This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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.
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
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Comment by lemonelephant on January 1, 2015 at 11:52pm
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Check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month before Your Future Sailor Leaves for..., and start discussing some of the things there with your future Sailor such as how to handle bad news and who will be put on the Access List....
If you have not yet joined Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), now is a good time to do so and to begin checking out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) starting with OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (some of you have changes that you need to make--at least change 3) and Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.
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Comment by BootsnPanama on January 1, 2015 at 10:52pm
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SusanBRN, read, read, read. This site is full of information. So far I haven't had a question that couldn't be answered by pages on this site.
Mine leaves January 7th.
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Comment by ShadowB on January 1, 2015 at 8:59pm
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Hi everyone. Happy New Year. My son is leaving for RTC Jan 6. Does anyone have any advice?
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Comment by C'sProudMomma on December 31, 2014 at 5:25pm
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One bit of good advice I saw on here was to not to miss them while they're still here. Enjoy your time and keep a stiff upper lip. They're struggling with their own internal battles too. It's a good path for our kids. I know I need to keep reminding myself of that. :)
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@hearthaven- Thanks for the info and the kind words. Yes, letting our babies go is definitely heart-wrenching. My boy is my one and only. I suppose it isn't easy for anyone...but I'm too YOUNG to be an empty nester! LOL.
@lakeview- I can't help you with the phone question, but I can totally relate to how you feel about your son leaving. My son doesn't want to talk about leaving either. He's just enjoying the time he has left and trying to stay focused. I can only hope that I've given him what he needs as he goes off on his own soon. All I know is it all happened WAY too fast! On the bright side, if he was sitting home doing nothing...I'd be pulling my hair out! :) Time to let 'em fly, mommas. They'll be fine and so will we!
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Thank you adpsmom for your response!
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Comment by adpsmom on December 31, 2014 at 2:13pm
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@lakeview - can't help you with the phone, but just wanted to send hugs your way (((HUGS))). I am sorry you are experiencing this. My son claims to not be nervous at all, and for the most part I believe him. There has to be a little apprehension though. If he were showing signs of second guessing his decision or extreme nervousness, I would so much more of a wreck than I already am! Sending prayers your way.
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Can anyone help me out? I'm really new to all this and I just got a smart phone. I can see all the navy4moms comments on my phone but I can't reply from my phone. How do I do it? I always have to go to my laptop.
My son was with me last night and I made him so upset. He doesn't want me talking about anything to do with the Navy. He said he is already nervous. Any othe moms experiences this?
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RhondaW:
We are going to follow recruiter and our son down to Charlotte on Monday afternoon. Son will check into hotel and then we will take him until 10pm curfew to hang out with us and other family who lives in Charlotte. We will go to MEPs at 8am for his swearing in. Then we will either go to the airport to wait for him there or follow the bus from MEPs over to airport. We are REALLY hoping to be able to get a gate pass to wait with him at the gate but we won't know if we can or not until we actually get to the airport and talk to the airline folks. Otherwise, I guess we'll have to say goodbye before he goes through security. Really, really hoping for that gate pass. Want as much time with him as possible!!!!!
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C'sProudMomma:
I assure you you're not the only one! So many emotions tied in with letting our babies go and grow up even when we know this is what they want, their dream, what is best for them. No matter how proud we are of them, it's still unbelievably hard to give them their wings. No one ever warned me about how hard this was going to be! (In three and a half years, our triplets will be graduating from high school and heading off to college or wherever their dreams take them. I can't imagine how it's going to be to have three leave at once! But our son who's leaving next week is our oldest and first one to leave home which I'm sure makes this all the more difficult. I don't know. I don't like it! lol).
If your son's ship date is the 21st, then yes, he will probably be going to MEPs on the afternoon/evening of the 20th and stay at hotel there and then get up super early on the morning of the 21st to go to MEPs for processing and swearing in, etc.
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