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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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**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).

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

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

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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in August

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

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 746
Latest Activity: Jul 22, 2022

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

We are an extension of the group DEPpers/Future Sailors....in, but not gone yet- see the link above.

If you haven't been there, go there now....There is a ton of information that you will need and are probably dying for....like what to send with them to Boot Camp and BC videos! :)

So if you have general information and comments that will be helpful and/or encouraging for ALL new DEP/Future Sailor Moms, then leave it in that main DEPper/Future Sailors Group, but if you have August 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 August, ...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."

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Comment by Kay_Cee76 on August 21, 2014 at 11:10am: Ginny....yes!! OMG!! Had a friend tell me the same thing yesterday...she said be glad he's not in the streets and not wanting to do anything with his life...I said I know but it still makes it hard..((crybaby me..lol)) I know its to make him a better man and better person so for that, Im so grateful!!!

Comment by Ginny on August 21, 2014 at 11:07am: Kay_Cee76 It's amazing how painful this is. Here we are missing them like crazy and crying and wondering if we can do it. But last night a good friend called, she was crying because her son quit another job, doesn't want to go to school, and has turned her family room into a smelly game room. We raised good kids...we did good!

Comment by Kay_Cee76 on August 21, 2014 at 10:46am: My son just left for BC on yesterday 8/20...got the call from him at 11:45 NC time (10:45 Great Lakes time)...had to really fight the tears so he couldnt tell in my voice how much Im already missing him...he's like mom, Im going to be ok...and I know he will..he's my only child and its so different with him gone...it really hasnt hit me yet as far as having a bad day but I can feel one coming soon now that he's gone...he said mom this will be the last time we speak for about 3 weeks...and I said ok..I said be the best you know to be and Im so proud of you...our last words were I love you...Im missing him guys!!! And its only been one day...

Comment by FlowerPowerNavyMom on August 21, 2014 at 9:45am: gretamae3, you are not alone! I question myself and the fact I wanted this for him all the time. But we've raised strong kids! They can do this! HUGS

Comment by Dannell on August 21, 2014 at 8:05am: You are not alone gretamae3!!! It is absolutely the hardest thing to go through. I'm two weeks in to this... I didn't work for the next cpl days after my daughter left, I was an absolute mess. I still am some days... Allow yourself the tears when you need too, your baby will be ok and so will you! Hugs!!

Comment by gretamae3 (nuke mom) on August 21, 2014 at 7:55am: i got my phone call at 11:45 last night. Am i alone? I cant seem to catch my breathe. I cant stop crying and wondering how I am going to get through my day at work. This is the hardest thing I think I have ever done.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 19, 2014 at 12:13pm: If your future Sailor has yet to ship, be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month before Your Future Sailor Leaves for....

If you have not yet joined Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones), now is a good time to do so (especially if you have a recruit at the RTC) and to begin checking out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) starting with OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (some of you have changes that you need to make--at least change 3) and Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 19, 2014 at 12:04pm: Here are the current PIR groups for the August shippers:

PIR: 09/26/2014  TG 46 - 9 Divisions (299-304, 819, 820 and 946) 4 guests

PIR: 10/03/2014  TG 47 - 11 Divisions (305-314 and 947) 4 guests (Divisions not confirmed by the RTC)

PIR: 10/10/2014  TG 48 (to be updated; begins with Division 315 and contains Division 948)

Click on the date and join to connect with others with loved ones training with your SR.

Comment by Brittanysmom on August 16, 2014 at 9:50pm: My daughter shipped on the 12th. Got my scripted call that night about 7. That was tough! Her box came yesterday. Going crazy not knowing how things are....hope to get a letter soon!

Comment by mishka422 on August 16, 2014 at 10:50am: I got my call!! He sounds great and is doing well. Full of energy. I feel so much better now knowing he is exactly where he wants to be!!!!!!!!