pm: Go Girl, Not many parent go to A school Graduation. I did not have the money to go. PIR however can not be missed. Lots of patriotic stuff. It will bring tears when you see your child marching in with a huge hall full of sailors.

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 22, 2013 at 8:41pm: I just told my husband that I plan on going to Pensacola when both boys graduate from their schooling, of course I will go to PIR, so this next year is going to be interesting, but I don't want to miss a thing and I love to travel. So we will see how it all goes, my parents will probably go to PIR with us so they will help with the cost and maybe they will go to Pensacola with us, they love to travel too and they are retired. I thank the Lord that my husband loves my parents as much as I do..

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 22, 2013 at 8:30pm: Oh this is fun you can get already done ones but it is better to make your own. I sent both boys a questionnaire after they had been in BC a while. They had to send answers back. Good for a great laugh. Sam wrote this is great I can be lazy and most of this letter is done for me. Interesting to see what each one's impressions, missed things, appreciations were.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 22, 2013 at 8:26pm: Shopping at a NEX is fun. You will be able to go on PIR day with your sailor. I have a shirt (ops almost had a LOL, almost forgot the r) a coffee mug, a water bottle and a visor, bought my Dad a grandpa of a sailor shirt.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 22, 2013 at 8:24pm: 3moysmom my son Steve was an IT at Pensacola and he classed up in two weeks but I think CatMom's daughter took longer, I think the Aviation school is worse.

We could not go with ours when they left. We took them to the recruiter and he drove them to Denver (6hours) that is why I sent them with cookies. They called and texted all the way till they were picked up in Chicago.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 22, 2013 at 8:22pm: Hey Disy...I wanted to say how much I LOVE your avatar photo. Twin 1 (Nathanael) found a card at a gift shop on our trip for me to send to Jonathan when I don't hear from him in a while. It says "Call your Mother...she frets about you!" It made me laugh...I'll be sticking it in a letter some day in the future for sure.

Comment by 3boysmom on July 22, 2013 at 8:11pm: Beautiful pictures. I call that "testosterone poisoning"

My son is IT and he classed up at Pensacola in a pretty short time. I think it was about two weeks. I had heard the horror stories of months of waiting, but that wasn't the case for him.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 22, 2013 at 8:10pm: So true CO-twin...I hate seeing my boys take such risks. Now they want to do this thing together called The Ultimate Rush. It's one of those bungee cord rides here in Reno at the Grand Sierra Resort. It takes them to the top of this arch and then drops them and they swing back and forth just feet off the ground. I guess I'm going to have to do that for them for their 18th birthday in a couple months. Not that I want to...but I know they want it, so I'll just have to suck it up. You can be sure I won't go there to watch them! LOL I'll just look at the photo they take on the ride afterward!

Disy...don't feel bad that you can't be there for your FS shipping out. I REALLY want to be there for mine when he goes...but it's a 6hr drive up to Boise and we might not be able to make it work out. We'll see...I have my hopes set on going...but in the end it might not be feasible financially, or even calendar-wise since my son will be leaving just before the 4th of July holiday and I work for a grocery store.

Comment by cathymgShip03Div367&ship11Div383 on July 22, 2013 at 8:00pm: Oh My, Steve is not mine and it scares me seeing that picture. When I went on the senior trip with the boys to Cedar point, I went on every roller coaster they had, I am a little scared but I also like the thrill, but when it came to watching the boys on some of the rides it almost made me sick.

Thanks for the money info!!