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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.
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Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:53pm 3 Comments 4 Likes
I know that a lot of people like to put countdowns on facebook or other social media pages, saying how excited they are until their Sailor (or Soldier or Marine or Airman) gets to come home, and we are all proud of and love our military members, and we all face many of the same struggles that go with the military lifestyle. And yes, it's our page, and these are our friends and family, and we should be able to say what we want and how we feel, but..... Here's a good article that talks about…
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Thanks for posting about what happens when a ship deploys and your suggestions for handling it. That was great. I haven't been through it yet, but it's coming within a year and I figured from things I'd seen before that I was not going to go and now I know I won't and I will save up and go when the ship comes back into port.
Also, if you post a reply and then see an error, click "Edit" under the reply and change the error. You have 15 minutes to do this after posting a reply to a discussion.
I just wanted to say how much I really enjoy your posts. Your advice is always so sound and you also are able to do it from a servicememebrs view as well as a spouse and mother. Thank you!
Awe well thank you - I have it set up so all the discussion posts and comments are sent to my phone - now I can take the "I miss him so much" and the "when are we getting married" and even the repetitive posts where they could have just read another before posting their question.
But the whole not trusting their sailors post got me fired up! I think that was the second time I've actually felt the need to comment lol
Just wanted to say you write some of the best replies I've seen. Your advice to the young lady in the GF group was excellent.
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-Colleen