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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: 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 Scouter Mom on January 28, 2013 at 12:00pm
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MartiB, TacosMom, you two are a day ahead of me....We leave tomorrow for MEPS, and he ships out Wed. I'm hoping they all end up in the same ship/PIR! It will be fun to "know" people at graduation! We will need name tags with our online names on them! I have scheduled myself for lots of things for the next week! A class, work, haircut, taxes (ugh), more work....I plan on keeping busy, busy, busy....the only kids I have left are 4 dogs and a lot of cats......ever notice, kids leave, but the pets stay! LOL!
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Comment by TreysMom on January 28, 2013 at 11:51am
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I can't believe that my son leaves for GL tomorrow. It seems like this day got here way too quick. We opened our home up yesterday afternoon for anyone that wanted to come by and say their farewells. It was great to have a house full of family, friends and loved ones (especially the 15 teenagers that were all so loud and talking over each other, I'll miss that). It helped keep my mind busy. My husband will bring him to the hotel by MEPS this afternoon to check in and then out to dinner. Tomorrow we'll watch him swear in and be on his way. Thank you to all the moms that have given great insight up to this point. It's really been very helpful. To all of the moms with kids leaving tomorrow, hang in there, we'll all get through it together. :-)
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Comment by Lisa on January 28, 2013 at 10:12am
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My daughter is also leaving today. Good luck to all of them.
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Comment by MartiB_TX on January 28, 2013 at 9:49am
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Thanks Valerie!
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Comment by Valerie on January 28, 2013 at 12:20am
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@ MartiB-TX- good luck tomorrow!!! Time is flying I remember just last week sharing my experience and here we are close to 1 week down.!
@ Jessica. My fiancé left on the 23rd from what i understand its about a week. So hopefully some time this week. I will post as soon as mine arrives yours should follow soon after! And the form letter will come after that. My fiances recruiter informed me that he will have his address for me tomorrow :) can't wait!
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Well tomorrow my daughter leaves for MEPS. She will catch a bus sometime tomorrow and we will drive down so we can watch her swearing in. Hard to believe how quickly this date arrived. So glad I found this site it has helped me understand some things since I am not at all military. I know there are several of us whose kids will ship out on Tuesday - good luck to all of you. My daughter texted me and said that she would write us every Sunday:)
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Comment by Jessica13128 on January 27, 2013 at 9:54pm
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Hello everyone! My fiance just left for basic on January 24. Does anyone have a sailor that also shipped out that day? I'm like biting my nails waiting for "the box" and the PIR letter to get sent home to me. I was fortunate enough to get the phone call when he reached Great Lakes- and got to talk to him for a couple seconds.
Will it take a long time to get the letter and find out what his graduation date is?
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Comment by DaltonsMom (Ship 13 Div 127) on January 27, 2013 at 6:26pm
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We are at the hotel and ready to bring my son to MEPS tomorrow... I'm so happy for him!
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 27, 2013 at 5:28pm
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Yep, that's the one I watched....but couldn't help but cruise over utube to see what else there was...so, it was good to see how much it had changed...It's even changed/improved since my son's GF went it August...which she gives him a hard time about already!!! LOL
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