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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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Graduates PIR 08/19/11 TG 40
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Discussion Forum
Encouragement Questionnaire
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Places to Eat in Great Lakes
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Ship 10, DIV 267 Navy Mom
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Reading Material for FUN! Navy Basic Acronyms, Laughs for the Hard Days and Top Ten Lines Home From Boot Camp...
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Comment by diannep on July 6, 2011 at 6:54pm
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Thanks, duhhuh! Can't seem to get my calendar to work right now but assume you are talking about the MeetNGreet?
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Comment by gsskygirl(SECF) on July 6, 2011 at 6:41pm
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@ FTLwife thanks for the links!!
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Comment by davesmom on July 6, 2011 at 6:23pm
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Thanks, gsskygirl, if he can't get ahold of us, maybe he will at least leave a voice message!! Just want to hear his voice and hear he's okay!
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@dave's mom... hang in there, He's safe and busy!! Go and have a great time. WO is wonderful this time of year!! There will be more calls.
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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 6, 2011 at 5:40pm
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Fireteamleaderwife, you are right. The RDCs can take away letter writing and phone privileges. That happened to my son's division quite a lot. Every time they did not work as a team, no letter writing allowed. LoL
As Fireteamleaderwife suggested, start writing lots of letter now. This will help you and your SR get through boot camp. Letters really cheer them up.
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The first 3 weeks of boot camp is kind of crazy so hang in there.
Kathy, If you have not received your "Form Letter" by next week you can always contact your daughter's recruiter. He can find out your her ship/division for you. I had to do that too.
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Kathy, when my son was in boot camp I got my "I've arrived safely call." Then my son called me about week 4.
As far as letters go. It can take up to 3 or 4 weeks to get your first letter. This is because Recruits often change ships. The Yeoman have to get organized as far as who is in what ship/Div. I bet you will get 3 or 4 letters in the mail at once.
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 6, 2011 at 5:08pm
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kathy- Did you get a call when she first arrived at Boot?
Have you received your form letter? This has your Recruits CORRECT address , along with your ship/div, PIR date, gate pass info (this is a SECRET code for you to be able to print your GAte PAss for PIR-NEVER publish this code) and other important info for PIR.
They don't get to start writing "real" letters until about the second Sunday of Boot Camp. After that, USUALLY every Sunday is "holiday" time for about 5-7 hours. This can get "eaten" up though if a recruit needs to catch up on stuff. If a DIV is doing well Tuesdays and Thursdays have been known to be added as letter writing days (these can also be taken away-in fact most everything can be taken away). They will start receiving your mail as soon as a MRPO (Mail Recruit Petty Officer) is trained up. The mail is federal and a test has to be passed before he/she can handle it. BUT start writing NOW and send as soon as you have the complete correct address. That way they are ready and waiting when the MRPO is!
Their first "real" call from Boot comes about 3 weeks in...give or take a week!LOL Things change in the military ALL the time as you will come to find out.
That fisrt call from Boot we like to call the "I'm here." call. The second one we like to call the, "I'm still alive." The MOST important one comes after Battlestations (Their final "test" so to speak), which is the ,"I'm a Sailor call."
In between , before, after all those are "earned" calls. These are random. If you get one of these be sure to ask your SR (Seaman Recruit) if the whole DIV is getting calls and please post. That way moms can have the cell glued to them. Occassionally, if the whole DIV IS getting calls some may not be able too as they are standing watch or have other duties. :-(
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Am really missing my SR today. Sure would be nice to get a letter this week. Will be going out of town next week, and may be out of cell phone range (Wyoming!!). If he gets to call next week prayin it will be before we leave! We thought this would be a good time to go out of town to keep us busy. Not so sure now!!
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Comment by kathy on July 6, 2011 at 4:33pm
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MY DAUGHTER IS SHIP 10 DIV 263 I HAVE NOT GOTTEN A LETTER OR A PHONE CALL YET I CARRY MY PHONE EVERYWHERE SHE LEFT ON THE 21ST ANYONE KNOW WHEN I CAN EXPECT A CALL
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