This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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We ♥ helping you understand the Navy!
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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 2 Likes
Leaving for BC in Dec 2019
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Comment by Stacy (mom of Ruthie) on February 22, 2009 at 3:57pm
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Hi :-) my girl leaves 3/10 for bc out of Pendleton....any moms of daughters leaving soon in the Southern Cal./Orange county area?
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Comment by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors on February 21, 2009 at 11:12pm
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I like the new look.
I just got back from visiting my nephew. He is in the Army, and is home for 2 weeks from Afghanistan. It was so good to see him! He wanted to visit with my boys so he could give some advice. I told him what I have learnd on this site. He said that the advice I have been getting is good. In fact what he had to say, I had already heard here.
I want to say Thanks to everyone. :)
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Comment by Melissa (Tucson) on February 21, 2009 at 7:27pm
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Hi All!
My son has been in the Navy for a year now and is on deployment in the Persian Gulf. I volunteer with the Tucson recruiters to help answer questions and get to know DEPPER parents. If any of you happen to live in Tucson and are interested in joining us once a month on a Saturday morning for a casual chat session, come join the Tucson Moms group:
Click Here
Us N4M's also meet for coffee and potlucks every month or so. We'd love to get to know you and hear about your recruit! :)
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Comment by Mari on February 19, 2009 at 7:39pm
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Thank you Lynn for the warm thoughts and cute graphics. I love angels and collect them, lol.
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Dianne I know how you must feel today. The cell phone advice is a great one, my son didn't take his with him but one of the other recruits had there's and shared it with the others and yes he called when he got to the airport to let us know how everything was. Please contact me anytime if you need to talk or a lending ear. I hope I get his address soon.
Michelle, I will definitely stay in this wonderful group and hope to add to any of the discussions in any way that I can.
I'm glad that you and your family are safe from the storms. I can totally relate to what you said about the phone. Last night I slept with two phones next to me including the cell phone. I think they will be attached to me for the next 8 1/2 weeks, lol.
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The day finally arrived yesterday and he's gone. I am so glad we got to see him swearing in at MEPS and then be with him at the airport until he left. It was overall a good day but a very difficult one.
I do have some advice I feel I can now offer with this experience. If you want to see your recruit swear in call the MEPS office and ask what time you can be there......we were told families couldn't go but when we called they said we were more then welcome to come and see him swearing in. Also, if you want to go to the airport have your recruit go to the ticket counter and there he can ask for a special pass which will allow you to pass the gate all the way in and see when he leaves. It was a very long day for us, started out at 6am and we didn't get home until about 6pm that evening.
I will now join over to the bootcamp moms group but if anyone has any questions which I can be of help to please don't hesitate to message me and I will be more then happy to answer any questions I can.
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Arlene,
I'm glad you were able to talk to your son. I told my boys about the call. Now they are thinking of all kinds of weird things to say to me when they call me from BC. I also told them that they have to wear clean boxers to BC. I do not want to open a nasty smelly box of dirty underwear! I think I have opened a can of worms! They don't leave until Aug. and Nov. The things they can think of between now and then! lol!
Happy Birthday Vicki! I hope you have been able to spend time with your son.
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Comment by AngiePNMx2 on February 17, 2009 at 10:14pm
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I forgot to say FEB 28 2008 is when my first sailor left and he is now in the fleet and getting reay for his first deployment. I didn't think that I would get through those first few days. MAR1 I found Navy for moms and I was number 40 something...Wow have I and N4Ms grown!! My second son will leave July 15 2009 so I am doing this all over again.
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To everyone who has a recruit leaving today and in the near future!! Everything you are feeling emotionally is normal from one to degree to the other. We are here for you all. The next 8 weeks go by faster than you think. I promise you will soon go from counting days/ weeks gone to days until PIR!! Welcome to the Navy!! HOOYAH new recruits and families!!
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Angie,
I am very gratful for all you said. This group has made it easier for me to understand all I am going through and I am not alone. I worry, but I know that I shouldn't. My first DEPPER wants to be a corpsman. He still lets me know that he wanted to be a Marine, but it was the Marine Recruiter that finally convenced him that in order to be a "medic" with the Marines, you have to be a Navy Corpsman.
There is so much for me to learn about the military! This site has been a true godsend!
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- What to bring to Boot Camp and what NOT- Females Stuff Only
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- The POW/MIA Table at every galley and at the Navy Day Ball...
- Navy Recruiting Manual Enlisted 1130.8J - Updated to 27 June 2012
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