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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

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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.

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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."

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in December

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

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 521
Latest Activity: Oct 2, 2022

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

If you have December 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 December, ...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 RobinSHIP11,DIV063 on December 2, 2010 at 2:39pm: Hi all!

I am still trying to figure out how to use this site. Lol. But I am very glad that I found it, and a group of moms living the same situation as myself. I have such mixed emotions about my son leaving the nest. I am excited that he is embarking on this amazing adventure, so happy for him that he is going to be doing something that he wants to do. Also, sadder than all get out that he is leaving the comfort of his home,his childhood etc. I have been crying ALOT...lol.

He leaves here Dec. 6, 2010 for MEPS and then flies into Great Lakes the next day Dec. 7. I will be glad to share conversation/support with everyone, especially mom's with kids arriving for BC at the same time. It'd be so helpful for my own morale to have you all there going through this with me. Thanx...

Comment by Arwen on December 2, 2010 at 3:59am: Blue Star Flags/Banners, also known as a service flag.

The Blue Star banner was created during WWI, as a symbol that a family has a soldier, sailor or Marine in the service during wartime. It's use became widespread/famous during WWII, and was used during Korea. and Vietnam. It was reactivated in 2002.

The banner can be displayed by mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children and spouses of servicemembers. There is a movement for grandparents to be allowed to display the flag, but so far it has not been authorized. The flag has a wide red border and white field, with the blue star in the center. Flags can have as many as 5 stars, one for each qualifying family member.

If a servicemember dies or is killed during time of war, for any reason (from being shot by the enemy to being hit by a drunk driver in San Diego), the blue star is replaced with a gold star.

If the servicemember is severely wounded, bad enough to be sent back to the US and suffers long-term or permanent injuries, the blue star is covered with a silver star.

Traditionally, the gold and silver stars are hand-stitched (embroidered - it's actually fairly simple to do) over the blue star, by the mom, a family member or a close friend.

If the family does not already have a blue star flag, a gold or silver star flag may be presented to the family by a local representative of the Blue Star Mothers or Gold Star Mothers (or wives) organization.

The Navy protocol is that the flag can be displayed as soon as the recruit becomes a sailor, after Battlestations 21. Before that they are a recruit, a *prospective* sailor, and are not yet afforded the honor.

There is also a veteran's service flag that families can fly once the servicemember leaves the military. The colors are reversed, with a red border and blue field with a white star.

Comment by Ken-55 (OS Dad) on December 2, 2010 at 3:13am: My son leaves from CT on the 15th.

Comment by mamawalrus on December 2, 2010 at 2:05am: Welcome Charlene, Dgreen08, Annie, and kathyf@this site will get you through it. Looks like your all having your boys leave the same time. In case you didnt read from the beginning, my son is leaving on the 8th,, this time next week he will be in BC. Very proud but hard. I know he had to eventually leave home but never thought it would be so hard. I think the fact that he is going to grow up so fast and be all over the place serving his country is so overwhelming. I thought his first year in college was bad, he was only 3 hours away. LOL.

WE got the NAVY little Chirstmas tree up tonight and I have to say it is so cool! We decided it will go up every year as a tribute to our son and to all the sailors that are there and cant be home with their families at Christmas. I will post a pic of it tomorrow. Have a good night all!

Comment by Renick ET on December 2, 2010 at 12:39am: Mine leaves 12/14 from New Orleans! I'm so happy :) ---- :( and then so sad. Goes up and down like a yo-yo!

Comment by Northwest Annie on December 1, 2010 at 11:13pm: Hi Everybody! My son leaves Seattle on Dec 15. The countdown is on. I'm going to miss him but I'm so excited for his future. Anyone else have someone leaving Seattle on Dec 15?

Comment by Dina ship 09/ div075 on December 1, 2010 at 8:20pm: Mine leaves on a flight out on the 13th

Comment by HockeyMom on December 1, 2010 at 6:45pm: My son needs go to recruiter and stay overnight, for last miniute things, will be home in the morning. He leaves Sunday afternoon for MEPS, then Flight out on Monday, anyone else's child leaving on that day also??

Comment by Bell (ship 9 div 077) on December 1, 2010 at 4:26pm: Thank god I came to this site. As I was reading past comments it makes me feel a lot better. I been feeling a bundle of emotions since thanksgiving i was our last together for a while. My boy Roger leaves for MEPS on Monday Dec 13th and for boot camp tuesday the 14th. My youngest Malik 10 years old is not taking to well. Poor thing is so sad. Im sad but most of all proud of my son. we are planning on going with him to the last possible minute. his leaving from Harrisburg PA. We are in East Stroudsburg PA. Palnning on driving over in the morning. his recruiter has been helpful but i still dont know what time they are actually leaving to the airport.