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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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in Sept..I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of Sept of any year can join.Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 601
Latest Activity: Sep 3, 2022
Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of September (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!
If you have September 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 September, ...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.
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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Invisible12, first, the article made me cry. I will send a message with my email address if you don't mind emailing it to me; I am not computer savvy enough to print it from here!
My sons switched bedrooms in June so that my older son could decorate the new one the way he wanted it and make it feel like his room. Since they did it together, it worked well. Maybe you could talk to your son about doing that with his brother, and making it something they could share. Then he still has 'his' room when he comes home, but he will have done something nice for the younger one that will bond them. Mine will not be coming home except here and there, but I am not yet ready to give up his room, either.
Banditosmom...I am very emotional, and am really surprised at how well I am holding it together so far. Of course, those M&M's today helped! So much for swearing off sugar! Tomorrow is another day!
My son-in-law is a videographer, and often does spoofs of music videos for you tube. I am hoping that he will video a spoof of the Village People's "In the Navy" when they are all here this weekend...I just thought that would be a fun sendoff!
I couldn't sleep last night either. Woke up about 2 and never back to sleep. I even got up and checked N4M, but computer said I was crazy and needed re-booting.
I'll fess up, I don't think of myself as this emotional and have never blurbled so much about my feelings. But it does really help. I am glad that N4M starts everyone off and then you move on to the next step with people that you have gotten to know, plus more as the join in. It makes the concept of a PIR group and ultimately his career easier to envision.
Invisible 12--mine actually did get his brother's room; they traded rooms in June! He's been spending a lot of time with his little brother, who is 11, and younger one is really going to miss him.
Bandito's mom--MEPS is 2 hours away for us. He just got a text from the recruiter last night; he will leave the recruiting station at 10am on Monday.
My crash has already started. I couldn't sleep last night, so I stayed up with him until 12:30 watching 'Beyond Scared Straight'. Still had to get up at 5am for work, so I'm dragging today! I will consider it a success if I can keep from completely breaking down in front of him; it's okay after he's gone, but I don't want him to feel bad for leaving. I, so far this week, have avoided sugar, which is a major thing for me. I've been overdoing it on sugar ever since he made his announcement in February!
It is so nice to know that everyone else feels just like I do. It helps. We will ALL make it through this!
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