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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 February 24, 2011 at 9:13am: This forum made me smile again this morning! Sounds like all is in order, CMom. Wave your Wear your big Girl Panties and then we will definitely know who you are!!!

isitmarchyet?, She really said that? WOW! Is the girlfriend worth it, because if she is anything like her mother, ugh!

Comment by OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on February 23, 2011 at 11:55pm: Oh my Please pray we are haveing major Girlfrinds mamma drama...uggg she has tried and tried to keep her daughter away from my son. As we all know that just pushes them together....go figure right. Well now tonight she told me she wanted more for her daughter than just being a Navy wife on a base haveing babies?? WHAT Really??? Ya that is what she said!

Comment by CMom on February 23, 2011 at 10:20pm: Valtameri;

You think??? I figure I might just make a sign and sell a few!! I figure it might pay for the trip?!?! Not to mention I want ITSN 2BE to find me!! LOL

Hope I made a few of you smile for a minute!! I know DMinnasotaMom is!!!

Thanks for the hugs Kathy - I'm sure I will need them!

Comment by Valtameri on February 23, 2011 at 10:02pm: CMom -- If you go to PIR with your big girl panties in your HAND I'm sure you'll get noticed!

Comment by CMom on February 23, 2011 at 8:25pm: WOO HOO FOR THESE!! I sure needed them last night -we met with the recruiter for the last time - asked a few questions - got a few answers - he said all is ready to go!! He will meet with my son on Monday morning and give him his file then we will take him to Meps on Tuesday - He will stay the night at the hotel - we will stay with friends, then we can meet up with him on Wednesday morning to see him get his final swear in. Then off to the airport to wait! We dont know what time he will fly out but should know on Wednesday morning! I cant believe 9 months ago I was one of the first ones here - waiting for others to show up so I had someone to talk with!! Now look at us - We have all been thru so much and yet it has just begun!! I want to sincerely thank all of you!!

ITSN 2BE - I sure hope my son and you PIR on the same day - and I will defenatly look for you - glad you told me what you would be wearing!! LOL LOL

I will find you don't you worry!! I will look like the 'guy above'!!! (I crack myself up!!)

Comment by Ozzy on February 23, 2011 at 6:31pm: My son's final PST is this coming Monday, one week before leaving. His PST's have been every 2 weeks. He is at the Groton Naval Base today for a Mentor Group Session. Last week he went to a hand to hand combat training day, ugh!

Comment by soonergirl99 12/159~5/6/11~Big E on February 23, 2011 at 1:13pm: My son leaves for BC on Thursday, March 10th. I live in the Dallas area and my son lives in Edmond, OK (OKC area). He stayed in OK with his dad after my husband and I moved to Texas in 2007 for my husband's new job. My son was starting his junior year of high school and we didn't want him to change schools during high school. I moved from one state to another my junior year of high school and I wish I could have stayed with the classmates I had had since kindergarten.

Anyway, I am having a going away party for my son next Saturday (March 5th) in the OKC area. Family members are asking what they can give my son as a going away gift. I have no idea so ideas from other moms will be appreciated.

Thanks! Gina

Comment by Ozzy on February 23, 2011 at 11:45am: When I came on this site this morning you all made me smile! Thank you for being here with me......

Comment by jdmom on February 23, 2011 at 11:18am: Wow it is upon us...I am glad I will have all of you(except ITSN 2BE you will be missed) to get through the phone calls & boxes. Somehow I have a feeling Big Girl Panties may not be enough!

Comment by Valtameri on February 23, 2011 at 11:16am: alt 129 ü

Now how will we cyber Moms be able to write to you? You mentioned that we can pm someone or something like that?