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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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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 AmyaodRN on January 20, 2012 at 10:09am
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Dhagar... So sorry about your news. Keeping you both in my thoughts. The doctors there will be taking good care of him!
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Comment by jymflo on January 20, 2012 at 9:59am
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Hope he is.better, my thoughts and prayers for him.
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My recruit just called he's in the VA hospital, had a seizure. Doctors are ruling out epilepsy. They are thinking sleep deprivation and not eating. Just arrived 1-18.
Wow !! Don't really know what to think, just want him better.
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 20, 2012 at 2:01am
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Hello Everyone!
I am in the process of starting the 03/09/2012 PIR group.
If this has been something you have been thinking about I am asking you to hold off so we don't have duplicate groups. I have a mom as of right now (waiting on PIR date confirmation) but will still take a friend request (I'll ALWAYS look at those anytime!) with a private message from anyone interested and just put you in line in case hers is a later date!
Please be patient ladies...stay on here and keep reporting in with your Ship/DIV numbers and PIR dates! Thank you for your help!
FTLW
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FTLW- I did get my box on Monday. I had asked the recruiter yesterday for info on ship/division, and he said it was not available. So I asked today, and he said no info available, but i could take a while. Then I got an email from the recruiter this evening and I have messaged you the info, which does not add up to any division. I have not received the form letter yet.
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AmyaodRN - Have you gotten your box....saw on BC moms that you got some info from Recruiter.
The box can take 7-1o days and the form letter1-2 weeks.
As far as arrival times for PIR groups...it's a HUGE guestimate! My "guess" would be that you are in the 03/02/2012 PIR but it really can vary. WEdnesdays "seem" to be the real "blend" day and I have had a recruit be on hold for two weeks before. That's why I like some info from the recruiter at least. Even then...it can change. The form letter is the most accurate info.
THEN you throw holidays in the mix and it throws the guestimation off even further! I just do the best I can! Also, I appreciate everyones patiience in getting groups started. I know y'all want your "home"!
Don't like to lose the creator of a group right off the bat...you see...once you create a group...it's yours...you can't delete it or change the creator. The creator has a few things they can do to a group that no one else can. It's happened and not the end of the world as we know it...but it's better to try and avoid it if we can!
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Comment by SandySea on January 19, 2012 at 12:49am
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Got the 23 second phone call around 9 p.m. Brief waterworks ensued, but I am glad not to be waiting until 1 a.m. for "the call". Now I can start looking forward to getting an address and PIR date. We will all get through this together!
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FTLW-How confident are you that the next recruits arrived between 1/12 - 1/17?My SR arrived 1/10, and I still have no info on his ship/division. Recruiter has been useless in providing any info.
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Hello!
We will be looking for the mom/wife/GF etc. who will be interested in creating the 03/09/2012 PIR group.
This next Training Group starts with Division 081 and will have the performing division of 917. So if you get that info either in your form letter or from your recruiter that would help. This most likely will be a "mom" who's recruit arrived at BC between 01/12 - 01/17...give or take...there are no exacts.
BC can be anywhere from 7.5 to 9 weeks. It is also possible for recruits to arrive in the same week…or day…but have different PIR dates. Your recruiter may have your recruit’s ship/division as early as 72 hours after arriving at BC. I will take this ship/div # for the purpose of starting a PIR group BUT please wait for the form letter that your recruit will send home to address your mail and send it. The address your recruiter gets oftentimes is incomplete or has too much information that is not necessary for the address.
Ladies, if it is something you think you'd be interested in...Friend me, send me a message and get details.
Thank You!
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Comment by kimmic1989/Eric's Mom on January 18, 2012 at 3:54pm
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AnnA and SandySea....no worries. It WILL get easier. I still say "Good Morning Eric" to an empty bedroom and have my moments of tears but it is getting easier. I have not missed a day writing to him, although I think I may be repeating myself now and then! This site has been amazing. So great to share things with everyone. It really helps and makes you laugh!
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