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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: 631
Latest Activity: on Thursday
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 thefer on January 25, 2017 at 3:44pm
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email from a Navy Vet friend who saw our post on facebook - it was encouraging and thought I'd share:
My mom had a horrible time with it. Don't worry he will be just fine. Keep an eye on your mailbox as he will be sending you a letter in a few days. That one is mandatory. What follows after is up to him.
Depending on which division he is in will determine how heavy his workload is. Hopefully he gets a 900 division. Those are pretty chill (as far as boot camp goes). If he has any inherent leadership skills he will be put in a leadership roll in his division and they definitely come with perks....well perks to him, most people don't consider them all that beneficial.
I know it seems like forever, but it's only a couple months. It will go by like the blink of an eye to him, but will be the slowest 2 months of your life.
Every minute will feel like a day to you, and every day will feel like an hour to him. Sundays are days off until noon. So if he does write it will most likely be in those days, meaning it will show up on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on what time they send the mail out.
However in the beginning he will spend most of that time learning how to maintain his uniform and learning who all the leadership of the Navy is.
He will never be bored and will most likely only have time to miss home when he goes to sleep at night at 10:00 pm (like clockwork) and he will be so exhausted that he will only have a few seconds to think of everyone before he totally passes out. And then he will be back up at 6:00 am sharp to start all over again. 7 days a week.
As I said, call anytime, right now he is in his P-days, and these are the hardest as he is becoming accustomed to the schedule and his body is becoming accustomed to the strenuous workouts he will have to do at a moments notice. He will learn "attention to detail" in ways I won't tell you right now ;) as they will seem asinine and barbaric. But they are well thought out and have been proven to work. Besides, I don't want to spoil all his stories when he comes home :).
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Got my form letter on Saturday. PIR March 10th. I got a surprise call on Sunday from my son. He said that he answered all the questions correctly while on watch so the PO let him make a quick call. So glad he hear his voice!
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Comment by kissinghand37 on January 25, 2017 at 11:15am
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Katie 99026 Thefer & broncomom I feel you. I just got my "kid in a box" last night and picked up the Mug and Plate we made two days before she left and can I just tell you...one of the hardest cries I've had since her last night home. I felt fine. I had my head wrapped around it...I thought. But when her sweatshirt still had her scent and was the last thing I had hugged her in....I didn't stand a chance. Her backpack is now on her bed and I will wash her things and pack her items she wanted in her bag for the plane to A School another day. Thankful for my Dad and a close friend that is a Nuke mom for carrying me through while my fiance was in flight on his way home early from his trip. He cat came up and put her paw on my face then started giving me kisses while I was talking to my fiance just before his plane took off. She didn't want me to cry I guess...but then she cuddled my daughters backpack...it's a whole family thing. These kiddos affect so many lives including pets.
I don't worry as much about her getting yelled at or being cold. I worry more about if she is crying when she goes to bed and I can't hug her. Or if she may forget how beautiful she is...and that she is the most special human being there to ME...just like each person there is the MOST special to someone in their lives....that's what makes me cry.
Sorry for the long sappy note. Today is the beginning of Week 2.
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Comment by broncomom1 on January 25, 2017 at 10:41am
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I got the same phone call thefer. Very hard to hear the change in his voice. I did the same, burst out crying and praying for him. stay strong!
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thank you. Got the scripted call last night - as someone told me - much later than I thought it would be. Burst into tears as soon as he hung up. kissinghand.. I think you have a great point/idea/solution. I should be trying to focus on how proud I am of him. I an so very proud. just.. hurts.
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thefer I am in week 3 of my daughter being gone and I did really good at not crying. However this week has been much harder. My thoughts are cry if you need to. Just remember when you write your letters to give them nothing but positive thoughts. At the end of each letter I send to my daughter I also send a motivational quote. Although I may be in tears I'll never let her know that....until I get to hug her neck at graduation of course. :) Hang in there moms. We can do this.
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My son Wyatt left for boot camp on the 23rd. I got that final call that he was there. I am happy that he is safely there, but now the unknown is very hard. I hope that they are doing better than we are emotionally. I got the address from the recruiters office and managed to get a letter sent off to him just before the post office closed. Made my day!!
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Comment by QueenKnight on January 24, 2017 at 7:59pm
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My son is wheels up! Is anyone else tracking the flight? Lol
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Comment by Sar on January 24, 2017 at 5:47pm
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Just started week 3 and still crying, so I don't know Thefer
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thefer...for me...I'm still doing it. It'll be a week tomorrow. I struggle with missing my daughter and feeling like maybe I'm not focusing correctly on how proud of her I am.
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