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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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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in March

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

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 575
Latest Activity: Jan 20

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

If you have March 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 March, ...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 Ozzy on March 8, 2011 at 9:08am: CMom, Whats the PIR date for your son? Trying to figure out my son's PIR, who left yesterday.

Hugs to ALL the WOW MOM"S on this site! Hang in there...

Comment by Danyelle, Navy Wife :) on March 8, 2011 at 7:31am: Oh the anticipation. I can't call his recruiter just yet, it's 6:30am!!

Good luck to everyone who has loved ones leaving for boot camp this week!

really hoping to update later about my husbands ship/div !! :) Can't wait to send off my letters.

Comment by jdmom on March 8, 2011 at 7:20am: Good Morning all....every time I read someone is leaving the vicegrip squeezes my heart..I can't imagine how I will feel when it is our turn. I put on the BGP this morning, yesterday was not a good day. Hugs and prayers to all!

Comment by decarp on March 8, 2011 at 6:27am: i need those BGP my son leaves next week and i keep flashing back to when he was little then i start tearing up the people at work dont understand but you guys do thank you for being there !! i forgot to mention that my daughter will be leaving in a month after my son shes moving with her airforce man down south so i get a double whammy :( hopefully my pets will keep me out of trouble LOL

Comment by Navy Wife Ginnibean on March 8, 2011 at 1:32am: welcome all the newbies!

Comment by CMom on March 8, 2011 at 1:02am: busy night - just added another to the calendar - woo - hoo!! We will all have sailors before you know it!!

Thanks to everyone for all the support!! Don't know what I would do without each and every one of you!!

BIG GROUP HUG!!!!

Comment by Chimelle 3/149 on March 8, 2011 at 12:56am: I'm calling the recruiter in the morning for sure, then. I wonder how certain the PIR date is for them at this point? Can't it shift? I need to get time off from work and hubby needs to put in vacation requests as soon as we know for sure.

Comment by Mom2aSailor on March 8, 2011 at 12:39am: Thanks all for the hugs! :) I hate it also when people say.. "this is gonna be great for her, she's gonna do so well, she'll be fine" I KNOW all that.... saying those things doesn't make me less sad! ughhhhh I am so thankful that you all understand. Big hugs to you all!! Thoughts and prayers to the group! :)

Comment by CMom on March 8, 2011 at 12:36am: Chimelle - His recruiter called me this morning!! He has a great recruiter -

actually - I called him Friday on my lunch - and he said he didnt know yet but would check before he left for the day - then at 4:30pm friday I text him and he said he still didnt know anything but should know something Monday - I thanked him and said I was sorry to bug him and he replied I reminded him of his mom so no problem!! LOL Then this morning about 9:30 he called me and told me his address and PIR date. I was on cloud nine - I sent the 3 letters I had ready! I have read that they hold all the mail for the first 2 wks but that wont stop me from sending it!! he he he!! Still no box - figure I might get it about Wednesday! We'll see?!?! If I were you - I would call his recruiter tomorrow morning and ask again!! I hope you get it soon!! Be sure to post his ship and division on the calendar and I will add it to your name!!

Just added another wife on the calendar - her hubby leaves tomorrow!! Welcome NavyWifeApril!!! Our thoughts and prayers are with you as well as others for tomorrow and this weeks departures!!

Comment by Chimelle 3/149 on March 8, 2011 at 12:27am: Continuing to pray for our group-especially for those leaving this week. While it's hard to not have them around, knowing that this is what they want to do makes it easier. So far the hardest past for me is the waiting around with no contact, no info. Just the wondering about his day, how he's getting on, what he's experiencing. My first grocery run today was much cheaper and strange-definitely hard to not buy the quantity we needed when he was here!

I'm still waiting for our box-I was certain I'd get it today, but nope. Recruiter said he should have B's address tomorrow so maybe I'll have his ship and division number. CMom-how did you get it so soon?

Big hugs to everyone!