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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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.

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DEP-Leavin' for Boot Camp in January

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DEP-Leavin' for Boot Camp in January

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 kbfx1 on January 14, 2011 at 8:46pm

9 more days till my boy leaves... my mind is in a thousand places...I can't seem to consintrate lately

Comment by MK on January 14, 2011 at 4:38pm
Beth:  you are welcome for the idea, I'm just glad it worked. Our SR has been there 9 days now, he flew out 1/5.
Comment by Hannahs Mom on January 14, 2011 at 2:03pm
Good morning oregonmom
Comment by oregonmom on January 14, 2011 at 1:38pm

Good morning Navy moms.

Comment by Hannahs Mom on January 14, 2011 at 11:50am
Thank you Beth, her friends are wanting to know what to get her for .  a going away gift, I just told them stamps, self addressed stamped envelopes, and phone cards.  And they are all going to make her some sticky notes to distribute through her bible.  So, she should be set!!!  I am going to miss her so much but she will always be my little girl regardless of where she is or how old she is.  Have a great day everyone!!!
Comment by Navymommalyn on January 14, 2011 at 11:07am
Well Monday is fast approaching so I guess this weekend we  will be packing up his "civilian"life for later use.He already bought his addy book and the sas envelope's sound like a great idea altho he'd say"I'm not a baby I can find stamps myself"lol.Still lot's to do and only a few days to go
Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on January 14, 2011 at 10:37am
Hannahs Mom  instead of a address book i just typed the numbers he would need while in boot camp (and addresses) on a piece of paper and stuck it in the bible   At Dan's Anchor Aweigh party I secretly passes notepaper around and had everyone say something   I plan on giving him the bible right after he swears in  so hopefully he'll look at it at the airport
Comment by Hannahs Mom on January 14, 2011 at 8:44am
We ordered the Bible for Hannah at Christmas time, she reads it every night.  So tonight at her party I am going to ask her friends to make a little note to put in her bible so that she can find them along her way.  The pictures were a great idea, we will be taking quite a few tonight at her Anchors Away party.  Does anyone know if they can have a small address book?  I can't tell you all thank you enough for volunteering info for those of us who are new.  Have a great day and God Bless!!!!
Comment by oregonmom on January 14, 2011 at 1:01am
Thank you Michelle K. I also am going to do this at Chris's party on Saturday also, Thanks for sharing at just the right time xo.
Comment by MK on January 13, 2011 at 6:44pm

Just to share something for those of you who have one leaving soon.  We had read on here that we could purchase a Sailors bible which we did.  We then had friends and family leave "love notes from home" on post it notes and then randomly placed them near verses of encouragement in the bible and we gave it to him when he left.  I wasn't sure if it would get through or if it would get confiscated but I am happy to report the bible has not come home in his box and he hasn't mentioned that he got in trouble for it.  There were about 75 notes in his bible when he left. :)  At least that way your SR can receive a little TLC for those moments when they need to be encouraged until the mail starts rolling in.

 

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