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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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RTC Graduation

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 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 Michele Ship 13 Div 265 on July 12, 2014 at 12:06am: Got my form letter today. Anyone out here with ship 13 DIV 265?

Comment by LuvmysailorSON on July 11, 2014 at 9:32pm: @PSV my son left for GL on 7/8.

Comment by Jojo1976 on July 11, 2014 at 9:07pm: Thank u. When you receive the form letter it lets u know.

Comment by NavymomofCO on July 11, 2014 at 9:01pm: Congrats Jojo1976 on getting your form letter. I never even thought about an alternate viewing spot. My SR doesn't ship until 7/28, but I'm still confused about the number of tickets. I've heard three or four. How do you find out for sure?

Comment by Jojo1976 on July 11, 2014 at 8:52pm: Got my form letter today. :-) Ship 11 Div 268 grad date 8/29.... I have a question though If there are more than four people wanting to attend where can the others go during the grad to view it i know the additional cant view at the location but is there somewhere else? Ithought i read it somewhere but cant find it now. Please advise if anyone knows... Thanx...

Comment by PSV.SHIP13.DIV277 on July 11, 2014 at 6:32pm: lemonelephant yeah he told me that he will be sending "the box" to me. We lived together before he left and his parents do not have a permanent address here in the U.S so all of his information is to my home address. i'm hoping i get "the box" soon i'm itching for some type of contact with him even getting that box will put me at ease!

Comment by Jenn83 on July 11, 2014 at 5:21pm: Hi - My son left Monday, 7/7 and i received his box today. By chance, i happened to be working from home today - what luck! Does anyone else have an SR who left that day?

Comment by lemonelephant on July 11, 2014 at 4:51pm: PSV, yes, loved ones of recruits who shipped on the 8th as yours did have started receiving "the box." Since you live in California, it may take a day or so longer. FedEx delivers on Saturday in some areas and not in others. Also, FedEx may still deliver to you today since FedEx has late deliveries in some areas. Also, since your SR is your fiancé and not husband, did he indicate that he was sending "the box" and The Form Letter to you? He may send them to his parents.

Comment by PSV.SHIP13.DIV277 on July 11, 2014 at 3:58pm: @luvmysailorson when did your son leave? i have spoken to a couple moms who's son have left the same day my fiancé did and have already received their boxes!

Comment by PSV.SHIP13.DIV277 on July 11, 2014 at 3:57pm: day 3 without my fiancé! gotta admit its been a rough 3 days but i'm hoping as the days go by, the sooner i will get his box & his form letter so i can start sending him letters! i can't wait for the day that i get my first phone call and letter from him!