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Anybody with Ship 12 DIV 053?
Hi everyone! My husband shipped off the boot camp Nov. 29 and is in Ship 12 Div 053. Any one else have a sailor in that division?
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Permalink Reply by kmoff09 (Ship 12, Div. 053) on
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I am also waiting on the DoD Form 1172. Did he tell you when to be expecting it?
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Permalink Reply by winterrosebud (Ship 12 Div 053) on
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Just found out this morning that the letters containing the forms got returned to all the guys in the division. They are going in the mail today so we should be getting them sometime next week.
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Permalink Reply by Alicia(12/053 - AO)♥ on
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What is the DoD form?
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The form allows you to get your military id made.
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Permalink Reply by orderentry on
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My son had to have all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. Just received the letter yesterday. Yikes!
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If you guys are on Facebook, there is a page for U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command. They hold a trivia contest every Tuesday at noon (central time) and if we answer the question first, they will post a picture of our Division! There's also a forum on the left with our Ship & Division.
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Hope everyone had a great Christmas in spite of the fact of SR's are gone. This will be the first of many holidays they will be gone over the course of their military career. I saw this posted earlier and it helped me understand the meaning of only writing on Sunday's and limited phone calls.
To all those disappointed in not hearing from your recruits for Christmas: this isn't personal. They don't do this to be cruel, it's mental conditioning to prepare future sailors and their loved ones for the reality of going to sea. At sea there are no days off for holidays, birthdays or anniversaries, and precious few phone calls home. Boot camp replicates these conditions.
*They get to call home at predetermined times, such as scheduled port calls This is the three "guaranteed" calls. They are planned port visits. And like a ship, if someone's on watch they may miss out on the fun.
*They are promised calls home, then the calls don't happen. This replicates a ship planning a port call, but the ship gets rescheduled elsewhere or a storm prevents the ship from pulling into port. On my ship we were once told we would be 3 days at sea. I had a $2,000 flight planned the 5th day to visit my then-fiancé overseas. We were at sea for 6 days. No one cared about my flight. There was no offer to reimburse me for the $400 it cost to change flights.
*They get individual random calls home for no apparent reason. Ships' crew phones are turned on and off according to operational need, and are often broken. Some ships have crew phones, some do not.
*They can only post mail once a week. This replicates typical ships' mail systems, they send mail out only when they meet up with a ship or helo that can transport the mail to the right place. Sometimes there is no helo.
*One recruit's screw up can cancel a planned extra call or trip to Ricky Heaven (an arcade/food court/mini-mall at boot camp). This replicates what really happens on ships in the Navy. A captain has the leeway to plan for occasional liberty port visits. It happens that if one person or a group screws up, the captain can and will cancel the port visit, messing things up for the whole crew.
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I wanted to wish you all a very Happy and Safe New Years!! Only 34 more days :) YAY!!!
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Hello all! Happy New Year! Hope everyone is doing well :) There has been converstaion on the main PIR 02/03/12 page about the divisions wearing the same color scarf to PIR so we can easily find each other. One other member from our division suggested navy blue as our color. Are you all interested in this? I think blue would be a great color. Gold, red and purple seem to already have been taken by other divisions. Just thought I'd get the converstaion going in our group here :) Have a gerat week everyone!
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Permalink Reply by mandyruth12 on
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I'm very new to all of this! So, what exactly do the scarves mean??
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Permalink Reply by eljac913 (Ship 12 Div 053) on
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Hi everyone for Ship 12 Div 053.....I think we are going with blue as our color for wearing scarves. Any objections?
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I think I have a bluish scarf!! My sailor's mom or I will have one. :)
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