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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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**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 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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The box
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Proud and worried
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Comment by Pam- Jared's mom on May 6, 2013 at 6:00pm
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Dropped my son off at the recruiter and we are getting ready to go downtown to have dinner with him. We will go to MEPS to see him sworn in in the morning, and then he will fly from Denver to Chicago. I'm excited for this new chapter in his life but my husband said I embarrassed him by crying. I can't help it! He's the last one to leave home.
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Comment by Nautigator-Ship4Div800 on May 6, 2013 at 4:21pm
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Hi Everyone! I am a mess too!! Dropped my son off at the MEPs hotel yesterday Sunday. He flys out today (May 6th 2013) for GL. Just by reading through the website I think I firgured out he will be in SHIP4DIV800. (SpecOps) I learned you dont want pics of your recruit, so I took those down. No use of name either. If there is another Mom out there with the same BC dates, please connect with me! :) Also my recruit will be in GL for 6 more weeks of additional physical training after PIR! WOW what a journey!
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Comment by Navymomx2 on May 6, 2013 at 10:23am
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OMG I am a hot, freaking mess! My son leaves for MEPS today and will fly out of Boston in the morning. Had my last "at home" hug, and many tears of joy and sadness, this morning. By the grace of God, things just fell into place and my husband, myself and our daughter were just able to book a hotel tonight in Boston. No traffic hassles to deal with now in the morning to get up to MEPs for the big event. And one last trip as a family to the North End for dinner and cannolis. Love my son so much. So proud of him. We wish they could stay little forever, but I know that was never God's plan. His will was for me to raise a man of honor, courage and integrity who will make a difference in this world. The Navy is blessed to have him.
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Comment by mdw6886 (Ship 13 Div 249) on May 6, 2013 at 9:39am
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So, today is the day! My son leaves for his final MEPS today and will fly out tomorrow. We will miss him but are excited that he his started a new chapter in his life.
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Comment by lemonelephant on May 5, 2013 at 6:36pm
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Ladichez, since your future Sailor has signed up with the PACT program, Professional Apprenticeship Career Tracks (PACT) Program within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) has information for you.
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For those of you with a future Sailor who has yet to ship, be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for.... I also suggest you join Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and start checking out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) there.
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Tonight is a family get-together to send my son off. Tomorrow we will drop him off at the recruiters tomorrow, then join him for dinner. Tuesday is his swearing in at MEPS and then his adventure begins. I know he will do well, but it will be awfully quiet in our empty nest.
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Comment by Ladichez on May 5, 2013 at 1:28pm
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@swaneyboyz03 my daughter is going in the Pac program for aviation as well.
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Comment by Jesmom6 on May 5, 2013 at 1:23pm
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We dropped our son off at the recruiters. We will meet him at his hotel tonight and then at meps tomorrow. His friends came to wish him luck this morning. A good bunch of kids that will miss their support system dearly.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on May 3, 2013 at 11:02pm
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I just thought I would pop in and see how everyone is doing. I can't believe it has been three years since i joined this group. My daughter left for boot camp on May 25th 2010. Boot camp drags by but after that the time flies lol. I look forward to seeing all of you in the PIR groups once you find out when your recruit will have PIR.
Does anyone in this group live in the central FL/Gulf Coast area? New Port Richey, Tampa, Clearwater, St Petersburg, Orlando? Would you like to come to a Navy Mom Meet and Greet On Friday May 10 at 7:00pm at Rusty Bellies in Tarpon Springs at the Sponge docks? I would love to meet you all, hang out, and talk about our Sailors. Feel free to bring someone if you like. Also please join my FL facebook group so you can stay connected to other FL moms/families and find out about other meet and Greets in the future. We will be there again the last week of June/first week of July and will host a Meet and Greet Party then as well and host a Navy/Military Scrapbook Make and Take party as well. I love meeting my Navy Mom friends :)https://www.facebook.com/groups/147079298773780/
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