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Navy For Moms

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:

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).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**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 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 Tobianne on April 20, 2010 at 10:14am: hello, my daughter Kayla leaves for bc on the 16th of June. We were hoping at MEPs she would have been able to leave in Nov. however that did not happen at first she was sad and now she is just like I wish it would get here so I can start my life already!! I do have another leaving in Sept. my son Kyle... its is gonna be a long year I fear!!!

Comment by keke's mom (Ship12, Div 262) on April 15, 2010 at 7:38pm: My son leaves for camp on June 8th. I'm spending as much time with him as I can now. We are throwing him an "Anchors Aweigh" party the weekend before he leaves. The theme of the party is the American flag. I'm picking up things as I see them to make it easier. I found great invitations on a web site called vistaprint.com. They have a postcard size invitation with a navy ship on it and a U.S. flag. I got them in 2 days ago, they are great. I cried when I saw them, makes everything seem so final. Does anybody else have any ideas??

Comment by Woo'sMom (Donna) on March 26, 2010 at 9:26pm: Newbie here . . . just getting acclimated to the site. I have lots to read and learn. Not in a terrible frenzy, YET! Have a daughter headed to BC June 8th; long story, but, finally. After 4 years of NJROTC and ending as Cadet Commander her senior year, we thought she was off to college with a Naval Scholarship. She surprised us, though, with a 3 year detour. Now, refocused, she has returned to what we all know is her love --and her destiny--the Navy. So... I've had much time to prepare for her departure. Still, I know it will sting a little and leave a huge hollow right smack dab in the middle of my heart. I've been reading many of the comments and am glad I joined, for I know a support system and commaradarie will be needed for this journey. Thank all you moms out there who have ripped a child from your flesh, and handed them over to the military. Bless you...and God keep and bless your sailor!

PIR will be up in the air for her. With her ROTC tenure, she may be "signed out" of basic before it ends, based on her superiors' recommendations. Does anyone know how this works? If signed out early, does she graduate with recruits at that time, or will she be able to return and graduate with the recruits she trained with???

Comment by Amanda's Mom 2010 on February 16, 2010 at 7:30pm: Hi there--I'm new; my daughter is 20 and reports on June 8th to BC. We are moving her back home from Oregon (Art School was too boring--so it's the Navy!). We are proud, scared, excited...everything that you are all experiencing. Anyway, I'll find our more of the details when she's home. I think that God was preparing us for her leaving for the Navy with her 6 month move to Oregon (we are in Central Calif). I look forward to bonding with all of you during this process.

Comment by AlabamaNavyMom(ET2) on February 9, 2010 at 9:49am: Good morning everyone - My son leaves for bootcamp 22 Jun he is going to be a FC. Normally he is quite the procrastinator but he started working out the day after he signed up for DEP. Learning the information in the DEP book - that is a different story - he never did like to study. I just pointed out that I was concerned for him and the more he learned now the easier it will be at bootcamp. I told him I would not mention it again and I haven't. Since then he has come to me to help quiz him on the information. It is really hard to step back and let him handle it even though I know he can.