This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in August

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in August

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."

Discussion Forum

Leaves Auguat 20, 2019

Started by Jamie. Last reply by Milliemax2 Sep 3, 2019. 16 Replies

My Son is off to start his adventure 8/27/19

Started by MyNavyRoo. Last reply by lemonelephant Aug 30, 2019. 9 Replies

Shipped out yesterday

Started by Leslie. Last reply by InTheNavyMom Aug 15, 2019. 10 Replies

August 29 group

Started by Kim. Last reply by lemonelephant Sep 19, 2018. 5 Replies

Leaving August 30, 2018

Started by 4Roses92. Last reply by Navy4JK Sep 18, 2018. 21 Replies

My son left 8/23

Started by Wcpunk4. Last reply by Anne Marie Sep 13, 2018. 7 Replies

Leaving Tomorrow Aug. 29th

Started by krisam. Last reply by lemonelephant Sep 12, 2018. 10 Replies

Left for Bootcamp

Started by tiffanyw18. Last reply by lemonelephant Aug 29, 2018. 4 Replies

leaving

Started by Bb8/00. Last reply by Son#2 Aug 12, 2018. 9 Replies

Leaving August 13

Started by FF3577 Aug 1, 2018. 0 Replies

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Comment by gretamae3 (nuke mom) on August 26, 2014 at 9:03am
Ginny good to hear he arrived. He will probably graduate the 24th!!! Stay strong!! I'm doing much better
Comment by Ginny on August 26, 2014 at 7:58am

gretamae3 - He called around 11:30 last night and sounded good.  For some reason yesterday they changed plans and drove to Chicago from Columbus.  It's about a 6 hour drive so I assumed they would be at BC earlier.  But he called later from the airport.  They dropped them off to be picked up with recruits flying in.  My son said there were about 200 of them at the airport.  Wow!

Comment by lemonelephant on August 25, 2014 at 9:48pm

I'll let ellen know that form letters have arrived for 10/17/2014. Keep watching PIR 10/17/2014 TG 49 and join when it is up.

Comment by CeCe on August 25, 2014 at 5:21pm

My son left last Tuesday and I just got the box.  Never been so happy to see a box.  I am just hoping the letter with his address is not too far behind.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 25, 2014 at 4:59pm

If you have a recruit in Division 323 or 324, please let me know the Ship number and PIR date. Thanks.

Comment by gretamae3 (nuke mom) on August 25, 2014 at 2:22pm
Ginny when does your child fly out to BC? It seems like everyone's calls come late at night but I think that is because they aren't picked up from the airport until late no matter what time their flight lands. I do know they need their cell phones to call home because their are no phones available in processing area for their use. They can use another recruits phone though so answer any unfamiliar number just incase your child's phones battery did go dead!!!!!
Comment by lemonelephant on August 25, 2014 at 1:55pm

If your future Sailor has yet to ship, be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month before Your Future Sailor Leaves for....

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 Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.

Comment by CeCe on August 25, 2014 at 1:47pm

Ginny it does get better. I dropped my son off a week ago. He is my only child. I cried like a baby, but now I am starting to feel excited for him. I follow his daily schedule at http://www.navydep.com/forums/showthread.php?t=433 It has really helped me to see exactly what he is doing everyday. They start with P(Processing) week and go through week 6. I hope this helps you some. Hang in there. :)

Comment by Ginny on August 25, 2014 at 1:28pm

I just drove back from MEPS in Columbus and saying good bye.  Cried most of the trip.  It's so hard .I'm a single mom but have a fabulous man in my life.  He went with me and on the way we stopped to get his youngest settled at college.  Lost of tears this weekend.  Now I'm back at the house and it hit hard...wow...I live all by myself in this big house.  I want to pull myself together and be strong.  I'm just not sure today it will happen.

Comment by gretamae3 (nuke mom) on August 25, 2014 at 10:44am
Lovelygabby1 it sucks big time and you will have many break downs but stay strong. We all are going through it. I've met wonderful people on here that have helped me keep it together. Read everything you can on here it helps......I have found that the moms on here (who are complete strangers) bring me the most comfort!!! We are here for ya
 

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