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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.

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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.

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in June

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

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 668
Latest Activity: Jun 12

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

If you have June 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 June, ...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 diannep on May 29, 2010 at 4:42pm: Welcome Wanda! Hope that all goes well for your son and that you can get questions answered on this site and boot camp site.

Comment by TJ's Mom on May 29, 2010 at 12:16pm: Hi Everyone, I am Wanda my son leaves for BC in 17 days from Raleigh NC. Each day I get more nevers. TJ is leaving tonight to go visit his best friend Chris more like a brother in NY. Chris is in Nuke school. He has really help TJ and I with alot of questions. I will just be glad when the BC is behind us. After BC he will be in A school in Penscola FL. I love this site reading all the things that everyone is talked about. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Comment by diannep on May 29, 2010 at 8:15am: Congrats, Jackie, on your son's decision to serve in the Navy! So good that he is so focused and so excited. Mine was that way too...just couldn't wait! Once he goes, be sure to join boot camp group if you are not already on it. Make sure to tell your son that although you may write letters to him as soon as he leaves, he will not get any mail for at least the first 2 weeks (it is withheld from the recruits). So many have their hearts broken that no one is writing them. But the good news is that he will get alot of letters on one day if people are writing him while the mail is being held. :-) You can get an address to write him from his recruiter a few days after he leaves. Be sure to "update" it when you get the form letter (usually in the 2nd week) because that will be the most accurate address. Your "recruiter addressed" letters will get to him though. Also, if you want the picture pkg with the PIR DVD and The Keel (yearbook) in it, be sure to ask him to order PKG A. I think it runs about $160. He can pay for it out of his pay and you can reimburse him later, or you can pay for them at PIR. Also, does he have his wisdom teeth? If so, he may get those out in the beginning of bc. Unless they are totally in and very straight. Sometimes they choose to "watch" someone's teeth but many times, they are taken out. They have very good medical/dental personnel there and the recruits are given some down time to recover. Also, don't forget to give him a phone card (activated) before he leaves. With at least 500 minutes...the pay phone they call from uses up some extra minutes. My son's card ran out in the middle of our conversation once. Luckily, he was at the NEX and able to buy one quickly and call me back for a few minutes, but we should have gotten one with more minutes on it. Also, know that he cannot write to you until after he is there 2-3 weeks, and then usually only on Sundays.They have very little time to write other than that day. Although I mailed my son some self-addressed, stamped envelopes (a couple), they gave him Navy stationery and stamps there (he said they passed them out to them in barracks).
Just some last minute advice! You may already know all of this if you have been on this site for a while, but wanted to make sure.
Good luck to your son!

Comment by diannep on May 28, 2010 at 1:15pm: nikosmom: Yes, I think you are right about the "mental" aspect of bc. I tend to worry as well...and was SO THANKFUL when he finally made it through BattleStations and I knew he was a sailor. Then, of course, I worried about something else! :-) I have learned to pray all day long!

Comment by diannep on May 28, 2010 at 9:16am: Nikosmom: Although address books are allowed to be kept at bc from what I know, someone posted that their son's address book came back in the box. Someone else suggested typing all of the addresses on a sheet of paper and putting in his wallet. He for sure can keep his wallet. Just a suggestion! Glad his back is better! He is still doing his running, pushups and situps, right? Make sure he is staying in tip top shape before arriving to keep from injury. That is one thing my son was good about before he left. Hope you are enjoying your yoga class! A great stess releaser!

Comment by diannep on May 28, 2010 at 7:14am: Your welcome, I'm glad to do it, Steph. I just know how much the moms meant to me when my son was in bc, and I want to return the favor! I'm so glad that you find the site helpful...ME TOO! I'm still "reaching up" to a group of moms where my son is stationed for help. So the chain continues!

Comment by Tobianne on May 27, 2010 at 9:33pm: understand that, mine was just at the lake swimming! What a great place to pick up a staph infection, as well as some sunburn. Here in Ohio the kids are all craving the sunlight so if it is 65 degrees out, they are trying to swim and catch a cold or worse. It was 85 today so maybe no cold but worried about the staph!! lol

Comment by Tobianne on May 27, 2010 at 5:19pm: Nikosmom, just went through this with my daughter. made her go, she had an infection. They put her on antibiotic and "told" her to stay home and down!! Right!! She feels better now but still burning the midnight oil...

Comment by diannep on May 27, 2010 at 2:17pm: Oh no, Nikos Mom. Well, like you said, probably the "Mom" in you wanting nothng to stand in his way. Maybe this will give him a good reason to stay IN at nights for a while and get to bed early! :-) Hope he is 100 percent soon!

Comment by diannep on May 27, 2010 at 2:16pm: Ladies, Make sure to tell your recruits before they leave for boot camp that mail will be held from them for about 2 weeks or so. You don't won't them to think you are not writing to them. Start writing as soon as they leave (with address from recruiter until you get form letter address, then update because that is the accurate one). All letters will get to your children....just maybe alot at one time in the beginning after the hold is lifted. I'm seeing posts on boot camp site that are indicating the recruits think no one is writing to them in the beginning. After the 2-week hold period on the mail, the recruits will receive mail from then on in a timely manner,