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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!

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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

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DEP - Leavin' for bootcamp in October

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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for Boot Camp in October. I will leave the year open so that any future DEPpers leaving in the month of October of any year can join.Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions!

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 490
Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2024

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

If you have October 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 October, ...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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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 Felicia TEXASNAVYMOM on October 28, 2012 at 10:17pm: My Son Left Oct 21 but did not fly to Chicago until the 22nd. I received his letter and he is graduating on a Thursday. Dec 20th. Is there anyone elses son/daughter graduating that day? I just noticed they are usually on Fridays, so I don't understand the Thursday.

Comment by run2befree on October 26, 2012 at 6:02pm: My son left on Tuesday, Oct 23rd, and am sad to say no box today. I was hoping to have received it today. Anyone else have someone leave on 10/23 and receive their "kid in a box" today?

Comment by shannon-ship-03-div-315 on October 26, 2012 at 3:42pm: You can start writing him after you get your form letter, how-ever you will have to wait about 2 weeks before you get your letter from him. They have to train somone to do the mail because it is a government job, and have to learn the process of doing it. Write him anyways. I wrote my son just about every day but Sunday. He loved getting all the letters, he just didn't have time to write back.

Comment by shannon-ship-03-div-315 on October 26, 2012 at 3:40pm: You should get your form letter I would say by Tuesday or Wednesday next week the lastest This is my second time through this. My son just had his PIR on 9/28 This time will fly by. he left on a monday and I got my kid in the box Wednesday and FORM letter on Friday the same week.

Comment by Debbie on October 26, 2012 at 3:32pm: MissTy,

You will receive the letter separately,in just a few days. They don't come with the box!!

Comment by shannon-ship-03-div-315 on October 26, 2012 at 3:21pm: My son in law got to boot camp ok. It was about 2am when he called my daughter

Comment by shannon-ship-03-div-315 on October 25, 2012 at 10:09am: My son left on Aug. 6th and Graduated 9/28, MY SON IN-LAW is leaving today. My daughter says she is fine. I joined up here to help others and her out. Take care ladies our boy/girls are going to be fine. :)

Comment by marysuemcc on October 25, 2012 at 8:13am: FINALLY rec'd my call at about 1:39 in the morning yesterday !!!!!!!!!

i was so happy to hear his voice for those few seconds..........he sounded focused and calm and resolute.............and perhaps a tad tired..........

thank God he arrived safely..........

Comment by bittersweet914 on October 24, 2012 at 9:29pm: Just got home from dropping my boyfriend off at the hotel for tonight. Cant wait to see him swear in the morning. This is sooo bittersweet, I miss him already!

Comment by bclmomct on October 24, 2012 at 5:33pm: Our son just called from the airport, just to say he loved us. They whisked him off this morning before he had a chance to say that. It was funny, he's been very quiet and not shared much how he was feeling, but he said he was already missing us. Makes my heart feel good, but now I know how I'm gonna have to pray for him through the next 8 weeks. He is strong and independent and I know God will get him through this. 64 days or less and counting.....