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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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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Latest Activity: Apr 19, 2024

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."

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Comment by TexasMom on November 15, 2013 at 6:59pm: Hi Y'all!

This site is terrific! Don't know what I would've done without it. My DEPr leaves 20 Nov to BC. Does anyone else have a DEPr leaving from San Antonio TX that day?

Comment by Bethin NY (Ship 11 025) on November 6, 2013 at 9:41am: I just finished reading Honor, Courage & Committment by J. Leahy. It's a well sritten book about Navy BC @ Great Lakes. I got it on Amazon for cheap....I recommend it to any parent as well as to any future Sailor who hasn't left yet. Though it's a bit old (?2009), the routines are probably the same. Wish I had read it prior to my son leaving, but REALLY wish he had read it.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on October 29, 2013 at 1:14am: K10Mom...i was hoping one of the admins would respond first. However, your best bet is to have her write the addresses on a piece of paper and put it in the wallet she brings our the small Bible that she may bring. You dont want to chance the fact that the address book may be sent back home.

Comment by k10mom (Ship 14, Division 146) on October 27, 2013 at 8:01pm: Ok, I read that your recruit could bring a small address book, her start up packet only says a small bible. Can someone please let me know if her very small address book is allowed?

Comment by VeganMom on October 23, 2013 at 6:40pm: Son leaving for boot camp May 2014 going for Logistics Specialist. I have no idea what that is. But I have time to find out and spend with him.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on October 23, 2013 at 3:30pm: You can get through this VeganMom. This is a good time to start getting used to the idea of him being away from you. I remember having trouble concentrating at work all day when my son went to MEPS for the first time and then balled my eyes out after he called me with his ship date. I wasn't really crying out of sadness, but more of thinking about my boy growing up and becoming a man. I still have plenty of "moments", but I'm very excited for his future.

Comment by VeganMom on October 23, 2013 at 8:21am: My son is on his way to MEPS to pick his job. ...I am so nervous and excited. I will keep my phone close awaiting his call. No caffeine this morning. He is my middle child I have always had a special love and worry for him as a typical middle son. Thank goodness I have work to distract me some. Wish I had went with him. .. but he is a man and said no he can handle it. Wow I was surprised and proud all at the same time. It kind of hit me. .... he is no longer my baby boy... he is all grown up...a man. ... and I have to let he go.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on October 23, 2013 at 1:32am: I sure can relate Smoney77. I felt so alone and scared and confused when my son first told us he wanted to join the Navy. But I was also very excited for him. We really supported his decision and encouraged it when he told us. It was definitely a complete surprise. As soon as he told us and even before he went to MEPS, I discovered this site. It set me so much more at ease and helped me to understand that my feelings were normal. I'm not really afraid for him as much as just concerned that he will complete all of his training. My son is going into the Nuclear Field and I've read how difficult the program is. I know he is excited and up for the challenge. I am trying to prepare myself for all the worry in the future. I have made some wonderful friends on N4M already and even have met a couple Moms inin person. They have made me feel so much a part of the Navy family. It really helps to have people who can relate to you and what you are experiencing.

Comment by sevenblessings on October 22, 2013 at 10:37pm: sierrascrapper - I have another son that is 21 months younger than my future sailor...and I think he is going through the same thing yours did. All of the attention is on his brother, and he is feeling left out...but at the same time I think he is starting to realize how much he is going to miss him. I am so glad that there is this site, so I don't feel so alone. Everyone keeps telling me "you should be so proud!!" and I am, but I am so scared for him and sad that I will miss him terribly! They don't understand this roller coaster that I am on like all of you do.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on October 22, 2013 at 9:49pm: That is so sweet Smoney77. I can't imagine how hard it will be for her and your son. I have twins and I'm still wondering how it's going to affect them being apart. They are very competitive and actually don't get along very well. Maybe this will bring them closer. There was a lot of drama when my DEPper joined as the other twin was feeling like he wasn't getting any attention. Things have settled down since June, and they seem to be confiding in each other and hopefully strengthening their brotherly bond. I'll tell ya, not aa day goes by that I don't get choked up over something when I think about my son leaving for BC. Some days it's pure pride and other days it's sadness or both.