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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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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 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: 411
Latest Activity: May 19, 2023
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."
Discussion Forum
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Proud and worried
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Comment by diannep on April 24, 2010 at 8:14am
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Diana: I hope that you can celebrate Mother's Day on the 8th, a very special time with your son before he ships out. Remember, EVERY day is a "Mother's Day" when we have time with our child. I pray that this one will be very special for you...even though celebrated a bit early. Good luck to your son, and get on the boot camp group when he leaves (if you aren't already on there) to stay in touch with other moms going through your experience. So great that your son has made such a wonderful decision to serve his country! Focus on PIR day...you will be so proud of him....
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bisymom: Oh boy...it is hard to understand the Navy sometimes....hurry up and wait is their motto and it is true! My son's 24th birthday was almost 2 weeks ago, and he was hanging around his A School base...graduated already, had verbals...waiting for written so he could leave. But...I realized that he is grown and holidays and birthdays won't be celebrated together many times anymore. I will look at any one of those shared in the future as a gift! I know that the "not knowing' for you all right now as far as when he will leave is hard. They stuck with my son's departure date back in Nov, but he had hoped his time to leave would be moved up (he waited 10 months). My thought is that with the economy still so bad, the military ranks are being flooded. If he doesn't leave 5/5, I hope that you have specail time together until he leaves. So great that you and your husband are going to spend one-on-one time with him at the baseball game and Jay Leno event! I pray that you have special memories being made right now before he goes off to join the Navy.
Happy Birthday to your son! Oh, and I learned real quickly that the Navy is totally in control...and I have no say. Imagine that! HA! Let us know when he finally leaves, and that is when you need to stay on the boot camp group to get support from the other moms going through that with you. The first weeks after he leaves are a bit challenging, but it does get MUCH better! Mine will be home on leave next week before going to his first duty station. Thanks for sharing on here! I go on boot camp group to and answer questions there when I can. We have all been where you are...our motto is: It does get better! :-)
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bistmom: You will find that the Navy can be "hurry up and wait." I hope that the May 4th date becomes 100 percent effective soon so you can meet all of your deadlines. I didn't cancel my son's medical until a week after he left, just to make sure. We had sold his car before he left, and cancelled insurance. I hope it all comes together for you...so many decisions and arrangements, I know. Hang in there...
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Comment by Cat on April 21, 2010 at 4:16pm
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bisymom
holidays affect a lot, my bf left for BC in mid Dec, and because of all these winter holidays, it took him more then 9 weeks to graduate, instead of 8!!
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msleahmom: How great that your son has already experienced a PIR. Good that he got to experience the excitement of PIR and wants to be a part of that. Good for him! He can help the other recruits when they get discouraged...because he has "seen the prize" at the end.
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yes, bisymom: Holidays can affect PIR date. As far as the way they are routing your son out, who knows how that works...but they have their reasons!
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msleahmom: Don't be sad and try not to be worried. The unknown is what is so hard for us moms. But this is a huge wonderful decision that your son has made. Talk alot with him now about what to expect from boot camp. They aren't so forthcoming about it in DEP group. Tell him he will be made to feel 2 inches tall, feel he can do nothing right, be frustrated, etc...in the beginning. (that part gets better after a few weeks)..but that is all part of it. ALL of the recruits go through this. He may not notice the others because he will be concentrating on what he has to do. A description of bc online by one who had been through it said that by week 2 (3rd week for you....first week is processing and doesn't count in the boot camp training)..."you will feel you can do nothing right." Remind your son that this is part of the process to break down so they can build back up. I like what one mom posted: That the RDC (ones in charge) that was so horrible to her son was the one to give him his "sailor" ballcap and tell him: Congratulations, Son. You did a great job." :-) Your son has to keep his eye on the goal...that is, to become a sailor. My son just graduated A School (still on base there at this time). So being further down the road, I can tell you: It is all good! I am so proud of my son, and you will be too. Encourage him, remind him that your letters will be delayed in starting to get to him (probably won't get there for about 2-3 weeks, but then he may get alot at one time which they love!), but that you are supporting him, and know he will do great. My son and I did alot of talking...he knew what was going to be there, although it still was hard to go through. But he did it and is almost ready to go to his duty station. Please ask any questions that you want to on here. You are also welcome to "friend" me if you want to communicate that way. You WILL be proud of your son...claim that. PIR is amazing...you will never feel as proud of him as you will at that moment, imagining all he went through to get there. Hang in there, ok? We are here for you!
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teachertoo: Your son will bond with his shipmates probably pretty quickly. They are all in this together! It is a very special bond that these recruits feel for each other. But of course he will be nervous at first...who wouldn't be? I think we can all understand! He will find wonderful friendships.
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JLC: I know how hard it is. I'm a single parent too...and his father is not alive so I'm the sole parent. So I feel your pain! Sounds like you are doing a great job. Keep up the good work!
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JLC: I am glad to help with whatever knowledge I have accumulated in this adventure! I understand you wanting to be prepared. Absolutely! My son is older, so he did everything on his own without me involved. I didn't even ever meet his recruiter nor talk to him (in another city where my son joined). But I understand how you want all bases covered, for sure! I realize now that...yikes...I'm fortunate that all seemed to go well with my son's entrance into the Navy after reading so many posts of things that could have happened.
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