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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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 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 DavidSoJersey on February 3, 2011 at 10:49pm: Got my Rate today...AECF after 5 trips to MEPS. I am leaving for GL on May 11th. I am so psyched and ready to go. I am so happy that I don't have a long time to wait and can get my career started with the navy.

Comment by Willsmom on January 31, 2011 at 5:10pm: Thanks for the info, JessicaB-Sailor Mom! I will join it as soon as I can find it!!! lol

Comment by Willsmom on January 30, 2011 at 4:13pm: My son is leaving for boot camp May 11, 2011. He will be in Monterey, Ca for A-school. Although he is 26, I'm still finding it all a bit unnerving, especially with the current state of the world. Finding all of the information on this site invaluable.

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 26, 2011 at 9:48pm: Ladies, one other thought for your recruit to take with them to BC is a cell phone. Don't think I'm crazy, but if they take it with them, they can communicate by text while in route and then when they arrive they can call you with their own cell phone. This way they also won't have to wait in line for the phones at BC. All they have to do after that phone call is take the battery out of their cell phone and put the cell phone and battery inside their shoe or sock, in the box to be sent home. My sailor did this and I was able to communicate with him at the airport before his flight, at the airport in IL, and also while he at dinner before arriving at GL. It was awesome!

Comment by Pomino (ship10 div250 PIR 7-23) on June 2, 2010 at 1:04am: Thank you, diannep. Will do! :-)

Comment by diannep on June 1, 2010 at 5:44pm: PingPongPomino: I meant to say....get on boot camp site too if you are not on that one yet. Very helpful!

Comment by diannep on June 1, 2010 at 5:42pm: PingPongPomino: Welcome! When you get the form letter (probably in about 2 weeks), his PIR date will be on there (Pass in Review Graduation Date). That is the group you should join because the moms/wives on there will all have recruits in the same ship with your son. You will get the most info on there, but stay on this site too because it is very helpful. Just go to "groups" and plug in your PIR date in the search box....if someone has started a group for that PIR date, it will come up and you can join it. Otherwise, maybe you would like to start one! Good luck to your son!

Comment by Pomino (ship10 div250 PIR 7-23) on June 1, 2010 at 2:15pm: Hello, looking for others in my son's group. He left for Great Lakes on May 26. Today, his recruiter just posted his contact info on our son's Facebook wall. It is:
Ship 10 Div 250. Anyone else out there? And, what is the best way to find others either in, or close by, your son or daughter's division? I am having trouble navigating the site!!

Comment by jdmom65(ship13 div 245) on May 29, 2010 at 10:21pm: Thanks you all for sharing, I have come to the conclusion, my son may have been nervous and decided to send everything home. LOL Well better for him not to get in trouble for keeping something, if he wasn't sure. Hoping to meet some of you 07/23. haven't received my letter yet, but counting on this date since he is Div# 245.

Comment by diannep on May 29, 2010 at 4:51pm: Proud Mom: I know that my son's Navy office was closed yesterday for a long Memorial day weekend, so maybe the recruiter's office was closed too. Should be back on Tues. Hope you get an address soon. Won't your son be happy to get 8 letters at one time!