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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: 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."
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Comment by jen on January 14, 2013 at 7:55pm
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Kylesmom - my daughter is ship 2 also. It looks like she might be flags? She was an swimmer & softball player in school - definitely not the cheerleader/parade girl.
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Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on January 14, 2013 at 7:50pm
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900 division means they are a performance division (so I am learning) !! Could be part of the band or on sticks/flags, and I understand they have to do everything all the recruits do plus do extra training for their performance and are housed on Ship 2.....but I may be all wrong... I just found out hours ago my SR is div 917.
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 14, 2013 at 7:37pm
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Stephanie, yes, every now and then the form letter comes before "the box"--that happens more for those in an 800 or 900 Division than for regular divisions. Sometimes a recruit does not send a box and chooses to trash or donate his things, but if he took a cell phone, someone will get "the box" from him.
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hey Sunshine66...My SR was 3 1/2 years into college and enlisted totally behind our backs because it is what HE wanted to do. Of course I played devil's advocate and encouraged him to finish his last semester at UW Madison cause after 3 1/2 years, I couldn't imagine him not walking across the stage to diploma. By the same token, I also was proud that he had chosen his own path in life, and for me not to support a positive thing would have been wrong in my eyes. So I came to accept (with hesitation) that the Navy was what he saw as his career choice. Change is hard, and the norm is no longer the norm, but I know that I love and support my son with everything and anything in his future. I am still coming to grips with the fact that he is not my baby anymore, he is all grown up, and to know that we as parent's did such a great job raising upstanding kids is good enough for me...hang in there
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Comment by Sunshine66 on January 14, 2013 at 6:40pm
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I never saw the Navy is my son's future until the week he joined. He didn't tell me he was even thinking about it! Needless to say, I was shocked and scared. He had just quit college and given up a full paid scholarship. He just didn't have any direction and this is what he chose. I'm pretty sure it was an impulse decision and I was very reluctant at first but now that he's in I think it is a good place for him. I've since become very proud of his decision and hope he is very successful and has a long Navy career. I'm very nervous about the job he chose: Nuke. I'm not sure if that's what he wanted or if he was steered there. I just want him to be happy.
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Here is the link for the 03/01/2013 PIR group that includes the confirmed divisions within the TG, PIR 03/01/2013 TG 16 – 6 Divisions (101-104, 914 &915).
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What a whirlwind....geesh!! My SR left a week ago tomorrow, today I got a call from his recruiter to notify my he is in division 917 with a PIR of 3/8 !! Wooohooooo He also said I should be proud he is a performer? Thanks to lemonelephant, I was informed he is on sticks/flags.....now I have even more to learn...uuggghhhh Happy I am though and proud as all heck
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Well put, MrsB.
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For me personally, I do realize that my daughter is an adult and I AM her biggest supporter by FAR. I also encouraged this choice (despite what I really feel about it). I also GREATLY believe in her and 150% support her BUT is this a choice I would have chosen for her (had it have been my choice)? No. My daughter has no idea about my feeling about her going in the Navy.
The service is the absolute BEST thing for her (given personal situations)and I genuinely believe that but I don't have to like it! Lulu, feel free to message me.
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lulu, there are more with similar feelings as you have than you know, but generally, at some point, most come to realize that these young people have made an adult choice and we need to be there as their biggest supporters. Some come to that before BC and some during BC and some once the Sailor is in the Fleet. Once he is in BC, the more you write with encouraging words, the more you will come to believe in him and his choice or at least accept it. Our children will always be close at heart even when they are not close at hand. We must remember we have placed them in the best hands of all--those of God and the US Navy.
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