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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 December 28, 2010 at 8:11pm: Happy Holidays everyone! Hope your time with your DEPper was wonderful and filled with memories. Mine sure was!

70 more sleeps for him, happy and sad for all of us.

Happy New Year!

Comment by STG3_VeNard on December 24, 2010 at 10:13pm: It's fine with me.

Comment by Nanette on December 24, 2010 at 9:22pm: getting ready for our Christmas Eve tradition of Lou Malnati's shipped fresh overnight from Chicago on dry ice. We live in OR. salad, and then warm sugar cookies, hot chocolate and the movie The Polar Express. Earlier in the week rode the Polar Express train AKA Mt. Hood Railroad. It's fun for the little ones, the bum is on the train, the bakers, the conductor punches a letter in your ticket, Santa gives every child a Christmas bell, everyone gets hot chocolate a polar express ceramic mug and they read the story The Polar Express sing carols. Great family fun.

Comment by jdmom on December 24, 2010 at 5:30pm: Merry Christmas Everyone, Enjoy your Sailors to be who knows where the seas will tak them next year! We will get through March together!

Comment by Nanette on December 24, 2010 at 2:56pm: 89 days this is last Christmas together for awhile :-{ I

Comment by Navy Wife Ginnibean on December 21, 2010 at 2:21am: oh skell that's exciting! We all played laser tag last week for a "Christmas" party with the recruiters! ha ha! Oh the days, I don't even wanna think about how many are left, I looked the other day and it was 80-something, yikes! *checks phone* 83 days, wow... We turned in H's final transcripts today and since the holidays he won't be put on the list to go early till the beginning of January, which is nice to know there is no chance of him leaving before the new year.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Comment by skell456 (AO wife) on December 20, 2010 at 12:44am: Thanks Gina!!! That was great advice. I appreciate it so much..... I can not believe it is under 100 days now!! By time I get back on here it will be less than 90 days!!! Time is going by so fast!!! James is going with his Cheif tomorrow to help recruit at a high school he is so excited!!!

Comment by STG3_VeNard on December 16, 2010 at 10:42pm: Jessica as someone who is on DEP most RiC's (Recruiter in charge) are making the PQS a requirement to ship. So all 11 PQS' has to be finished by the time all DEPers ship. You also have to give your recruiter 2 usuable referrals that actually join the navy to become E2 before shipping.

Another tip is to learn the RTC chain of command it will be found in the recruits START guide. If your recruit is smart they will also look up all the names for the chain if command only ones they will not know will be the last 5 which gas to do with the "fleet and ship officers/chiefs" and if course their RDC. But everyone else they should make flash cards abd study those.

I just finished my PQS today and I join the navy in Nov. So it is possible to learn everything you need to know before you ship. I also bought the blue jackets manual and it helps alot because the START guide they give us doesn't have a lot of info. Your recruit should run 3 times a week, do weight training 2 times a week and do a mix of cardio and weight exercises 1 day out of the week (I usually use that for SAT) so basically run every other day example would be mon wed and fri. And weights tues and thurs.

ALL recruits should already know sailors creed, mission of the navy, 11 general orders by heart before they leave. Remember they also need to recite the 11 general orders at random during PT, making a rack, standing in line, ect.

Your recruit can find way more info at the RTC website.

(also they need to practice marching skills!!! Major major thing that will help out slot when you get there. The faster everyone gets it the faster you can move on with training. Funny thing is most people can't remember their left from their right because they get so nervous orthey don't pay attention)

Comment by nytesail on December 16, 2010 at 10:44am: Love it Nanette, I have the same expectations for my son and yes we did spoil him. I was (am) a do it for them Mom, running forgotten homework, books, as they got older payments etc. and that was a bit harmful for them now as an adult. I still have an 18 y.o. daughter that I TRY not to do so much for but then she comes back with......you did it fo rmy brothers. She will realize it is in her best interest one day.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Comment by jdmom on December 15, 2010 at 10:11pm: Down to double digits...remember when we were welcoming everyone to the wait..now it is going tooooooooooooo fast.