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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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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 2, 2013 at 8:20pm
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My daughter leaves from Northern Indiana on the 8th - Indy MEPS then Great Lakes. We are finishing last minute items - bought a St. Michael Medallion (Patron Saint of Sailors), POA, IRS POA. As she will be gone during tax season, we will need to file her taxes. She hasn't decided if she wants us to sell her car, so we may need to take care of that.
It will be difficult not being able to receive a text or email from her. She's 20 - when they go off to college at least you can communicate in some fashion.
I don't know how my mom put me on an airplane when I was 15. Lived in Europe as an exchange student for 13 months. I was gone 6 months before I called home. No internet at the time and phone calls were very expensive. She wrote at least once a week -
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Comment by MyKidIsInNavy on January 2, 2013 at 7:15pm
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He will be leaving for GL on the 9th from Milwaukee....so it is a 50 mile bus ride for him...:) The recruiter today said he will take him to Meps on the 8th and then he will be on the bus for GL by noon on the 9th
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Comment by teacher/mom Ship 11 Div 108 on January 2, 2013 at 7:13pm
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KylesMom, My son will also be leaving for GL on the 9th from New Jersey Where are you from? Maybe they will be together. Don't know how all that works. Brand new to this whole roller coaster ride.
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 2, 2013 at 6:25pm
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You'll be fine with the group you are with, but it would be nice to contact others with the same ship date. You may find that others are moved back a day as well because of the 7 day check. With recruiting offices closed yesterday for the holiday, no one was able to get that, so they would have done it today as well and 2 + 7 = 9, so the future Sailors can't report to MEPS until the 9th, just putting that out there.
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thankyou lemon....the recruiter we just left was super nice and very helpful and will follow my Son on his journey and be with him through the next 5 days and be there for me throughout!!! Maybe it was meant to be this way? Now to find other's with loved ones going the same day....I was with another group, but now have to find the right group!!!
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KylesMom, I'm glad it has worked out for him and gives you an extra day.
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Update for my Son...we finally were able to make contact with the local recruiting office after his own recruiter told him to just go into an office anywhere and they would do his 1 week final face to face....Needless to say, we just now left there....things have changed just a tad though....he will be going to hotel on 8th and down to GL on the 9th.....so who else is due to GL on the 9th???? of Jan that is???
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Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for.... I updated it yesterday to add another suggestion from the mom of a recently graduated Sailor.
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Hi Everyone, My son leaves for MEPS on the 8th and swearing in on he 9th then off to GL. Have been reading all the posts for awhile and have learned many useful things. I guess now that the calendar is turning to Jan. his leaving is now becoming real. Having a Good Luck Party for him soon final get together Grandma is taking it pretty bad. keeps asking if he'll change his mind I tell her No he made up his mind a year ago.
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There are to be future Sailors arriving at the RTC on Wednesday and Thursday this week, so you should be able to contact a recruiter on Wednesday.
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