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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.
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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
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Comment by CW_Mom shp 9 div 228 on April 12, 2010 at 12:58am
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Susan, even though our boys are leaving from different states, it sounds like they will be both arriving at GL tomorrow??? It IS so hard to not worry, even though they are 'men', they are still our boys. I had a little 'breakdown' earlier worrying.
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kathyjeanba, I understand, They are still our 'boys', even if they did turn into men. And when they grown up, as they do, we still remember the times when we used to hold them on our laps, rock them to sleep, watch them run grocery carts into spices or film! lol For heavens sake, we grew these little boys into the young men they are now. We have lots of memories, and when we dont' get to see them like we would like to, we remember... and wish we could maybe go back for just a few minutes, and hold the little guys again, give them a hug and make everything better.
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Anyone else's son ship out from Des Moines Iowa tomorrow (Monday)? My son will be heading to boot camp from there tomorrow. He left here this morning (so sad) and is in Des Moines now waiting. I am still able to have contact with him the rest of tonight. So thought if anyone else's son or daughter just happened to be there I could tell him to look for them, as I think it would help them if they knew of just one person, even if its just a name, to look for. Thanks, hope to hear from somebody... feel so bad for him. He want's to go, but you know that leaving home for the first time thing is so hard on them. (and us)
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Comment by kathyjeanba (ship 6/Div 929) on April 11, 2010 at 7:11pm
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Good evening everybody! Since David has been away already for 4 1/2 years my husband didn't understande that I got misty at the grocery store yesterday. I kept picturing him as a little boy pushing the cart around. One Thanksgiving when he was about 5 he wanted to "drive" the cart. He got a running start, jumped on and promptly crashed into the stack of Shilling spices. Little red and white cans exploded everywhere! You would think he had learned a lesson, but nooo, that spring, same thing but this time the Fuji film display. Little green and white boxes everywhere! Made me kind of worried to teach him to drive!
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Comment by Mar ProudSailorMom on April 11, 2010 at 6:49pm
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Susan...while others have gotten their boxes and/or letters within the first week - I have not. So don't be surprised if it goes into the second week. (I was sad as I waited and waited AND WAITED...but alas, they did not come.) I live in Northern VA area, so it doesn't seem that it would take longer than the others, but I am learning that sometimes things are just different - and it doesn't help to get frustrated! :o- So, I am hoping and praying to get them both tomorrow and have the answers that I need!!! ALSO...check with your recruiter in a couple days and stay with him on getting the address. I made the mistake of "following the rules” and didn't ask until Friday - which evidently is a "day off" for our recruiter. :P Live and Learn!!
This weekend I tried to stay busy and only cried a couple times - BIG PROGRESS!! My youngest son got home late last night from his Spring Break trip and my husband gets home on Tuesday. The house will fill up with some noise again, and it will make things better. WAY TOO QUIET this past week, it wasn't good timing to have so much time and house to myself.
It's been good to read through the last few days of postings and see how far y'all have come. Lori, Rebecca and Karrisa - WAY TO GO! I will make sure that I let you know where Jordan's going to be when I find out too. I am really praying that he will be with at least one of your boys.
Hugs and blessings
~marilyn~
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Comment by lori on April 11, 2010 at 4:13pm
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Susan, stay connected on here- I couldn't do it without these 'moms'.You will get a call when he gets to GL. [ here am i- it's only been 5 days since Paul left!].
The box came the 3rd day- prepare to be emotional and the form letter may come a day later. Or not. Nothing is exactly how you would expect. I'm learning [from this site] that the only thing you can take for granted is how much you will miss him. And cry. Keep busy in the mean time. Welcome aboard Susan!
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Rebecca- don't know if you've looked at the boot camp moms replies on this but I asked the same ques. They said it was because of Memorial Day weekend.
So I guess we would have to leave on Wed. to get there for the early morning graduation. Looks like your kids may miss that last day if you are bringing them with you! Do you know what ship and div he's on?
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Comment by MamaBear kk on April 11, 2010 at 11:51am
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This is all good information for those that have not read it. : ) ~ kk
http://www1.netc.navy.mil/nstc/rtcgl/pdfs/FamilyGuide.pdf
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Comment by MV (Ensign Boone's mom) on April 11, 2010 at 8:33am
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CW-Mom, I had a great suggestion from a young wife whose husband was going to BC...she suggested I write a note to my son for him to read on the airplane as he's flying to GL. She said it calmed her husband, reminded him that people were supporting him and loved him, and helped him regain his excitement. I thought what a grand suggestion! I wrote one, my husband wrote one, and my sweet daughter-in-law wrote one for my son to carry with him to read on the plane!
Let's keep in touch, and see if our young men are in the same division at GL, and obviously, we may be attending the same PIR since their departure dates are the same, if all their processing goes smoothly! Where are you located? We're in NC.
Have a good day! I had my good cry yesterday, and today, as he left, I am hopeful, and even joyful, in his decision and future! I will be praying for your son - and for you! - as this first week is upon us!
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Jess, thanks so much! I've had my good cry yesterday, and today is a good day! I'm so hopeful and excited for my young man, and ready to buckle down to the letter writing routine now! :-)
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