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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!
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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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 Boot Camp in January
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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for Boot Camp in January. I will leave the year open so that any future DEPpers leaving in the month of January of any year can join.Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions!
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 629
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 January (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!
If you have January 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 January, ...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 Fitness Standards"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 37 seconds for female recruits."
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Comment by Walleyeforever on January 29, 2019 at 5:33pm
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Hello all. I am so very happy to found this group. I was beging to think I had to go through this alone. My son shipped off to the RTC last Thursday. I got my I am here, I am safe and you will here from me in 3 weeks call that night. Talk about heart renching. I have been filled with emotions of fear, happiness, saddness and profound proudness for him. I feel the hardest of it all in this first week is not being able to hear from him. Looking forward to hearing from you all and seeing our furtuare sailors grow.
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Comment by BoyMomx4 on January 29, 2019 at 11:58am
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JacquieM, MickiC: It’s normal to have such sadness in our hearts when our babies leave home, most for the first time ever! I’m still new at this, as my son is only on week 3 at RTC, but I feel so much better after I received a 30 minute phone call from him this weekend! He sounded so positive and motivated, it really put my mind at ease! He explained his day to day activities which is a nice way to get a better understanding of it all! We had also received a long letter from him that day & in his letter he ended with, how at 18 he realizes this was the best decision he could’ve made for himself! Now, I know not every recruit will feel this way, but yours will tell you things that will make you feel so much better! And just hearing their voice is the best! I still cried when we said goodbye on the phone, but once communication has opened up for you, you’ll feel so much better! Our momma hearts are so easily broken, we are so emotional! Soon enough, you’ll be planning your trip to PIR, (if it’s possible for you to attend!)
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Comment by Sherraz on January 29, 2019 at 10:13am
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MickiC, I was the same way with the box. As soon as I opened it, I could smell his cologne. I washed everything except his shirt becaue the smell reminds me of hugging him when he left (my husband thinks I'm nuts). I think the first couple of weeks are so hard because we have absolutely no contact with our recruits and we don't know how they are doing or how they are feeling and as moms we feel powerless to help our children if they need us. Yesterday was the happiest and in the best mood I have been in since he left because I got his form letter and can finally start sending mail to him. I'm hoping it just gets better from this point on.
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Comment by MickiC on January 29, 2019 at 9:28am
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We got the box yesterday. I spent about an hour crying. His clothes smelled like him.I feel guilty to be morning. He is doing what he needs to do for himself. It seems so selfish to wish he wasn't. I feel guilty about being so sad when my daughter needs me to help her through her feelings of loss. I feel angry that I can't talk to him and know how he is feeling and what he is going through. When I feel that way I start cleaning and redecorating our home until I collapse from exhaustion. By the time he is done with boot camp I will have turned our home into a showplace. I don't know how I am going to make it. I miss him so much.
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Comment by JacquieM on January 29, 2019 at 8:24am
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Heather, I know how your feeling. He is the last to leave the nest and my buddy. I am unable to see him swear in today due to an injury and it's killing me. I went through this with my daughter too. She went into the Marines and straight to Iraq after boot camp. It is heart wrenching. Thank you for reaching out this morning. It helps
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Comment by Heather on January 29, 2019 at 7:28am
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They did end up putting them up in a hotel room last night. Trying again to fly out this morning
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Jacquie. I am with you. I never knew it could hurt so bad. Just cry cry and cry..Its ok..I know I am morning my loss on many lvls not only the void, but the mother son relationship.My son had no life really except our family and high school. After he graduated He stuck around home alot. He did sign up, but he was in limbo waiting for a slot for his career of choice, .With his small group of friends he saw every now and then. Majority off to boot camps and some other countries for college.He was home with us alot. Need less to say after dropping him off there was a big void. Our family is a blended family of 5. He is the middle child, but my oldest. All I guess I'm trying to say is we were close and it hurts Alot. Some of the things that help me cope a little is keeping busy, but the loneliness comes back, and I just have to cry through it. I try to find someone to keep me company since I have always been a stay at home mom and have no life, but hey I'm blessed with sisters..lol.. You sooooooo are not alone..
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Can't stop crying. I miss my son terribly and it's only been a day.
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 29, 2019 at 12:58am
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The recruits who have had flights cancelled are either at a hotel (true for most of those who had not gotten on their first flight) or the USO depending on their situation. The up side is that they are being paid from the time they were sworn in.
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Ty sherraz. Now he txted me their flight is canceled till tom morn 7:30. They didnt eat till 10:00 and they ate lunch at 12. Guess they are crashing at the airport. Idk..Uggg I feel so bad for him right now. I also feel really bipolar. LOL
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