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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in May

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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in May...I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of May of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 412
Latest Activity: May 29, 2024

Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of May (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!

If you have May 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 May, ...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 corpsmanwifeschu on May 9, 2011 at 1:52pm: @Xmas, recruiter told me to not be any later than 8:30 as it can start around 9 depending on how many they had to get ready that morning. I don't remember the exact timing of everything, but it was after nine before they called them back to the briefing room before the ceremony. It was all so short, I wish now I had taken a couple more pictures (I take way too many as it is, but only have maybe 10 from that morning). And now it is only four days later and I miss him like crazy!

Comment by xmasgina on May 9, 2011 at 1:16pm: Thanks Connie and MNSunshine.. I"m hoping that I will be able to see it.

Comment by MNSunshine on May 9, 2011 at 1:15pm: xmasqina,

I too was not allow to take actual pictures because of the privacy of others, but did also take mock photos. We too were able to spend some time together in a "family" lounge both before and after the ceremony.

Comment by ConnieC on May 9, 2011 at 9:53am: @ Xmas; I attended my daughter's and the Recruitor told me btw 8-10, I arrived about 8:30 and she hadn't finished processing. I chose to stay and wait, which I am glad I did because we were able to spend a little more time together before she left. I wanted to take pictures of the ceremony but was not allowed to due to the privacy of the others, so we did a mock one for pictures. I am so glad that I insisted to my husband for me to go, it is well worth the drive.

Comment by MNSunshine on May 9, 2011 at 9:27am: xmasqina,

I believe I posted my experience last week, but will respond directly to your question now as well -- sorry if it's a repeat for some ...

The day before swear in, my son's recruiter told me that it would take place between 10 and 1. He also told me he would fly out around noon, so I planned to be there before 10:00.

I have two younger children, so had planned to get them off to school and then head to MEPS. Just after 8 am, my son called. He said he was finished with what he had to do locally, was the only one swearing in and he would try to get them to wait until I could get there. I did the best I could getting my kids situated in short order and drove the 40+ minutes (plus rush-hour traffic) and arrived just after 9 am.

It turned out, he wasn't the only one swearing in, but he was the only one shipping out. He swore in with nearly a dozen others at EXACTLY 10:00.

This is my story. I'm sure it will be good to hear from others as well.

Comment by xmasgina on May 9, 2011 at 8:26am: Recruiter is coming over today for the last time since my son will be leaving next Monday! Because my son is older, I haven't really been with him talking to his recruiter, but today I may stay. The MEPS is pretty far away and I'm hoping he can give me at least an estimate about the time of the swearing in so I can see if we can make it. Did all of you attend swearing in? Were there huge differences in the time they said and the time it took place? It's becoming a reality now.. before it was just somewhere in the distant future!

Comment by lucyloves...herSailor! on May 9, 2011 at 7:42am: @sailorwifechu--- I hope by now you have gotten the call from your hubby!

Comment by ConnieC on May 9, 2011 at 5:55am: @ Sailorwife, mine is "hurry up and wait" :) I am mailing a quick note to my daughter using the recruiter's address as a test and then will compare that address to the official address, if not the same then it is not a big deal. Hope everyone has a wonderful week and hopefully we will all have "Official" address this week!

Comment by corpsmanwifeschu on May 9, 2011 at 12:42am: @BluAngel, I want to call his recruiter too, but it seems that a handful of people who go by that first address from the recruiter it can take a long time for those letters to get to their SR. I've already warned hubby that it will take a while for mail to start, but I WILL be writing him everyday. It takes time for them to train someone to be the mail expert. I want to send them, but I don't want them to get lost in boot camp letter limbo.

Patience, patience, patience...this will be my new mantra.

Comment by BluAnjel NoLongerNavyMom on May 8, 2011 at 7:16pm: @Lala, that's the best, thank you so much!!

@sailorwifeschu - we drove around downtown today and up to Georgetown! Georgeous up there today, I didnt' want to come back down the hill. But off to Dillon tomorrow!! woohoo!! Got postcard of the lake in Georgetown for my dtr and one of a Big Horn sheep (they're so cool!). Will slip them in the mail (in a plain envelope! haha) soon as I get her addy. Hopin to hear about an address tomorrow - sounds like a lot of the SR's that shipped last week have them. I'll be calling the recruiter tomorrow for sure! :)