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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 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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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: 630
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."
Discussion Forum
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Comment by MommaD728 on January 20, 2014 at 12:51pm
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I sent my son with a phone card that had 120 min on it. He said he would probably pass it around to whoever needed to use it. It was a regular Att card...I hope they can use them there...
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Comment by julesmom5 (ship 09 div.108) on January 20, 2014 at 12:05pm
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I am so happy for everyone who received their box and their form letter.. My son left on 01/15/2013.. I received my .30 second phone call and that's it.. I been on pins and needles since he's been gone.. I am is PIR will be on 03/14/2014.
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Comment by jbug on January 20, 2014 at 11:13am
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Jeter's Mom, thank you for the link on phone cards. :-) I wish I had an answer for you about your PO box and home address. I hope you don't have any mix ups with that.
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Thank you for ALL of your comments. I'm not sure if they can purchase phone cards in BC. I will definitely be sending him some in my first letter to him. Hopefully if he gets a chance to call before then, someone will share. Thanks all. :-)
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Comment by NHBBALL MOM on January 20, 2014 at 11:01am
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I do have a question - we have a PO box but on all the paperwork that he completed at MEPS from the day my son left has our street address, I believe for the "box" which we recvd last week because it was coming FED EX. He did mention in his call the box was coming that way which it did I am concerned that I wont get the form letter if it is sent to our home address as we do not have Postal Service and because of a neighbor complaning that PO will not hold anything that is sent to the office for our street they immedialty send it back no such address. Am I over thinking this? Is it too early to contact his recruiter and ask him? I want to make sure if I can write I do and he has not called since that night he got there 1/13 with the I am here call.
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Oops, sorry read your comment wrong... NOT 800 division, LOL
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Have you heard from your son, my son is also in 800 division
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Hello Mom's
I was given this link for calling cards for recruits- these dads will send you 8 cards for free he just asks that you keep a couple and pass them out to others who need them. I sent 8 with my son said keep two and pass the rest out some recruits might not have thought to bring them. You can print it out and put them in a letter the instructions are all there.
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Comment by BigShooter on January 20, 2014 at 10:51am
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Jbug, i sent my son with extra pin #'s to hand out for the 800 #. Hopefully someone in his div will share with him..
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my son didn't take calling card, are they able to purchase one at BC?
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