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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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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 T.Mom on November 16, 2010 at 8:57pm: Hey maggie DEPper MOM, my daughter decided to do another semester of college since she doesn't leave till march. She is also at her Navy office every tues. and thurs. of the week. From what i can see theses kids have embrace being around each other.

Comment by Nanette on November 15, 2010 at 7:00pm: sorry for being so stupid

Comment by Nanette on November 15, 2010 at 6:45pm: I meant some sort of a link or other web page not here cuz then we would have no place to go. They could have their space like we have ours.

Comment by OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on November 15, 2010 at 2:48pm: IDK Nanett...if the page was on here then they would be able to see all the stuff we say about them..LOL it would be better on facebook??

Comment by Nanette on November 14, 2010 at 4:41pm: brandonsmom do you think maybe someone could start a page for Deppers? and we moms can encourage them to join. As for me I have NO CLUE how to go about setting up a page. We could ask our Deppers if they would be interested in such a page and if there is enough lets get one going. My daughter isn't friends with any Deppers either she sees them on Thurs. and 1 Tues. per month and that's it.

Comment by OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on November 12, 2010 at 12:43pm: I wish my son was friends with some other Deppers!

Comment by nytesail on November 11, 2010 at 10:49pm: Do I really want a count down clock? Time is flying, I'll just follow all of yours. I mentioned my son has been on his own since he was 18, his choice but he was only a phone call away, a text away, a load of laundry and leftovers away. So really, he was only blocks away. Now for the last 2-1/2 months he is over daily to use his computer, he cut his cable to save money and some days we see him, some days he's here while were gone. I try not to ask too much, he seems to get ornary that way so I found this site to help answer my questions and curiosities! Thanks everyone! :) He does get random calls to do his PST's at a YMCA in a neighboring county. The guys there are as Ozzy said, "focused" and they are all very competitive. There are about 6 of them and they have the same goals-Pre-BUD/S and more. Well I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, Packers have a Bye this Sunday, what will we do?

Comment by T.Mom on November 11, 2010 at 11:13am: DKMikesMom My daughter has enlisted as an hospital corpsman dental tech.

Comment by Ozzy on November 10, 2010 at 7:57pm: It must differ from different parts of the country. I know that the New England group of DEP's that my son is with need to be extremely accountable.

He had a DEP meeting this afternoon, he called after the meeting to let me know that a few of them are going to one guys house and he would be home around 10:00. What!!!??? 10:00, okay, that's great son, see you then. I am thinking this is NOT the same messed up/mixed up son from a year ago!!! Thank you God!!

Comment by OMG hes a Sailor (div180) on November 10, 2010 at 7:22pm: My son does not have the greatest friends. Most of them have not even started to look to the future. He has tried to get some of the to enlist.