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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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 July

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

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 808
Latest Activity: Jun 27, 2023

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

If you have July 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 July, ...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

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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 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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Comment by shoprat on June 24, 2011 at 8:18am: Thank you (willsmom) for the info.

Comment by Genbrit-GM GL on June 23, 2011 at 9:13pm: My son graduated high school June 14th, enlisted June 17th and is leaving for BC on July 25th. Pretty quick, I thought I would have more time to help him get ready. He has been trying to get in since January but has been a long process. This site is so helpful I have been reading up on things since February but still have lots of questions and things to do, ha!! ha!!

Comment by Rochesterhillsmom on June 22, 2011 at 8:51am: Shoprat: My son goes to the recruiting office by Lakeside. The recruiter said we could take him out to dinner when he is at the hotel...just has to be back by 10:00 P.M. or something like that. He said to get to MEPS early on the day they leave (like 8:00 a.m.) because he said you never know how many will ship out that day. We did attend the swearing in ceremony for the reserves DEP program and the room is very small. The recruiter said they will be formally removed from the reserves and sworn into the navy...again.

Comment by shoprat on June 22, 2011 at 8:43am: Hi Rochester Hills Mom: My daughter leaves for boot camp on July 25; We are very close to you in Waterford. I've been asking my daughter for a few weeks what time she has to report the day before she ships out. Do you know if you can have dinner with them the night before? I wonder if our kids know each other; she goes to the recruiting office by Great Lakes. We are also planning a shipping out party and just counting down the days now-it's sneaking up quickly.

Comment by DonnaB (ship 11, div 282) on June 21, 2011 at 3:44pm: Hi Patricia! We are in the Vanc area ... not sure what the group is called but it is the office near the mall. Is that your son's group as well?

Comment by Rochesterhillsmom on June 21, 2011 at 2:39pm: Spoke with recruiter yesterday. Will drop son off at his office 7/5 @ 1:00 and they will take him to the hotel in Troy, Michigan that evening. We can attend the swearing in ceremony the next day @ 9:00 a.m. at MEPS also in Troy. Luckily we live only 20 minutes away. Anyone else leaving for GL on 7/6? Starting to get things organized for his "Sail Away" cookout on 7/2. Tigers baseball game on the 3rd., and just chillin with immediate family on the 4th.

Comment by NYfan A School on June 20, 2011 at 3:33pm: our son is leaving on July 12th from Maryland, anyone here from Maryland?

Comment by Patricia - Navy mom x2 :) on June 19, 2011 at 7:45pm: Hi Donna! Are you out of Vanc? My son is in the DEP group in East Vanc station.. but he doesnt leave until 07/12.

Comment by mom21sailor on June 18, 2011 at 7:12pm: My son's date is July 19, he will report to the recruiter's office on July 18th. We are in SW Virginia. We are very proud of him, and sad at the same time, he is our only child. His grandfather was in the Navy in WWII and his uncle was in the Navy as well.

Comment by DonnaB (ship 11, div 282) on June 18, 2011 at 2:05pm: My daughter's date is July 5th and we now have confirmation that she does have to report to her recruiter's office at 2pm on the 4th of July. Anyone else out there heading to GL on the 5th? We are in the Portland/Vancouver area.

She finished up her JC finals this week and is packing up her room, we are planning her going away party for 2 weeks from today so this now feels very real. Both exciting and scary!