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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:

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**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).

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

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

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in July

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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in July...I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of July of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 808
Latest Activity: Jun 27, 2023

Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of July(although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!

If you have July ship out issues/questions etc., need specific information, (or have some to share) or just want to talk to someone that is where you are, with a Recruit leaving for and arriving in BC in July, ...then this is the place to be. :-)

Remember, don't "miss 'em while you're with them!" :) Make the most of every precious moment together before they leave. This will be a big transition for both of you! We'll be here for you every step of the way...
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Things to do in the last month before your future sailor leaves

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Once your recruit has arrived at RTC, the next stop here is to join the group Boot Camp for Moms (and loved ones) Hangout and ask questions in this group until your form letter arrives.

***New news just out today (9/25/19) from the US Navy Recruit Training Command FaceBook page:

Attention families and friends of RTC: Previously, upon arrival to boot camp, recruits would box up their civilian belongings and ship it to their choice of destination. Our new procedure now has those boxes being stored locally and will be returned to the recruits the day before graduation. The new procedure went into effect this week beginning with Div. 409 in Training Group 52.

Approx two to three weeks after your recruit arrives you will receive the "Form Letter". The form letter will include their Ship# , DIV #, their mailing address, PIR date, and the Security Access Form. The Security Access form needs to be completed and sent back to your recruit ASAP. Keep this letter in a safe place, it has the information you will need.

The date that is on the form letter is the official date for your Recruit's Training Groups PIR (graduation), Things can always change for an individual Recruit (due to illness, injury, failure to pass a final test etc.)! So, we always recommend that you plan, if possible, to purchase Refundable or Exchangeable plane tickets.

After you have received the form letter, join the group for your recruits PIR. There you can ask questions about PIR, training, hotels etc.Those groups will be posted in the Boot Camp for Mom's group.

Thanks for joining us. We hope you will realize you are not alone, and will soon make new friends, plus feel supported and encouraged! :)

**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 Fitness Standards"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 37 seconds for female recruits."

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Comment by diannep on June 30, 2010 at 9:33pm: Mary (Dereck's mom): I'm so "with ya" on the 2 sets of emotions...
Yah, his gone and I miss him! Kind of the "Love/hate" thing maybe....I felt the same way when my son left, but still did the HAPPY DANCE whenever I got a letter or call from him (the "miss him" times). Right now, I'm mad at him...so kind of glad he's gone! :-)

Comment by Dyl's Mom 943 on June 30, 2010 at 8:25pm: Sara, I haven't joined the OK mom group yet. You meet at the El Chico's in Tulsa? Do you have quite a few that show up? I'll have to check out the site and get aquainted with all the OK mom's! Thanks for the heads up!

Comment by Angie(Ship 11 Div 293) PIR 0902 on June 30, 2010 at 5:44pm: My son will be leaving to go to Meps on the 8th and then the airport. Does anyone have a son/daughter leaving from Kansas around that time.

Comment by Dyl's Mom 943 on June 30, 2010 at 7:12am: Sara, do you live in Oklahoma? We live in Oklahoma City. Dylan goes to MEPS on the 12th and leaves on the 13th. Too bad they're not going at the same time.

Comment by diannep on June 29, 2010 at 7:28pm: PeggyM: Welcome to our "horse gene" group! :-) By the way, the horses down here in my part of the country are in dire need of owners and help. So many abandoned, found starving, but a wonderful group, SPC, is taking care of as many as they can. I would imagine that this is going on in alot of places. I'm planning to send a donation in. If I could keep one in my house, I would take one! :-)

Comment by diannep on June 29, 2010 at 7:24pm: kk: Thanks for the invite! We actually had a Tennessee Walker and then a good ole cow horse, Buddy (my favorite). In my foolish days, I rode him bareback...OUCH! Not such a great gait to be bareback! My friend had a horse that I swear looked like a mule (only bigger). He never gallopped...only ran in the weirdest way. But "Dandy" and "Buddy" would start racing each other with my friend and me on their backs...bareback. Probably pretty stupid...but we loved it! That friend and I are still best friends today...must be the horse bond!
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Ok, all of you ladies feeling dizzy, nauseous, headachey, etc....this too shall pass! Just think....probably sometime in Oct, you will be sitting front and center in the PIR hall, with the beautiful fall leaves outside, watching your new sailors in their dress uniforms....stand straighter than you have every seen! So concentrate on that! I couldn't stop staring at mine....something many did with their new sailors. You just sit there and think.....WOW! So, just consider your suffering now a bit of boot camp for yourselves while your recruits are going through THEIR "thing"....and all will be all smiles at PIR! It's the BEST!

Comment by PeggyM on June 29, 2010 at 6:59pm: well Courtney is finally on her way home from her vacation, the next 2 weeks are MINE!!! and ladies, we have horses too, so we are all truly family!!!!

Comment by AyshaBMom ship09 Div75 on June 29, 2010 at 5:34pm: Hopefully my other post went through but in case it didn't . Hello everyone , My son will be leaving on July 27th, he hasn't shown much emotion yet but i think he's excited about going and belonging period . We are a military family already so hopefully this will help him and us get through it all . I look forward to getting to know and meet alot of you .

Comment by AyshaBMom ship09 Div75 on June 29, 2010 at 5:31pm: where do we find the dates other deppers are leaving ? or do we just post it in our posts here and just read till we find someone that matches ?

Comment by diannep on June 29, 2010 at 4:37pm: jmy37: It will help if he gives you "attitude" for the few days before he leaves...makes it easier to say goodbye...but that doesn't last long...you'll still miss him....but it gets much better after the first 3 weeks for you. Hang in there!

navymom2soon: Don't worry...the Navy seems to have a KNACK for knowing how to make the recruits "complete" things....and the right way! Like throwing their whole racks on the floor and making them make it all up again. So...just put the parenting control in the hands of the Navy for a while! He will grow up alot there...maybe unwillingly at first....but eventually it sets it.

kk: Once your recruit leaves, add boot camp moms (if you aren't already on that) and your PIR group to your "groups." I actually suggest that all ofyou get on boot camp now because there is alot of good info on there to share with your recruits before they leave...like knowing that they don't receive any mail for at least the first 2 weeks....so many think no one is writing to them....then that first day, they get a ton of letters at once! I'm sure you will stay on this one too, but your PIR group will become your lifeline with other ladies who have recruits in your son's same ship.

By the way, kk, I had horses when I grew up....loved them and went riding often....had model horses all over my room. Horses are so dear to my heart...