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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!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

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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Michelle  (Craigs Mom)

»» Welcome to the MEPS and DEP group ««

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»» Welcome to the MEPS and DEP group ««

Welcome!
We ♥ helping you understand the Navy!

Members: 1613
Latest Activity: Dec 21, 2023

Welcome to the
MEPS & DEP group...

We love helping deppers, recruits, sailors, and especially their families!!!

  • Don't understand the Navy?
  • Haven't a clue what is about to happen?
  • Do you just want to share your joys or sorrows?

Then this is the group for you!!!

We enjoy helping family member with all information or just to pass the time chatting.

Glad you're with us!

It is very important that your future Sailor be physically fit prior to shipping to the RTC (these are new standards beginning 1/1/2018) and that he be able to pass an initial run test. See Navy Sets New Physical Fitness Standard to Start Boot Camp. "The initial run standard is evaluated on the 1.5 mile run of the first Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) at boot camp. The initial run standard for male recruits will be 16 minutes 10 seconds and 18 minutes seven seconds for female recruits."

Discussion Forum

Nervous Mom

Started by AustinsMom. Last reply by LZ0183 Dec 21, 2023. 5 Replies

Questions about weight

Started by Happynurse Jun 23, 2023. 0 Replies

Leaving for BC in Dec 2019

Started by Regina126. Last reply by Velvetenor Oct 5, 2019. 2 Replies

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Comment by AngiePNMx2 on December 4, 2008 at 10:49pm
Doreen... All the feelings and emotions you have are normal!! and it is ok to feel them..My question is this...Knowing that your son is going to sign when he truns 18 wouldn't it mean more to him to have your blessing now than to wait and sign because he can? Remember your not losing you son...as bad as it hurts..How do I know?? I have already let one go to the Navy and he is qualified for SEALS too...so I know how you feel....now my second has joined at 17 with our permission of course. I knew he would at 18 anyway too. Is it any easier?? NO! I guess the one thing I try to keep in mind is that they were really never mine... God gave me these boys to grow and nurture but they have always been his..I found with my first son during a time when people from my church were praying for him right before he left for bootcamp .... I said to God "Lord I trust you and I release him to you" as I am bawling my eyes out an barely able to say it..Hardsest word I have ever said ....it all became easier in the sense that dayI knew it really wasn't up to me anyway. Did I still cry alot?? Do I still cry?? A resounding YES too both!! But when I do it isn't out of fear anymore it is out of pride and I miss him. The tears don't last as long now and it doesn't hurt my moms heart as bad either.... You too will come to that point. The point of trusting and letting go..... to let him become the man that God has in mind and planned.
Can you all imagine one year ago there was NO Navy for moms??? What did all the moms before us do?? No other moms to talk...no other moms to get info from?? When I joined March 1, 2008 I was number 46...We were all figuring things out together then and we will continue with 10,000!! We're here for you!! Together we will get you through!! Hugs to you!!
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on December 3, 2008 at 11:54pm
Cassie's mom my youngest son leaves next July too. We can be feeling the same together!!LOL
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on December 3, 2008 at 11:13pm
Jor-Jean- It might just how I feel but I think that it is Ok to see you break down but explain to him why...for your love for him, out of your pride for him, the part of letting go for you is hard, knowing he will the same young man but changed for the positive. He needs to know it isn't because you don't want them to go but because you are his mother and you will miss him and that is ok.
And you don't want to cry in front of him that is ok too. But know it will come out in the strangest places!! LOLGrocery store, at the post office, in the shower, where ever it hits. Remember every emotion you have has been felt by all of us Moms who have let go before to some degree or another... and they are normal!! You are not crazy!! Believe it or not the weeks will suddenly fly by and the next thing you know you will be at PIR and you will be crying happy tears of pride at the new yong man who is standing before you. We're here for you!! Lean on us to get you through because only other Navy Moms understand!!

Comment by Pat on December 3, 2008 at 6:47pm
Double Ditto for Kathryn's comment below! It is very important that our sailors-to-be, feel that we support their decisions 100%...I let my son know from the start that if he saw me with tears in my eyes...it wasn't sadness alone, but also pride in his decision, and the fact that life was changing.
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on December 2, 2008 at 6:46pm
Well I got to say I cried alot before my first son left and when he left for BC,I cried when I saw him the frist time at PIR and I cried when we dropped him off at the chapel the last day of Liberty PIR weekend, sometimes I cry just thinking about him...I can say now that when I cry at least now it doesn't happen as often and last as long or hurt as bad. I don't say good bye....to final...I say "see ya later!" Even though I may not know exactly when I will see him, I know I will see him later.

Now as my second son goes to DEP meetings I feel some of those old feelings that I thought were gone long ago but at least NOW I know that they are normal and I am not going to have a e-motional breakdown. My youngest will be easier in someways (been there, done that) but harder as he will be the last to leave the nest and he will be doing a different job. I'll let you know how that goes next year when he leave for BC!LOL
Take care moms...remember we are all in this together, we are here for one another and we will get through it!!

Hugs to all~ Angie
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on November 26, 2008 at 6:14pm
4 is the official # but if yoube my friend I can tell you how it works in a priviate mail.
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on November 25, 2008 at 1:20am
Getting a Flu shot isn't a bad idea...my oldest was sick from alomost the day he got there until PIR...he had to get a Z-Pack ac ouple of weeks in and was on light duty for a few days.
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on November 24, 2008 at 7:26pm
I wouldn't wait until bootcamp because if there happens to be any probelms they can be set back a week or more...which translates into more time in bc and possible going in to a different division than what they start in. Food for thought.
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on November 22, 2008 at 10:34am
Ladies this is what I did for my first so who left in Febafter Christmas and it was a hit and I will be doing this again for my second that is leaving in July.
Since he didn't need clothes or anything I got gift cards to his favorite fast food restraunts, the movie theater and the gas staion I put in a Giant and did the box with in a box that had a smaller box within a box but in each box he opened was a gift card.It was alot of fun!
Comment by AngiePNMx2 on November 18, 2008 at 12:06am
Michelle...Have you talked to her parents??? They definitely need to know waht she is doing. You are wise to be very supicious of this girl and to talk to the resourse officer...You go Mom!!
 
 
 

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