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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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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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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: 632
Latest Activity: 2 hours ago
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 TexGal75 on January 25, 2018 at 9:48am
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It’s a bright and early,cold (for east Texas) morning and we are headed to the Houston MEPS to see our son swear in. He texted us this morning super stoked because he came in 4 pounds under the target weight and didn’t have to get “taped”. He was really stressing about that yesterday. Can’t wait to see him this morning.
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Comment by Daniels#1fan on January 24, 2018 at 9:15pm
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My son left today... a very proud & sad day. I held up through the swearing in & the leaving with minimal tears but as soon as we had to leave I broke down. It’s been off & on crying ever since! He was able to text me & his Dad up until he got on the plane & has landed safely in Chicago. He was able to text us right before going to check in just now! That has made it easier! Now the countdown to graduation begins! Miss him already!
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Comment by Phoenixmom on January 24, 2018 at 7:08pm
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Welcome TexGal75 glad you all are safe I hear the weather is really bad over there. So will you be there watching him Swear in? it will be very emotional, some get thru it fine some don't but that is ok. we are here for you always. please let us know how it goes, and please join boot camp moms you will find much needed info.
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Dropped my son off at the recruiting station today. It's been a rollercoaster ride with the freeze delays here in the Houston area. But all is well and he's at the hotel ready to go to MEPS in the morning. I had a total meltdown on Monday, but was much better today. Have no idea where the emotional rollercoaster will take me tomorrow at the swearing in, but we are so very proud of him.
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Comment by dancingmom66 on January 24, 2018 at 8:52am
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I just started a job at the VA medical center in Mpls. Many of the people that I have met during orientation are veterans. I have been reassured by a few former Navy guys that my guy will do just fine. A few of the guys that I spoke with had some advice for my son that I was able to pass on via a Sandboxx letter yesterday.
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Welcome MoBoots to the site, we are all here for you, this site is like Family, we share, we post our Concerns, Questions, Emotions on how we are feeling or handling our Loved ones away. You have many a Great Folks on here that will share and help ease the anxiety. welcome again.
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Comment by MoBoots on January 23, 2018 at 4:13pm
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My son has been on DEP - my first contact with someone from the office was yesterday. :( He is close on "tape" and they are working hard this week on Aerobic exercise. I think he got lost in the shuffle when his recruiter promoted out. I deliver him Sunday to the office and MEPS on Monday. Very nervous.
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Comment by ellen0502 on January 22, 2018 at 10:20pm
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Here are the links to the current PIR groups. Please click on the link for your recruits graduation date and join the group with those who have recruits in the same division and TG as your own.
PIR: January 26, 2018 TG 12 - 12 Divisions (071-080, 806 and 912) 4 guests
PIR: February 02, 2018 TG 13 - 15 Divisions (081-094 and 913) 4 guests
PIR: February 09, 2018 TG 14 - 16 Divisions (094-106, 807 & 808, 914 & 915) 3 guests
No PIR on February 16th and February 23rd
PIR: March 02, 2018 TG 17 - 10 Divisions (107-114, 916, and 917) 4 Guests
PIR: March 09, 2018 TG 18 - 9 Divisions (115-122 and 918) 4 Guests
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That is Great news dancingmom66, from here on out it should be a little more relaxed, all it takes is to hear from them to know all is fine. Best wishes to you SR.
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I got the letter on Saturday. He was so nice to see my son's handwriting, though the note that he wrote on the bottom was short. I have started using the Sandboxx app to send letters. Graduation is March 9th!
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