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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.

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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

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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."

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in July

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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in July...I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of July of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 808
Latest Activity: Jun 27, 2023

Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of July(although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!

If you have July 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 July, ...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

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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 Nancytysmom on July 11, 2013 at 12:52pm: Samsmysailor
I am glad to help in a small way that's what's awesome about this site everyone is either in same shoes or just ahead or behind to either encourage what was gone through and what is to come. I can so feel where you are today. My phone was set on high always charged and with me. I hope you find d some peace today. Hugs
Meanwhile everyday is a step closer!

Comment by Rosemary on July 11, 2013 at 12:37pm: Nancytysmom....So glad you got your box! Your elation over it cheered me up as well. I can't wait to get to that part of this journey. Thanks to you and all the other Moms on here for sharing and encouragement. It helps so much! I will feel better when I get the scripted call tonight. Then I will know he is safe on base. This traveling stuff makes me nervous.

Comment by Nancytysmom on July 11, 2013 at 12:21pm: I got my Box!! One happy mama! He listened to me and sent a letter in his pocket. Made my heart complete after crying for half an hour. Mostly happy proud tears. I feel like I was touched by him for a moment hard to explain until you get it.

Comment by MOMOF2BOYS on July 11, 2013 at 11:42am: @ Samsmysailor.... I'm sending hugs your way. My son left a year ago today and I was the same way. I wrote every day and drank a lot of wine!! He is AWO AIRCREW and loves it!

Comment by Rosemary on July 11, 2013 at 11:32am: Thanks for the kind words. I'm still an emotional basket case so I stayed home from work today. I have to say, I did not see this coming, it's so not like me! Looking at him from across the table in his black framed glasses (he usually wears contacts) and noticing for the first time he has this little nervous twitch thing he does with his nose. It made him seem so vulnerable and nerdy but so cute, The fact that when my brother was only 20 the last time I saw and hugged him was saying goodbye at an airport when he went into the Army. He never came back. He died in a drowning during liberty weekend. And that my husband was stressed out to0, I think it all just hit me at once and made it harder.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on July 11, 2013 at 10:53am: Thanks for the inspiration regarding letters ladies. I know when the time comes it will just flow out of me. It's just hard to get a grasp on it just yet. My son has a twin who will be at home for a bit, so I'm sure he will have lots of ideas for us too. LOL

Comment by Nancytysmom on July 11, 2013 at 9:24am: Macamerson
That is me now we are chasing tags on doors.signed that last night put it on door like they would have delivered 9 pm- this am huh! Funny you got that violation in place of the box! That was a bit funny!

Comment by Macamerson on July 11, 2013 at 9:16am: My Box came yesterday an hour after I rushed home from lunch to check. Of course I didn't know this until I got home and there's the door tag. I signed that bad boy quickly and put it back on the door. Going to rush home at lunch again and check. Funny side issue - there was a Toll Violation in with the mail - thank goodness it's only $4.00. My boy apparently didn't have money for a toll and got this viol;ation back in May but it just came. I knew nothing.....Ooops forgot to put it in my letter to him...I hope he laughs about it as I did.

Comment by Nancytysmom on July 11, 2013 at 8:24am: Sierra scrapper
Oops forgot to mention I do write about my crazy moments like my obsession waiting for his dirty box of clothes! How I'm stalking the FedEx guys. I know this will get him laughing. I talk about Navymoms how this site helps. Before he left I was telling him what was going to happen he would roll his eyes and say Mom your crazy don't worry so much. So when I write about it I can hear him saying this. So yesterday the letter was the box came of course and I missed it.Today's letter will be I'm not leaving my house before I get that box! Lol hope that helps

Comment by Jackie on July 11, 2013 at 7:28am: sierra scrapper, i write to britt what i would have talked to her about that day. what her brothers did that was funny or what her sisters have done. i also tell her with each letter i miss u and how very proud of her i am.. and that she needs to stay strong and keep head up. she can do this. encouraging words. i am sure it is challenging for most of the kids. they just need to here encoragment.