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Choose your Username.  For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either).  Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username.  While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

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Join groups!  Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself!  Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

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.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind.  In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships."  OPSEC is everyone's responsibility. 

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.  

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**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).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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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Bahrain Moms

If you have a son or daughter in Bahrain or going to Bahrain heres the group for you!!!!!!

Members: 402
Latest Activity: Feb 26


Life in Bahrain
I have many moms asking me, hows life in Bahrain? So I thought I would put a few things together, post it and update, make corrections as I remember something. Well aside from the very hot sun, nice beaches,museums,malls on and off base,the sand storms , which reak havoc on the weapons some carry :). Here are a few thing that might help.

New Arrivals
1. 2 or 3 weeks of training and classes to learn Bahrain customs,laws and the Navys do's & don't's
2. Not allowed off base til the training is complete.
3. No family housing. Non military persons were removed after 9/11. ("09" spouses allowed back )
4. Lower rank personal(I'll check the rank) must live on base in barricks. Others live off base in rental units.

Duty
1. Shifts are 12 hours long.
2. No uniforms are to be worn off base at any time only civ's (civilian cloths)
3. Unlike the States, there week is Sunday - Thursday weekend is Friday and Saturday.

Misc.
1.They buy cell phones on base at the mall or Nex. They can call you for about 10 cents and send texts for 10 cent per text. (Tho in Bahrain they go by BD'S Bahrain Dollars).
NOTE: They CAN NOT text to some cell phone services. The ones I know are Nextel,Verizon and Sprint.
2. Everything they need can be bought on base at the mall or Nex. Even computers,tv's, music,movies .....everything......
3. Drinking: 18 is the legal drinking age in Bahrain on and off base.This goes for the military personal also with one Navy rule in order to buy/drink liquor or whiskey you must be 21, but at 18 they can consume/purchase beer and wine.

Mail
1. They have a on base post office. Which is closed I belive on Monday's.
2. On packages/letters you send DO NOT write Bahrain,middle east or Manama anywhere on the outside of the mail. This may make it arrive to the town P.O.(Manama) instead of onbase. The military ships its own mail but if it does not arrive to the state side base to be shipped to your sailor than its put on a internatial mail flight and sent to the town P.O. Your sailor will have a p.o. box with a FPO address on base only use the address he/she gives you and your return address. It will look something like this.
*Rank Name*
PSC ??? Box ???
FPO AE 09840-2800



http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/home.asp
http://www.bahraintribune.com/index.asp
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/bahrain/index.htm (This one is the base news)





Sailors on a Liberty Tour

U.S. NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY, Bahrain -- The Oklahoma City rock band "Hinder" peforms outside the NSA Bahrain's Freedom Souq June 22. The hundreds of attendees included service members assigned to NSA Bahrain and from visiting ships USS Peleliu (LHA-5), USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), USS Curts (FFG-38) and USS Dallas (SSN-700). The event was sponsored by the NSA Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson Bomjardim (Released)

Discussion Forum

re:Son going to Bahrain - I have so many questions!!!!

Started by julie(Shane's Mom). Last reply by DiG Jul 13, 2018. 15 Replies

Bahrain

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Our son has moved on ...

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Comment by Concernedad on October 16, 2014 at 12:00pm

Cryptodad, perhaps WE don't have the necessary means to control ebola. We obviously were not prepared for it.

Comment by Bran's Mom on October 15, 2014 at 1:45pm

Thank you for the info, so if we have Sprint I will call to see if someone can tell me if they have service in there.  We don't have any apple products so we can just face time with skype.

Comment by KC'smom on October 13, 2014 at 8:23pm

internet is free so they can Skype you or facetime you ( apple products).  It's awesome but the reception isn't always great.  But we get to see him!!!  By the way, my son is heading back there again in a bit.  :-(

Comment by CryptoDad on October 13, 2014 at 7:02pm

International cell service can get pretty pricey.

Skype is free.

Comment by Bran's Mom on October 13, 2014 at 6:26pm

My son is leaving for Bahrain in a couple of months, I noticed you stated they do not have cell phone coverage there with the common providers like Sprint.  So they have to pay for a phone and a plan thru a company there in Bahrain. This is a little confusing to me.  Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.

Comment by CryptoDad on September 23, 2014 at 2:45am

Concernedad,

I'd be a bit concerned if the US held back and did nothing.

The press loves a "plague". But put things into perspective: There have been 2,600 ebola deaths in Africa this year, There are 50,000 malaria deaths in Africa EVERY MONTH,

Ebola is a serious disease, but it is only a "plague" due to lack of sanitation and primitive medical facilities. We have the people trained to deal with that sort of thing. Why not stop it in Africa if we can?

Comment by BronxNYNewNavyMOM on September 22, 2014 at 12:18am
Does anyone know where a sailor must go and how long it takes to renew passports in Bahrain?
Comment by KC'smom on September 20, 2014 at 5:37pm
Sorry this off subject, but my son married his wife after A school ( they attended together ). She is Air Force & does not deploy. The separation has been a strain on their marriage & she is filing for divorce. Do you see a lot of marriages ending? He's only gone approx 6 months a year. I'm devastated :-(
Comment by ILoveMySailor on September 19, 2014 at 5:10pm
Do you all think welcome home military signs are dangerous to put up right now? With all that is going on...
Comment by Concernedad on September 17, 2014 at 12:37pm

Not to worry anyone, but shouldn't we be a bit concerned with Obama stating he will send in the military to aid the Ebola virus in Africa?

 

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