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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 FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 26, 2012 at 5:43pm
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Here is an update on the two most current PIR groups from RTC Website . Plus there will be NO PIR on March 23rd:
TG 17 — 07 Divisions (081–086 & 917) Graduate Friday, March 9, 2012
TG 18 — 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919) Graduate Fri., March 16, 2012
NO GRADUATION MARCH 23, 2012
Here is a list with clickable links for the PIR groups on N4M's:
PIR: Mar 16, 2012 TG 18 - 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919
PIR: Mar 09, 2012 TG 17 - 07 Divisions (081–086 & 917)
PIR: Mar 02, 2012 TG 16 - 09 Divisions (075–080 & 914–916)
NONE on February 24, 2012 per Recruit Training Command
PIR: Feb 17, 2012 TG 13 - 07 Divisions (069–074 & 913)
PIR: Feb 10, 2012 TG 12 - 11 Divisions (061–068, 805, 806 & 912)
PIR: Feb 3, 2012 TG 11 - 10 Divisions (053–060, 804 & 911)
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Comment by AMMOM on January 25, 2012 at 9:07pm
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I changed my screen name after re reading the guidelines(not using our real name). My DEP left on the 18th and got sick on the 20th. Was in the VA hospital all weekend BUT called on Monday and said he was being discharged from the hospital. That's the last word we have heard. It seems like he was allowed to stay at basic. He definitely wanted to. We think he joined the next unit. Last night we got his clothes home and are anxiously waiting the first letter home. His recruiter from home is going to work on his address for us!! My house sure is different without him here!!
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Comment by jackiequeen/ship09div076 on January 25, 2012 at 8:38pm
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my son wrote he "made stick" I am just curious as to what all that means
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Comment by CMO on January 25, 2012 at 12:29am
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Thank you FTLW for the note below and info on PIR, portrait package, etc.!
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CMO - First, I am glad to hear your son is doing better. So sorry he got so sick! Boot Camp "crud" is common and sometimes can take a nasty turn for the worse!
Second - Here is your PIR group:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir03092012
Please join and you will find lots of valuable info, more moms/wives/GF to connect too and "veteran" moms to ask questions and lend support.
Third - Yes, you can mail your son his debit card. I did just fine. They are also offered the opportunity to open a Navy Federal Bank account. You can send a check also.
Here is a link to info on Portraits (there is a lot of info...just haven't attacked it yet to trim it down):
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir03092012/forum/topics/photo-kee...
I believe if he orders everything as a package...Package "A"...it is the best deal and they get the Keel automatically comes with it...then it would just be one payment.
You got it close...LLD - Limited Light Duty.
I hear you about the calls! I got THREE in my first week! One, because he did not get to call from RTC when he first got there (it ahppens - he did call from O'Hare on his cell twice)...I missed it...so again on Tuesday...got that one. That was #2...Then on Thursday for a security clearance call. I was ready for "no news is good news" too!
It sounds odd for us to say "I hope he doesn't call", doesn't it? I'm glad he got to call and hope it is the last ones for a while, LOL!
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Just to let all the new moms know for the PIR date 03/09/2012...RTC did NOT update there site yet. They usually do it on Mondays...so I do not know the cut off as far as Divisions for this TG.
I have a couple of moms interested in starting the 03/16/2012 PIR group...one has a form letter and has to get back to me and one needs a form letter. I would like to have a form letter for the group as far as date since we do not have updated info.
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Question about payment for the boot camp portrait package/keel (cruise book) and also the dvd. If paying by check, can one check be used for both the portrait package/keel and also the dvd? I don't think my son took his debit card or credit card with him (I thought they weren't allowed to, I thought they could only take cash). Is it allowed for me to mail him back his debit card and tuck it inside one of the letters I send to him? I'd rather do that than send a blank check through the mail. I want to make sure he pays early enough to get the package that includes the keel. I'd rather have it all paid for than worry about it at PIR weekend.Also, I received my son's form letter yesterday 23rd (he arrived at GL Jan 10th). I also received a 6am phone call from him yesterday morning (uh oh!), and he was sick in the hospital there with a bacterial infection. He got very sick the previous day 22nd, in bad enough shape that they took him to the hospital and put him on fluids, ran tests, gave meds, etc. He actually sounded good when I spoke with him, and we were able to talk for a good length of time. They were very nice and let him make a couple more calls, so he called my mom/his grandma and his sister/my daughter (she's away at college). He then was allowed to call me again around lunchtime, and said they were getting ready to send him back to boot camp on limited duty for a day or two (forget the formal term for that), then back to full duty. Aside from getting sick, he is loving it there, exactly where he wants to be, and said things are going well. I was (still am) nervous as to why he was allowed to make multiple calls to multiple people yesterday - worried maybe they do that if they're thinking someone will have to go home permanently due to sickness, etc.? He did say though that they were ok'ing him for going back to boot camp, so I guess (hope!) all is ok? I just hope he gets back up to par quickly enough to keep up with everything for PIR (grad date is 3/9). I am really hoping the phone doesn't ring in these coming days, I'm on pins and needles now.
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Comment by DeeDee (ship 03 div 089) on January 24, 2012 at 3:10pm
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I got the box today and I was so happy to look at the clothes he left home in!!! I have not received the form letter but I am anxiously awaiting.
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