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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.

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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 17, 2011 at 2:08pm: WHHHAAAAA!!! (that's me screaming!)

My son's recruiter just called and told him his date is pushed up, he leaves on March 7th for MEPS!

Comment by jdmom on February 16, 2011 at 9:59pm: Ok I am thinking some of you are married to my husband...his words are being quoted here. Must be a Mom vs Dad thing. Welcome to all the new members we will have a wlld March with everyone leaving.

Comment by Ozzy on February 16, 2011 at 8:16pm: Thank you, CMom.

Comment by CMom on February 16, 2011 at 8:08pm: Welcome Kellyka, Cannonpark and Jacob's Grandma - I just added you to the "Calendar"!!

Ozzy - from what I have heard - you are basically guaranteed 2 phone calls home - one to say he arrived safely - and one that says I passed battle stations! Any others are just icing on the cake - but not to expect them so you don't get disappointed if you don't get one! I know that phone calls are earned!! If one person in the group does something wrong - the whole group suffers!! That is one way they teach them team work!! I just keep telling my son - if you see someone struggling - help them - and if you find yourself having problems with something ask a buddy to help you - so you can earn the phone calls!!

We should all tell them to HELP each other - that way we can all get a lot of calls!! LOL But, seriously - don't worry about planning your trip around what "might" happen - go - have fun and take a cell phone - that way he can always call and if you are not available he can leave a msg - and you can listen to it when ever you get down!! I find myself not erasing some of the voice mail messages my son has left for me in the last couple of weeks - so I can just play them and hear his voice when he is gone!! :o)

Comment by Cannonpark03/Div 152 PIR 4/29/11 on February 16, 2011 at 7:10pm: My son's A school is very intense from what I understand. He won't know what language he gets until he gets to Ca. He will be there up to 63 weeks. He then goes to Tx for technical training for another long bit. Then he has to go either to sub school or air crew training and again, he doesn't know which. All of which is very unnerving to me. I'm not really sure he knows just how much pressure he'll be under to learn his language and to do it quickly.

I'm not worried about BC as he's been training and studying for that. I think that should be pretty easy for him. My son is very family oriented, so I think not being able to talk with us will be the hardest. How about yours? Is he worried about the physical part of BC?

Comment by Valtameri on February 16, 2011 at 3:11pm: Hi Cannon and all new folks who have joined!

Comment by Cannonpark03/Div 152 PIR 4/29/11 on February 16, 2011 at 2:44pm: Hi Everyone! My son leaves March 2nd. He's contracted CTI. I can't believe it's almost March. Seems like we've been trying to get him "in" forever and now that it is here I am really nervous for him...not for BC but for his A school, which he has two phases. ~one in Monterey Ca and one in TX. He'll be gone for a very long time! I'm looking for some support because his Dad just keeps saying it's time for him to grow up... (etc.etc.etc) I figure some of you moms will understand... :>)

Comment by Valtameri on February 16, 2011 at 2:35pm: Cool. That's one of the jobs my son was interested in, but there were no openings.

Comment by KellynKaty(corps-Mom) on February 16, 2011 at 2:32pm: He is a hospital corpsman..

Comment by Ozzy on February 16, 2011 at 2:22pm: Silly question, (ok, no such thing a silly question, right?) Trying to plan an alone trip for my husband and I after the 9th, when my son leaves. Did I read somewhere that our kids get to call us, was it during week 3 of Boot Camp?

I would hate to plan a trip and then miss his call because we are laying on a beach somewhere sipping cocktails! lol!