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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
View discussions in the DEP-Leavin' for Boot Camp in January forum!
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Comment by CPfaff91(Ship03,DIV109) on January 12, 2013 at 9:46am
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My husband left on January 9, and it seems to be a pretty hard process. We have a two year old son at home and I am currently pregnant with our second child, due February third. Does anyone have any advice how to make any of this easier? Or how I can let him know when the baby is born? I'm so new to this I feel so lost. :/
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Comment by CatMom509 on January 12, 2013 at 4:51am
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Hi lemonelephant, our recruiter gave us the correct address for Ship 03, there's just no division noted in the "contact recruit" list. My daughter was blessed with an especially detailed recruiter who took care of her very well!! My daughter researched alot, sent me the link to here, watched various Youttube videos from sailors who have completed Boot Camp, watched the Navy videos (which were really excellent) on Return to Boot Camp, etc... I've also already checked out the Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), letter writing fun, etc. So glad all this info is out here to help us!! If not for my daughter being so thorough in researching all the military branches--ultimately choosing the awesome Navy!!--I would not have known about this site. It's all because of her!! She will be training in IT- Information Technology Technician--which has great hiring opportunity in both the public and private sector after her active service with the Navy is done!! Lemonelephant (what does it stand for? It's a cute name.), thanks for your dedication in keeping all us loved ones who come after you informed! It's much appreciated~~ God Bless You <>/p>
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 11, 2013 at 9:28pm
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CatMom509, the PIR groups are created by FTLW or ellen when someone receives a form letter indicating the PIR date or the RTC indicates on http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/upcoming_grads.asp the date of PIR and the divisions in a TG, so you will need to wait until one of those happens.
Divisions 109 and 110 are brother divisions and train together, so watch for others with loved ones in either division.
You may also want to join, or at least check out, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), PIR Reference Information, and New Members Stop Here. There will be a lot of great information and support for you in those groups as well as in the PIR group. Be sure to check out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) and Discussions within the groups. Please especially check out Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit. We encourage loved ones to wait on the form letter before sending letters, but since you already have, double-check the address the recruiter gave you against those at http://bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp.
(Group names and links are clickable links.)
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Hi Everyone, Not sure who actually starts up the PIR group, but I received info from my daughter's recruiter that she is in Ship 03, Division 109!! I already sent out 3 letters (2 from me, 1 from my hubby, all in the same envelope) since I started writing the day she left, which was just Wednesday, January 9, 2013!! Yippee!!!
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Comment by temartin61 on January 11, 2013 at 9:01pm
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MartiB we live in Austin, TX so I dropped him off at the Recruiter's office here in Austin and they were going to drive him to SA so I do not know how many go at once. I waited there with him until it was time to leave for SA and there was only one other recruit leaving with him.
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Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on January 11, 2013 at 5:51pm
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Only hopefully 8 more Fridays !! That is better then the 9 I started with
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I talked to my daughter at the Chicago airport and then I got the "I'm here" call a couple hours later. I can't imagine how I would be if I hadn't got that call. I am so sorry, Kyles"s mom. I pray you hear something soon. Plum 121, It always helps to know I'm not alone. I do have a funny story though. Today someone stopped by the house to pick something up. Not wanting to be without my phone (for the next 8 wks.), and not having pockets in my Capris , I put my phone in my bra. I was talking to this couple when the guy interrupted me and said "your chest just lit up. Thankfully, he is a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard and completely understood why my phone was in my bra.lol I guess I better find another way to carry my phone! lol
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Treysmom45, yes, your future Sailor will be sworn in again at MEPS before shipping to the RTC. That swearing in is the one that counts as far as being enlisted and starts the count time in service for pay. (See the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC, which includes a link to Arwen's discussion on what happens at MEPS.)
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Comment by plum121 on January 10, 2013 at 9:21pm
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I am so with you Mini and KylesMom my daughter left on Tuesday and my phone was my chunk of gold. I didn't move without my phone and it stayed by my side. My husband came home from work on Tuesday after talking to some of his colleagues saying how I may not get a call because when they left for bootcamp (ages ago lol) things were different. I told him she will call me tonight and 10 minutes later I got one of the greatest gifts and that was hearing my baby's voice on the other end of that phone :-) that was the best 7 seconds ever....I am sorry KylesMom you missed that call@ mini I am sure your daughter will be fine.
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