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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:
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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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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.
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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."
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Comment by CW_Mom shp 9 div 228 on April 11, 2010 at 4:44am
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Thank you so much, although I already have, I will tell him that again. Thank you so much for your reply!
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IS ANYONE STILL AWAKE OUT THERE? Is anyone still awake? My son leaves tomorrow morning and I'm feeling panicky. And he has been doing ok and excited to go, until tonight. He is getting very nervous and sad about leaving. Any advice? Anything I can tell him to help other than it takes courage to do what he is doing, I'm proud of him, and anything worth it is hard in the beginning? He has never been away from home for any amount of time before, and I think this is what's bothering him, being gone from everyone and everything he has ever known. I'm sure many saliors go through this, and just wondering if there is anything I can say to him or myself to help us. Less than 10 hours he will be gone. This is hard.
Southernmom: I see you said goodbye to your son tonight and he leaves April 12th, Monday. So does my son. He leaves on a shuttle tomorrow morning for MEPS (?, not sure off all the terms yet). Stays there overnight and then they go to Boot Camp on Monday. How are you doing? I'm so nervous for tomorrow morning. I tell myself it is only temporary and that things will be ok once we can talk. And I know it sounds silly, but I hate the thought of the Navy 'breaking them down' and how bad it will make him feel and not having anyone there he knows. I'm panicking tonight. Can anyone offer advice?
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Comment by MamaBear kk on April 10, 2010 at 11:09pm
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Rebecca-Jordons mom and JordansMomVA In many cases it takes time to fill a division. Can you imagine each division has 88 Recruits and they run 6 to 13 divisions with the same PIR (graduation date). My first letter to my son was received by him 3 days after my mailing postmark. I mailed the first letter about 3 days after he left for GL. So you can see; the Navy does not hold their mail. My son was the first placed in his division and the first to receive mail. The other SRs received mail the next day. He looked at the postmarks on all letters he received; 3 days. Many N4Ms have read or stated the mail is held...I do not believe this is the case. Just keep writing... : ) ~ kk
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Barry's Mom They get "mail call" Monday through Friday...not so sure about Saturday (can't remember - but I do not think so)...and no mail on Sunday and legal holidays. The first several weeks the SRs get to write on Sundays. Some divisions get to write more often after the 4th or 5th week. : ) ~ kk
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Comment by MV (Ensign Boone's mom) on April 10, 2010 at 9:22pm
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Said goodbye to my son tonight...he's traveling to his recruiter in the morning, and then leaving on Monday, the 12th. It's a bittersweet time... :-/
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Comment by Fl..GATOR on April 10, 2010 at 9:18pm
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Anybody leaving for BC April 26.??
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Comment by joshuasmom(ship06div929) on April 9, 2010 at 11:42pm
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jordansmom..i too will feel more connected when i can actually send this pile of letters! i think these boys know how much we love them and i'm sure they can feel it from where they are :)
moonblossom, the questions about the airport...the uso fed them and gave my sons group a place to nap until there were so many of them that they had to sit out in the corridor.they could go to the bathroom and they let them walk around a little. but mostly just sat around and got to know each other....i think i kinda helped them bond a little? josh was tired of waiting around but he did sound like he was enjoying a chance to get to know people without the stress of a drill sargeant screaming at them. i put money in josh's navy bag and packed him some snacks (packs of crackers and some juice boxes lol) he looked at me like i was insane and said "mom..i'm going in the navy not to the zoo"...but i bet now he's glad he had it!!! the uso really takes good care of them...food ,drinks, dont worry it might be inconvinient (sp) if he has to sit like that, but they will take care of him. cant wait to find what division...calling the station tomorrow!
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Comment by Jakesmom on April 9, 2010 at 3:41pm
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I think I would almost take the snow over the wet drippy humidity.....yuck. We are close enough that we can get some weather reports on our local news but I'm going to see if we can program our weather radio to report any bad weather warnings from that county in Il. We are about an hour north of Watertown close to Green Bay.
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Comment by kathyjeanba (ship 6/Div 929) on April 9, 2010 at 3:18pm
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Or it could be really warm and drippingly humid! My parents moved from Chicago way back when. I've heard the stories about walking miles to school in 6 foot drifts, up hill both ways. Could that have been some Irish blarney on my dad's part? But still, 2 inches of wet snow in April? Uggh. I'll think of sending warm thoughts your way. I guess I should start watching the Chicago area weather again. My husband's sister lives in Watertown, WI. Are you anywhere near there? David's in Ship 6 Division 929.
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What ship and division is your son in Kathy? Jake is in ship 14 and div 196.
Be careful we here in Wisconsin just got 2 inches of very wet snow and we are not all that far from Great Lakes (2-1/2hours). It could snow in June.........
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