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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 MrsB Ship 02/Div 915 on January 14, 2013 at 8:51am
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Just saying Hi. My daughter arrived at RTC late last Monday,Jan 7th, so we are one week in. Urgh, I am torn in pieces worrying. Got the "I am here" call. Got the box 4 days later on Friday. Still no address for her.
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Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on January 14, 2013 at 7:51am
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I guess I should be very happy and thankful too then MartiB.!!!! If my Son is going to do all his A school at Great Lakes, I will be super happy because I am only a 50 minute drive away from there!!! We live within 50 miles of Great Lakes..:) I will be more then happy to see my Son for 51 plus weeks...:)
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Comment by Valerie on January 14, 2013 at 2:18am
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CatMom509- thank you so much for the information. I will definitely have him contact his recruiter & contact the airport. Thank you so much. I am hoping the time goes by quickly. We had his farewell party last night! It was so nice!
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Comment by CatMom509 on January 14, 2013 at 2:15am
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Airforce/Navy Mom, thank for your support of my encouragement to the other mom. I appreciated that. I hope that you can possibly secure a room at the hotel your son is staying in or maybe a close one if you would like to see him at the MEPS swearing in the next morning and possibly wait at the airport to see him off. It depends on the airport. Our airports over here in Southern California don't allow any family/friends to be with travelers at the boarding gates. It maybe different for military situations. Our daughter was able to call us from the departing airport and Chicago O' Hare when she arrived from her cell phone. Her call from the RTC was like 10 seconds. It's been "radio silence" now.
Since we weren't able to book a room, we drove her down to MEPS, met with her recruiter who told us exactly when to be there. He took her in to be processed in 15 minutes, then she came back to the car. Other families who arrived at MEPS too early ended up being separated from their SRs for hours because once they entered the center, they couldn't go back out and had to wait to be processed due to delays in MEPS receiving the required paperwork. We drove over to the hotel, Daina checked in at the MEPS area, then we had dinner with us at the restaurant. We were able to stay with her at the hotel's nice outdoor area with a firepit until 9:30 pm. She had to be in her room at 10:00 pm. We took lots of pictures with her that day. I plan on making a little book about her Navy adventure~~
You're going to be happy, proud, and sad at the same time. May God Bless Your Son on this journey! Hugs to you, sister~~
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 14, 2013 at 2:07am
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Treysmom45, http://www.navycs.com/navyheightweightchart.html has the height/weight chart. He will most likely get the tape measure test. I know I've seen future Sailors who were within 10 pounds of the weight be able to ship. They had regular weigh ins and diet restrictions and just had to be within standards by the final PFA at BC or they would go to FIT.
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Valerie Salas, unless your fiance lives in the same area where your MEPS is located, he will probably have to stay in a hotel contracted with the Navy the night before. He is given a meal ticket when he checks in where the MEPS people are (not the hotel front desk). He uses that to eat dinner at the hotel that night. You can eat at the restaurant with him too, but you have to pay for your own meal. I didn't find out that I could've booked another room for our family to meet our daughter at MEPS again the next morning for her final processng and swearing in. I believe you can only take a photo of the swearing in part as the room is very small. Then I think you can meet him at the airport again to see him off. You need to make sure that you can get some kind of pass to be with him at the boarding area where the gates are. Different airports have different security restrictions. Please have him contact his recruiter for the hotel info and airport stuff. God Bless You!!
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Hi all! I remember posting about 6 months back when my fiancé just enlisted & can't believe the time has come. I have so many mixed emotions right now. He leaves on January 23rd from San Antonio, TX. Do they all have to stay at a hotel the night before? His recruiter has not mentioned that. I…
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Comment by MartiB_TX on January 14, 2013 at 1:13am
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KylesMom - I meant 51 weeks for ET:) Her husband will join her up in Chicago sometime after she finishes BC since she will be up there so long.
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AirForce/NavyMom he sounds like a real sweetheart. Mine won't leave for another couple of weeks. Does your son want to work on a sub?
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KylesMom - Not all kids like the party thing - I think that is sweet that your son wanted to do just a family thing. I don't know if our kids will have any input as to whether they will get to train for an ET or FC but know that the Navy will give them their assignment sometime during BC. Then they will have 9 weeks (approx) of ATT school before they go to A school which is 40 wks (FC) or 51 wks (FC). whew that is a long time! It is still kind of scary for me that she joined the Navy but she is excited and know she will receive good training.
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