Author: Michael

As Juneteenth approaches, please be aware of the upcoming closures for your recruit’s basic training mailroom. To ensure your letters reach your recruit before the holiday weekend, please look over the closure dates listed below. These dates are subject to change depending on the needs of the Command at each base.
In addition, the Sandboxx print room is closed on Thursday, June 19th.
If you have any questions, please reach out to our Customer Happiness Team.

Key Dates
Tuesday 6/17: Ensure Delivery for all Bases before Juneteenth  – Final Print at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time.

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As the hard-boiled cop from Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” films asked the punks he arrested: “Do you feel lucky?” After seven decades in the entertainment industry, veteran Eastwood probably has an answer to that question for himself.
An actor, director and even musician, he became the icon of Hollywood icons. He has not only thrived through the ups and downs of a competitive industry, he also succeeded in a short stint as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

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The Navy just dropped a new series of recruiting ads for its special operations jobs, and there are a few things you won’t see in them.
Sand. Uniforms in desert camo. Mountains. Trucks. Trees.
On the surface, the ads invite a certain kind of young person to consider life as a special operator — a girl who saves a drowning child at a lake, a boy that makes the big play in a football game — but the real message is in the visual language used in the spots which suggests that the future sailors of Naval Special Warfare will not be spending any of their time or missions on dry land.

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