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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
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Comment by teacher/mom Ship 11 Div 108 on January 8, 2013 at 5:56pm
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OK Everyone my son is on his way to the hotel and will be at Meps tomorrow AM missing him already b/c he left before I got home I think he needed to separate himself to get in the right mindset What do the veteran Moms think?
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Comment by J's mom (03 133) on January 8, 2013 at 7:32am
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lemonelephant...Thank you so much. You are a whirlwind of information : ) . This site is wonderful, I am glad I found it. Its nice to go through this journey with people who are going through the same experience. Thank you again for your help.
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 8, 2013 at 3:36am
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J'smom, your future Sailor is covered by Tricare insurance from the day he goes to the RTC, but if something happens and he is sent home, he may have trouble getting health insurance. I suggest that you don’t drop your Future Sailor’s health insurance until after PIR. As KylesMom said POA's are only needed for some people and she did a good job explaining that. I have never had a POA of any kind for my Sailor as an adult and have only had a limited one for my daughter to sell her car. I believe the HIPAA forms will be all I'll need, but some like the security that a MPOA gives or a durable POA gives if the person were to be incapacitated. You can find out about Challenge Coins in Gift Ideas for PIR. You would only have the Red Cross contact your recruit/Sailor in the event of an emergency that affects his immediate family (parent or sibling; grandparents or other relatives only count if they raised him/her in loco parentis). I have had to use the Red Cross to contact my Sailor once in his 4+ years in the Navy and I hope to never have to do that again. Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for.... I also suggest you join Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and New Members Stop Here and check out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) and Discussions there.
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Thanks Nickie2013...I most certainly will.
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Comment by Sandria on January 8, 2013 at 12:12am
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My son left Jan 3rd, my sadness is beginning to be replaced with an enormous sense of pride, Of course, I still can't go into is room, its the little things that creep up on me now. His favorite song on the radio, not buying his favorite things at the grocery store, one less place setting at the dinner table. I started writing letters as many have suggested, I just wish we didn't have to wait so long for their addresses.
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Comment by nickie2013 on January 8, 2013 at 12:03am
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Good luck KylesMom and J's mom, give them hugs until they leave...
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Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on January 7, 2013 at 11:37pm
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Thank you J's Mom...I will be trying to keep up on this page and hope anything I learn and hear will help other's!!! Enjoy your time with your SR!!!!!!!!!!
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KylesMom...best of luck to your son. I am still counting weeks. My son has a countdown calendar in his room.
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My Son just reminded me...he is less then 16 hours until I drop him off for MEPS....Oh I am past the sadness and worrying, and just so freaking PROUD in so many ways !!!!!! I am going to hang on to all my pride and joy and celebrate us as parents raising such amazing "kids". Great job everyone!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by BridgetteH on January 7, 2013 at 11:15pm
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One more week. I went from counting months, to counting weeks, now I'm down to counting days. I know I need to stay strong, but watching him pack his room is just one step in a lot of upcoming changes.
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