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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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The form letter typically comes around 10-14 days after your recruit arrived at the RTC or about 3-7 days after you receive "the box". Some have gotten them sooner depending on how close they are to the RTC, but some have taken nearly 3 weeks. This is especially true of those who are the first to begin filling a division if they have to wait on others to come in the next week. With the holidays, mail has been slower recently. You can check with the recruiter to see if s/he has an address (or at least Ship and Division numbers) and then if the address has only 3 digits in the Division number, the address is most likely correct, but go to http://bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp to check the address against those there because Recruiters sometimes give the right Ship and Division numbers and wrong street address. If you happen to get a "real" letter before you get a form letter, be sure to write to your recuit and ask that a form letter be sent to you, or at least that he send you the password you will need to print the gate pass. Sometimes the RDC forgets to have the last to fill a division send out the form letters, which causes panic among those waiting at home. Have you received "the box" yet? Some recruits choose to donate their clothes and not send a box if they don't have a cell phone or something valuable to send back. In the meantime, you may want to join PIR Reference Information and/or Boot Camp Mom's. Another group to join, or at least check out the Pages and Discussions in, is New Members Stop Here. (Underlined words indicate clickable links.)
Another thing to consider is, is there someone else that your SR may have sent the form letter to? The SR decides who gets "the box" and the form letter and of course, if he has a wife, he would send them to her.
I hope you hear soon. Take care and blessings to you and yours.
NEW MEMBER HELP DESK.
Boot Camp Videos, Link to Recruit TC, Sample Form Letter, Navy Acronyms. Questions welcome.
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/newmomsstophere
Welcome to Navy For Moms!
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community. Also, check out this Internet OPSEC Safety Video.
Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen