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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in December

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in December

This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in Dec..I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of Dec of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 523
Latest Activity: Oct 2, 2022

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

If you have December 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 December, ...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.

***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 Sets New Physical Fitness Standard to Start Boot Camp. "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 seven seconds for female recruits."

Discussion Forum

What makes December boot camp different?

Started by Arwen. Last reply by Velvetenor Nov 10, 2019. 89 Replies

12/10/18

Started by pilots17. Last reply by rebecca Dec 20, 2018. 15 Replies

Son Left 12/13/17

Started by Janice. Last reply by Danita Dec 28, 2017. 13 Replies

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Comment by mamawalrus on October 27, 2010 at 12:12am
Hi Tis....my son is also leaving Dec 8th, leaving from Albuqurque. Congrats on your daughter and good luck on your move,
Comment by Terri,Bobster's Mom (AWF FTS) on October 26, 2010 at 10:02pm
Wow tis, you have a lot going on!
Comment by tls on October 26, 2010 at 8:38pm
Just got the final word ... my daughter will officially ship December 8 (moved up from December 29). In more excitement, we are relocating for my husband's job ... from Michigan to Minnesota. My daughter's recruiters aren't too thrilled with her leaving, but I have promised them that she will keep on track and will be back to ship out. It's all a lot of changes at once --- emotions are running high in my house right now. But we are trusting God and knowing that He's got it all under control --- even when we don't ....
Comment by Terri,Bobster's Mom (AWF FTS) on October 26, 2010 at 11:21am
Many of you may already have this site (http://www1.netc.navy.mil/nstc/rtcgl/index.asp) but I just found it.
Comment by Terri,Bobster's Mom (AWF FTS) on October 25, 2010 at 3:51pm
Arwen, I appreciate all the information that comes on this group. My son thinks I'm more excited than he is! I'm just very apprehensive and want us both to be as prepared as possible. I have bugged my poor brother to death (retired recruiter). The internet is my best friend at gather info too. Bobby is suppose to go to Air Crew after BC. He's pretty stoked about that!!!
Comment by Arwen on October 25, 2010 at 3:35pm
BobbysMom, I am a Navy veteran, so I've been through this myself, and my son went through boot camp a year ago, so I've had the chance to learn the new way they do things. I've also been on this board for about 18 months, so what I haven't learned through my own or my son's experience, I've been able to learn from other parents' experience.

You can also find some of the detailed information by internet research. Recently I found the official Navy orders for the 2010 holiday standdown (I posted it in the discussion section of this group) that specifies this year's exact dates.
Comment by exxie on October 25, 2010 at 11:53am
To Arwen & JessicaB, THANKS!! I've made some appropriate changes to my profile and page so that I don't tempt fate.

Also, to mamawalrus, I know the Bluejackets Manual was available for purchase at our local (20 miles away) NEX (Navy Exchange) for about $30. I thought I'd cheap out and pick up a copy at Al's Army/Navy, but have not been lucky enough to find one there so far. Thinking I'm going to go ahead and fork out the money before it's too late for The Prince to read it before he leaves. Or maybe I'll give it to him at graduation. Hmmmm . . .
Comment by Terri,Bobster's Mom (AWF FTS) on October 25, 2010 at 9:34am
Arwen, that is some good information. How do you know all of this?
Comment by Arwen on October 25, 2010 at 2:44am
exday, it's hard to tell with SpecOps. They operate according to somewhat different rules. It entirely depends on the "needs of the Navy." If the Navy needs them to be ready to start a new BUDS class early, then they would likely be sent through in the first group to begin training. If there is going to be a delay at BUDS, they might send them through with the last December group to start training, or anywhere in between.

So that everyone knows what we're talking about...

All recruits scheduled to arrive in the last three weeks of December all arrive in the second week, because MEPS and the in-processing units are shut down after Dec 16 (last year it was Dec 17). Recruits scheduled to arrive Dec. 19-30 will all report for duty on or about Dec. 15.

Some new arrivals are put directly into an accelerated schedule to fill out divisions that didn't quite fill up the week before. They're lucky that they will finish boot camp quickly, but unlucky because they will be tossed into a division of recruits who have already been processing/training together for as long as 4-5 days. They have a steep learning curve.

Half of the remaining recruits are put in processing for about a week, then put into training. The other half are held in processing for 10 days to two full weeks (my son arrived on the last day, then was in processing for 12 days, and his was NOT the last division to start training).

During those 1-2 weeks the holiday processing divisions (what else do I call them?) learn some basics. They learn basic discipline, marching, uniform care, bed making, and go for medical checkups, get uniforms and other "housekeeping" type of things.

There is an advantage to all of this. By the time they start day 1-1, they are far more prepared than most divisions are on the first day of training. They are "ahead of the game" so when they start classroom and formal hands-on training they are less stressed, more knowledgeable and more disciplined than most other divisions who don't have the extra 1-2 weeks of basic military drill and training. All but one of the nine divisions in my son's training group earned honors. It doesn't really give them anything tangible, like a promotion or ribbon, but it does give them pride to be associated with success.
Comment by mamawalrus on October 24, 2010 at 9:48pm
How do you get ahold of the Bluejackets manuel?
 

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