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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 shadesofpurpleNukemom on January 4, 2012 at 9:58pm
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Mine left yesterday. Saw him get sworn in. Called when he landed in Chicago then again at 2:30am from GL.
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Comment by jackiequeen/ship09div076 on January 4, 2012 at 9:52pm
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hip hip hooray! took my sailor to Milwaukee today! We are soooooo excited for this adventure! Tomorrow he goes to MEPS and then off to Great Lakes! Right now we are chillng in our motel room waiting to meet up a cousin of mine and then to take him to his motel for his 10pm curfew. 4:30 comes early tomorrow morning and he almost fainted when Chief Petty Officer--- told him that! LOL!
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 4, 2012 at 9:46pm
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How are we all doing? I know some of you have sent your Recruits off to RTC!
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Comment by jymflo on January 3, 2012 at 10:07pm
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My daughter leaves January 11th. We are also giving her a going away party this Saturday. She is my middle child. I have already scheduled my self off the day she leaves, actually 2 days. I have been crying off and on, my husband doesn't know what to do with me. She's always been with me in Texas, that boot camp seems so far away from us. I read other comments that are similar to mine knowing I'm not alone in how I feel.
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Comment by AmyaodRN on January 3, 2012 at 8:04pm
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My son leaves for bc on January 10, 2012. Going away party is this Saturday. I am terrified to send him away, but so far holding it together. I plan to spend as much time over the next 6 days with him as possible. Then I plan to spend the following 2 days in bed, crying. Unfortunately, I just found this site over the weekend. I am hoping to use it as my lifeline to get through the next 4 years !!
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Hi cathie, my son leaves on January 5 and it is also a new experience for us. I'm planning on taking to my bed with a box of tissues all day Thursday! Anyway, we had his party this past Sunday and the one idea I stole from someone on this site is to have small pieces of paper (postcard size) with pens and asked people to write a note of encouragement. I'll mail them in to my son a few at a time, so that he gets lots of mail. Everyone at the party seemed to think that was a good idea. We'll see what he thinks! Good luck...
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Comment by cathie on January 3, 2012 at 1:35pm
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Hello!
I'm not really sure how this works. I wrote a comment this morning and it doesnt seem to show on the forum so I hope I am not repeating myself. I have a son leaving for boot camp on January 30th, 2012. This is a very new experince me and my family and it is all I can think about these days! My son is ready and cant wait to leave. Are there any other moms out there who have a son or daughter leaving on the 30th? Also, I am planning a going away party for him for this weekend and welcome any unique ideas for the party. I look forward to meeting other mothers and gettting support with the hopes that someday I can give support. :)
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Inovell!! Hello! I knew the name sounded familiar! My son was 11/180! He just got home from Seabee school...had to change rates...so was gone longer. He is a reservist.
I've stayed on the site and help on the PIR groups...I also get the new ones going each week...so I will be recruiting for the next group leader for the next PIR group coming up...will post on that soon.
QUICK NOTE on that...RTC website updates on Mondays (will be tomorrow this week because of the Fed holiday). There is probably no PIR on the 24th of FEB unless they "push" this weeks recruits...I don't really see them doing that because that would be a VERY short BC...barely past 7 weeks.
But, I don't do this with anything military
.Looking forward to meeting all of you...Please read through JessicaB's post (scroll back) and I am sure Inovell will be a wealth of info and support!
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Comment by Micki (Yokosuka Japan~ USS GW) on January 2, 2012 at 6:27pm
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Welcome Inovell....My daughter is leaving on the 24th of this month. She lives in Austin TX and we are from SC, so the weather change will be a tough one for her as well.....I am so happy I found this site, as it has been so helpful for me. Have a great night, Micki
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Comment by lnovell011/180 on January 2, 2012 at 5:58pm
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Hello everyone. My older son is leaving for GL today and I'm looking forward to meeting all of the other moms and family members with recruits in GL in the middle of winter :) I am in Wisconsin but my son is coming from Arizona.
I am a Navy vet myself and my younger son just graduated bootcamp in May 2010 and is stationed in San Diego.
I am already excited to hear everyone's stories and find out when PIR will be.
Welcome to everyone!
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