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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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**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).

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**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

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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 diannep on July 6, 2010 at 12:53pm: Ginny: Trust me...Kyle won't fall asleep! In fact, when they first arrive, they are kept up all night and the next day. They will be so nervous and be so busy processing that he won't nod off....but he might have a great sleep the first night he can finally sleep in his rack!

Comment by diannep on July 6, 2010 at 12:50pm: Mary, I wouldn't send many stamps. And make sure they are in his wallet which he gets to keep up there. My son said that the RDC's passed out stamps and Navy stationery to them. They can also buy them up there. I had sent no stamps nor paper with him. He said he didn't need them and even threw away 2 self-addressed stamped envelopes I mailed to him with my first letter! !! UGH!

Comment by PeggyM on July 6, 2010 at 8:13am: a week from today everything changes......... thats' it- one week, --7 days,--- 168 hours, ----10,080 minutes,----- 604,800 seconds.......... then Courtney is on a wild ride for the next 8 weeks, We are sure looking forward to her graduation, and getting a little visit in before the next chapter of "A" school......... we all have to look for the positive in all this, yes indeed we are really going to miss them, can't imagine, not having to say "time to get up", "be sure you (fill in the blank here)"..... " can you straighten your room up please ", "be sure you get home on time"........ etc, etc, etc...... Maybe I will make a tape recording of those things and play them daily!!! We have an evening ritual at our house, every nite at bedtime, her whole life, we've said "nite, Court, love ya, have a nice nite, " and she replies in kind........ so we've decided every nite about 8PM we will be doing this ritual and she will too......Have a great day everyone.......keep posting!

Comment by Mary-Ship 11 DIV300 PIR 9/2 on July 5, 2010 at 8:55pm: Peggy I am right there with you. My daughter Morgan is also going to MEPS on the 12th and leaving for BC on the 13th. I also agree that this is just too much for me to handle, but I know I will get through it as all of the other Moms have gone through this same journey. I am trying to look ahead in that I will be saying I can't wait to see her at Graduation! I can't wait for those tears of joy, because the tears I have now are of being worried and sad that I will not be playing the role as her rock. I am so very proud of her for following her dreams, but so very sad that I won't see her happy face or hear her voice each and every day! Guess my emotions have turned very selfish :o(

Comment by PeggyM on July 5, 2010 at 4:36pm: We are following Courtney to MEPS on Monday (12th) staying over in Charlotte and then going to see her off at the airport..... where has the time gone? One minute she was a little bitty first grader in her first dance recital and now, high school graduation and now leaving for the Navy....... she's such a responsible young woman, so accomplished and yet still my little babygirl..........oh dear........ this is too much!

Comment by Maureen62 Proudmomofasailor on July 4, 2010 at 12:49pm: Hello All.....Happy 4th to Everyone ! Sorry I havent been posting but have been trying to read all of your posts. Son leaves for BC July 15th, so that time is creeping up on me. I dont know if I can ever be totally prepared for this but I am going to do my best. Having family pics taken next weekend, cause I do not know when the whole family will be all together again.
Take care and have a wonderful day !

Comment by Mary-Ship 11 DIV300 PIR 9/2 on July 4, 2010 at 12:40pm: Hello Everyone, hope you all enjoy your 4th of July! Morgan leaves in just 9 days and boy this is really starting to hit me. Well, actually she leaves for MEPS in 8 days and off to BC in 9... sighhhhh. We will have a fun filled week ahead of us as I have taken the time off of work to be with her. Not sure what we will be doing, but it will be time spent together which is what is most important. She is with her Dad, Brother and some of her closest friends out in the country this weekend which I know she is having a blast. I am looking forward to this next week and spending time with her, just not coping very well with the fact that it will be a long time before I can spend a week like this with her again...

Comment by Dyl's Mom 943 on July 3, 2010 at 8:58pm: Mary, you didn't mess up....there are two Dylan's. My youngest son is a dereck too except we spell it Darick. Good name!

Comment by Connorsmom(Ship11Div300)PIR9/2 on July 3, 2010 at 11:14am: Funny, I do believe that I might possibly have used all of those "nicknames" when referring to my son at one time or another. Emotions are all over the map, one day yelling at me for asking a question, the next smiling and hugging as he asks me to make "puppy chow" one more time before he leaves (13th). I have learned more about what he will be going through from all of you than he had told me for the 4 months after he signed up! Sometimes he acts like a secret agent on a mission! Happy 4th to everyone!

Comment by Dyl's Mom 943 on July 3, 2010 at 1:34am: Yvonne, my son leaves on the 12th too! I feel exactly the same way! I'm watching these days fly by and I can't believe it's almost THAT time. I'm new to N4M also so I don't have many words of wisdom for you but I do know that looking ahead to his graduation from bc helps me keep going....that, and the fact he's ready to go. I've already ordered a N4M tshirt and I wear it with pride.