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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.
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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in April
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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in April...I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of April of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 470
Latest Activity: Jul 21, 2022
Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of April (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!
If you have April 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 April, ...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 (Click on the link.)
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 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
View discussions in the DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in April forum!
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Comment by joshuasmom(ship06div929) on April 15, 2010 at 6:53pm
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hey girls...i got a letter from josh today. he is so homesick...he said everytime he thinks of me and home he wants to cry. he said its not what he thought it would be and that he sees now all the things he took for granted when he was home. apparently he is sick also....which could be why he is so down. the letter was written on sunday. i immediately wrote back with a pep talk reminding of everythng he had to do and give up to get there...stuff others couldnt have done or been willing to do. and that i was ok to miss home but he wasnt a quiter and it would all get better soon. of course the entire time i'm writing him this letter i'm having a breakdown! it hurts so much to know he is homesick... and i cant help him. at least i FINALLY have a real address. the one the recruiter gave me was wierd and nothing like the one josh gave me. hope everyone has a good night.
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good morning kathy, josh is going to A school in GL. what about david? hope everyone has a great day today...i'm waiting on the mail lady again today!
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Comment by kathyjeanba (ship 6/Div 929) on April 15, 2010 at 1:06am
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Jessica, thanks for the sock insight. I'll go back and read his letter again (for about the 6th time.) My husband didn't get it either so I don't feel bad about misunderstanding. He kept telling David how BC would be and I kept reminding him that it's a different branch and different times...David was a good son and didn't roll his eyes too much at us! Joshuasmom, where is Josh doing his A school? Is he a grad & go or is he staying at GL? Or, is that too far down the line to think about right now? ;-) I found a section of "thinking of you" type cards at Hallmark for the military. Most of them at my location were more for sweethearts but I found a couple that were Mom appropriate. wglover, sometimes I'm surprised at how well I doing then a moment creeps up on me where I think "is this for real?" I'm lucky to have a supportive group of co-workers who have been hearing about my kids for 20 years and a couple of them have sons that went into the guard a few weeks ago. To hijack a phrase: We're the few, the proud, the military Moms!
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Comment by MV (Ensign Boone's mom) on April 14, 2010 at 10:01pm
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Just got my son's address from my daughter-in-law! So excited!!! He's in Ship 07 DIV 203...anyone else in this same group???
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kathy, i'm so excited that your david is in the same ship and div as josh! i feel like when josh was in school and i would call my sisters and find out who their kid got as a teacher or which class they got!! i guess no matter how old they get somethings never change. still have no letter only the box. how did you get a letter? now i'm jealous :) lol but at least we know they are eating good!! a main concern for me...josh is a big eater....if they get cereal he is in heaven. that boy eats cereal in a mixing bowl and uses a serving spoon to eat with... wglover, numb and grumpy is the norm here somedays...its ok...alot of us here were right in the minute you are in last week...i can say for me, i take it day by day. and i come here and talk to moms who really get what i'm feeling. we are here for ya and we totaly understand. i'll be praying for you!
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Comment by Shelly/Ethan's Mom Ship07Div206 on April 14, 2010 at 9:33pm
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I so love this site. My son Ethan left yesterday and I got the call at 11PM last night. I am so full of so many different emotions but it really looks like they are pretty normal after reading everyones post. I came home today and smelled his shirt and told him I loved him then I cried. All I can think today is how much he loves his sleep and that I bet he wished he would have taken his sisters advise on taking a nap on the plane. His sister said last night that she suddenly had a thought that people were yelling at him and she wanted to go to GL and kick butt. I am now just waiting for the box and my letter so I can start sending him his daily letter. I so miss that kid and hearing him say I am on my way home mom. The next 5 years seem like a life time but I know they will go fast because it seems like just yesterday he was this little boy tellling me I am so proud of youuuuu and now I am beaming with PRIDE every day becasue of him.
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Lori, nope, no form letter yet. His first two sentences were to ask how I made it thru the first week. He's a man of few words so I'm doubly touched by his concern! As to the food he's had chicken cordon bleu, catfish & a burger. Breakfast has offered pancakes, muffins and a variety of cereal. A far cry from the chow his Army vet dad remembers. :)
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Comment by Rachel_2010(recruit kesh) on April 14, 2010 at 7:37pm
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first week has come and gone,,,yeah i made it!!!hope my girl is doing as good lol,now i know when,where and how...now the plan to get their and back in one piece...so proud of her and of others.i am driving their cause i have to go to one daughters graduation from college with a bachelor degree in education in southern maine then leave there a few days after to drive to great lakes,should be a adventure ... can't wait to hear about keshia adventure....days are long with out her we were best buds...now she will be teaching me life threw her eyes..congrats to all, looking on sharing our new journey!!!!
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Comment by lori on April 14, 2010 at 7:34pm
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Kathy- was the note in the box? Or an actual letter? But you still haven't received the form letter? He talked about the food selection. that's encouraging.
And I loved that quote from Ghost town.
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Hi ladies, still haven't received the form letter but we did get a personal note from our son. He's impressed with the food selection. Said something about socks smiling or frowning, I guess if they screw up they have to wear their socks upside down. He said that he's in good hands so I don't need to worry about him. He seemed upbeat and healthy! I thought I'd share a quote I wrote down form the movie "Ghost Town" that might help all of us transition into our new lives as we deal with life around us. "What happens to us is not odinary or irrelevant. It matters, even if it only matters to us." Regardless of what's happening in other people's lives we own our individual experiences. Our recruits matter to us! But, it is comforting to know that they're eating well! ;-)Kathy
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