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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 OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on February 21, 2011 at 10:34am: Well Im right there with all of you. B just wants to have "FUN" before he goes and that does not include his family. But he did promise me that he would come home to stay this weekend and stay untill his ship date. We have our BIG youth meeting at our church this sat night he has said he would come and then stay at home untill it is time to go. But we will see. I still have 35 days.

Comment by Navy Wife Ginnibean on February 20, 2011 at 11:35pm: Cmom when my best friend was waiting to leave for the Air Force he was very open with me about how he was facing a different life, that everyone around him was either getting married out of high school or just doing nothing (he was the only one that had attempted to go to college at all) and although he would tell me how excited he was to be getting away from all "that" and ready to start an amazing life, he spent SO much time with them, I never questioned him about it, but I found it odd, it was like he knew he was going to leave that life behind so he was going to spend as much time before he did. He knew his family and I would always be there, and would follow into his new life. I just don't think he realized what it was doing to us, however at his going away party, all of us were there and soon after the "friends" bolted to do their own thing, I think it hit him and the last week he spent all his time with family and even drove 3 hrs to see me. Perhaps your son won't see this perspective come into focus until after he is gone, perhaps it will be the day he leaves. All I know is that from watching my friend and now watching my husband prepare to leave, they have so much weighing on their minds, I have to remind myself that my husband is concerned and worried about me more than anything, and sometimes that comes across to me as him being frustrated or irritated at me. I know it's not and I need to breathe and remember this is all going to be okay and a great adventure for us, for him and for all of the future sailors. You all sound like amazing mothers who have raised amazing children, I can't wait to hear how all of them change and grow after BC!

Comment by STG3_VeNard on February 20, 2011 at 10:38pm: Hey you are welcome. I mean I figured that these words would be helpful. I know its not much and i know that its still hard to make this new change in life. But I am hoping I am giving a little strength and words of some little wisdom I may have. I know I am no mother in your postion right now, and I know that i probably cannot relate to you all. But I can relate to all those that have gone on before me that have joined the Navy. It is scary. It is unknown. I mean we can only prepare ourselves so much and even then we arent prepared. But I can give you hope and faith that this new scary path can be just as wonderful as the memories you have now of your child growing up. No words will ever be sufficent enough to try to keep you from becoming a nervous wreak or missing your child. After all you have been there to catch them when they fall. To kiss their booboos and tuck them in at night. To take them to soccer pratice and to cheer them on when the graduated high school. But just like that very first day of school when it was hard to drop them off for the very first time, it will get easier. You just got to tell yourself that. With each new chapter another one has to end... and that chapter that is ending for alot of your children is that of chidhood.

Comment by CMom on February 20, 2011 at 7:46pm: ITSN 2BE - you are the best!! Thanks!!

Comment by CMom on February 20, 2011 at 7:36pm: Thanks everyone for the hugs!! I need them today! It has been a real difficult day for me! We are talking but he is not happy I wont let him have a party here next weekend! I told him if he wanted to meet with his 'friends' in town I would take them all to dinner - but they were not coming out to our little farm and drinking like he wants!! Most of them are underage and I will not be responsible for them! I have my morals and he knows it - I couldn't believe he even asked! I just told him he had a BIG graduation party last yr and I was hoping we could just have family for this one! He is not happy but said he understood.

(Why do I feel like I am letting him down? ugh - parenting is sooo hard!!)

Comment by Patti (7/174) on February 20, 2011 at 7:34pm: @ Cmom, my daughter is leaving the same day as your son. We argue any time she leaves her bedroom, but it's been like that for 18 years, so basically nothing new.

9 days and counting. I have a feeling she'll be an entirely different person the minute the bus door opens and she faces reality...mom wasn't that bad after all!!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on February 20, 2011 at 6:06pm: CMom, ((hugs)) I just want to share this with you. Directly before my son left for BC, it seemed that we were at each other's throats all the time too. Believe me, if your son hasn't already forgotten and forgiven, he will very soon. In the first true phone call (not the I'm here, call) that I got from my son, one of the first things he said to me was "Mom, you were right, I really do miss you and I love you" He also apologized in every single letter to me about acting like a brat (his words) before he left. I never even thought that he was acting that badly, but apparently he did. lol

DTexas, that is sad about his car. :(

Comment by Chimelle 3/149 on February 20, 2011 at 5:54pm: Cmom, I'm right there with you. Today I'm feeling very numb. I cried myself to sleep last night. The last full week at home is now upon us. Reality is closing in on us for sure. I think we're going to need each other a lot coming up. I know we can all help each other through. Sending hugs your way.

Comment by CMom on February 20, 2011 at 5:09pm: Oh, I almost forgot -- Welcome Jennifer - her son goes on the 2nd also! I just added her to the calendar!

Comment by CMom on February 20, 2011 at 5:07pm: Thanks Ozzy!!

ITSN 2BE - Thank you too! You better write -

I think he will do fine once he gets out of here! All his "good" friends went to college - the ones that were left just dont have any ambition they just want to think about the next party! I hate it for my son as he has plans for his life but we all know how easy it is to bend under pressure - I know I should trust him and I do but I do NOT trust these friends! Oh, where are my 'big girl panties?'

he he he!! 8 more day till he goes to Meps!