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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!

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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

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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in August...I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of August of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 746
Latest Activity: Jul 22, 2022

Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPpers leaving in the month of August (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!

We are an extension of the group DEPpers/Future Sailors....in, but not gone yet- see the link above.

If you haven't been there, go there now....There is a ton of information that you will need and are probably dying for....like what to send with them to Boot Camp and BC videos! :)

So if you have general information and comments that will be helpful and/or encouraging for ALL new DEP/Future Sailor Moms, then leave it in that main DEPper/Future Sailors Group, but if you have August 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 August, ...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 Deb S. on September 8, 2018 at 11:57am: Hi, Lemonelephant, I am kind of stressed out right now. My son called me at work yesterday, so happy to hear his voice but later was so frustrated that he still need some papers from the parents... birth certificate, naturalization papers. We have been here since 1979, moved from New Jersey to New York and had some papers misplaced. My husband don't have his birth certificate, i dont have my naturalization certificate nd just checked how long to request for a copy,6-12 months. We travel a lot but just bring our passport, were 64-65years old and ready to retire and not so worried not to have those papers in hand and....we are both federal employees. I don't understand why this was not requested before the swearing in. Did anybody have this situation at all. Do they have to come back home?? I would be so happy but my son is loving it there. I am planning to call his recruiter but I have been reading along here that they are not of help at all.

Comment by AFVetNavyMom on September 7, 2018 at 6:58pm: Hi Moms - My son left 8/23 and I did receive the box & opened it 4 days later and fought back tears by reminding myself how proud I am of him. There's still so much I don't know. To my horror, my cell phone is set to DND so I missed his "I'm here call" that came late that night although I did speak with him when he first landed. His was very short & seemingly a little strained although that is probably just the Momma Bear in me feeling overprotective. I'm in SW FL & am wondering if I'll have to dig deep in the attic for winter clothes for the graduation. :(

Comment by Phoenixmom on September 7, 2018 at 6:38pm: Hi swFloridaMOM welcome to Navy Moms. so I see you received his box YAY! so now next will be the form letter. the form letter will arrive 9 to 14 business days after the first PFA which is taken on the 5th Business day of arriving. the form letter will have his address to where you can send letters and his PIR date with the security form that needs to be filled out and sent back to your Recruit. See Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) and Fitness Improvement Training (FIT). There is more on this in Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit.

Comment by swFloridaMOM on September 7, 2018 at 6:31pm: My son left for bootcamp on the 29th. His box came this week on the 4th. So how do we find out his address and graduation date? Does that come in the mail? Does he send a letter to tell us his address? I don’t have any experience with the Navy, feeling just a little anxious.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 29, 2018 at 2:12am: Stephanie, your recruit arrived on the 14th and you did not receive the form letter until the 27th. How do you know that your recruit received letters 8 days after arrival? Even if the tracking info through the Sandboxx App indicated the letters arrived at the the RTC it is unlikely that he received letters that early since the RMPO for the division had not been trained and he still would have been in Phase 1 (P-days). His earliest Mail Call MAY have been Friday the 24th. The soonest your recruit would have been able to write a "real" letter would have been the 26th. Yes, you were fortunate that he ended up in the division that the recruiter indicated, but it could have gone differently and either way your letters sat there.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 27, 2018 at 8:56pm: If your future Sailor has yet to ship to the RTC, then check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month before Your Future Sailor Leaves for..., and to start discussing some of the things there with your future Sailor such as how to handle bad news and who will get the tickets for PIR....

If you have not yet joined Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), now is a good time to do so (especially if you have a recruit at the RTC) and to begin checking out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) starting with OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (some of you have changes that you need to make--at least change 3) and then go on to Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 27, 2018 at 8:53pm: Everyone, Make it a habit to check your My Page because you may have comments from Members and not even know it if you have the notifications turned off for comments on your My Page. To reply to someone who leaves a comment on your My Page, click on "Comment Back" or "View Thread" below the comment. Also check in the upper left to see if you have Friend requests or any new messages in your Inbox.

Comment by Kelly Keppel on August 27, 2018 at 7:38pm: Hi my son left August 23rd, he's 18 and this is the first time away from home.... It is very difficult not being able to send lettersYes. Does anyone know when we get the address???

Comment by Son#2 on August 17, 2018 at 10:20pm: hello all!

welcome to all new moms! good luck to your SR! this is is a Godsend! they are supportive and informative,