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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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I'm about as new as they come. My son left Tuesday from Louisiana. As we sit here watching rerun after rerun I find myself wondering what he's doing at this very moment. We rec'd his belongings in much less time than what was expected. My question is should we expect a letter within the next few days to give us his address so we can keep in contact with him?

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Comment by lemonelephant on August 4, 2013 at 9:40pm: The form letter with his address and PIR date should arrive by the end of this week or the beginning of next week.

Join the group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in July, to connect with others with loved ones who left the same day and may have PIR together.

You may want to join, or at least check out, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), PIR Reference Information, and New Members Stop Here. Once you know your SR’s PIR date and/or division number, watch in Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and/or at http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-pir-date and join the group for that once it has been created. There will be a lot of great information and support for you in those groups. Be sure to check out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) and Discussions within the groups. Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) will let you know what is happening, but you will also want to check out the other Pages in all of the groups.

(Group names within this comment are clickable links. To join a group, click on the group name and after the group page opens, click on "+ Join..." in the upper right.)

Comment by Tabby on August 4, 2013 at 9:55pm: Thank you so much for the info. We are so looking forward to our first letter. Who knew they would grow up so fast!!! Feeling lil down this eve. Missin my boy!

Comment by lemonelephant on August 4, 2013 at 9:59pm: You are very welcome.

Comment by judith on August 5, 2013 at 6:18pm: hello..My son left from Louisiana with a storm coming in and I thought he would never get there...Finally...he was held up for a week just to get the rest of the dvision there..So you finally get a letter and when he gets the letter it will help him so much..My son has never been a big writer so my letters have been a big help for him...I may not hear from him much but he wants his mama to write him...LOL.. You son and I sat together before he lefted and watch youtube videos of Navy boot camp...We decided the hardest part is just not getting enough sleep...So I write..keep up your spirit..take one day at a time....I am praying for you...so many have made it before you...you have got this...grandpa is rooting for you and my favorite from my mother..Don't let anyone or anything steal your joy..God Bless... Judy

Comment by Tabby on August 5, 2013 at 9:00pm: Thank u for replying. It has been a very long day. Kept myself together at work. I am the office manager at a very busy dental office which is hard to do in a stressful situation. I have found myself guarding our mailbox, commenting under my breath why there is not a letter addressed to me? LOL! Does this make me normal? I know he is fine simply because he has already been through" my" boot camp. He can survive anything. It hurts me to see him go from boyhood into manhood so fast. Where has the time gone? He is a great young man and I know he will do great. Where are you from?

Comment by judith on August 5, 2013 at 10:23pm: I am in Arcadia Louisiana..My son left out of Shreveport with a storm taking them to Oklahoma City..sitting on the runway for hours back to Dallas then to Chicago then to get on a bus to Recruit center...to wait a week for boot camp to get started......what a beginning..they were already tired....He left with a young man from Pineville....so he has been tired ever since..How about your son?. What is his job? You should hear from him soon...Your job is a busy job and I also had a busy job...I am a retired teacher and an older mom. My son's name is Michael. What is your son's name? My son is older and is your son 18..It is hard to let them go when I didn't think he was going into the military in the first place...I will check back to see if you have heard from him...I will get another letter off to him..It is so exciting in Arcadia...LOL....I keep telling him we are having the time of our lives...smiling here .

Comment by Tabby on August 5, 2013 at 10:48pm: He will be 20 in Nov. I am excited. Think this is the best thing that could happen. Needed Structure and disapline. Never a bad kid but needed guidance. His father and I divorced in 2005. Katrina gave us a hard time. But it's been all uphill from there. He's gonna make an excellent Navy Man! Talk with you soon. Have a great evening.