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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 Steph Proud AG Mom on October 6, 2014 at 9:39am: MommaH, my son is leaving for RTC on the 8th also. Per my previous post. My daughter hacked my account lol. The 2015 July shippers group she mentions, is on FB. It does help knowing some one there, even by social media.

Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on October 2, 2014 at 8:33pm: Hello Everyone! I am looking for those whose loved ones are set to ship to RTC in July 2015. Please encourage them to join the July 2015 Navy Shippers Page. My daughter knows from experience that going to RTC with some people that you know can make you have such an easier time.

Comment by MoMom15 on September 26, 2014 at 11:56am: I watched the graduation video today. So EXCITING! So much time between now and then. :)

Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on September 26, 2014 at 11:53am: find out end of next week if we belong in this group!! so excited. keeping my fingers crossed.

Comment by mommaH on September 17, 2014 at 12:16pm: Over the summer my son officially enrolled in DEP. His rating is currently ITS but has a rating change request in for CTN (no openings until Feb-Mar). His ship date for RTC is July 8, we were advised it will likely change slightly if he is granted his rating change. Who knows MoMom15, ours could end up at RTC together! My son is so much more confident, focused and relaxed now that he knows his plan. Looking forward to making some great memories this year. July will come way to fast for my liking!

Comment by MoMom15 on September 17, 2014 at 11:59am: My son has completed all the MEPS stuff and signed his contract - there were a few speed bumps in the process but he has his signed contract is scheduled to leave 7/28/15.

The rating he picked is GSE, he really wanted to be in the AIRR program but his eyesight in one eye is 20/25 so he could not get in the program :( . We are hoping he can still be a SAR swimmer somewhere down the road.

This process has made is Senior year more enjoyable, Behave, pass your classes. No where near the stress some of his friends are going thru with taking the college route.

We are scheduled to go on a celebration cruise with a bunch of his classmates and neighbors after graduation. So we have a countdown clock for that. Hard to believe that it is only about 9 months away.

I have been busy watching videos and reading up on what he can expect on his journey. I am extremely proud of him.

This is a turning point for me too. As a single mom, I am once again on the edge of being on my own again ...

Comment by Nukemom on September 8, 2014 at 6:19pm: yes I'm sure we will do a party but I (or we) haven't even begun to think about what to do yet. I guess I'll lurk around over the year and see some of the ideas that other families come up with. And yes our son has already been to MEPS and signed his contract. Thanks for the tips!!!

Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on September 8, 2014 at 11:51am: Hi Nukemom!. Sorry no response over the weekend.. He's calling today to make his appointment to start the paperwork. If your son has been to meps already, then they probably might not have the same ship out date. I like the ideas below, but with my son, food is food.. lol. Since I've been through this already, the best advise is to ready everything on this site, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Make some memories, before he ships out by doing things he enjoys doing. Also, make sure he has a slim black bifold wallet, a little cash, and phone cards, and all his identification when he ships out. And his cell phone and charger, so he can call you and text you until he's with the RDC's at the USO in O'Hare. then you'll get the I'm here scripted call. The first few days are rough. Hang tight, are you planning a going away party?

Comment by Nukemom on September 8, 2014 at 10:39am: This may have been mentioned before, but I thought I would have my future sailor make a list of all his favorite home cooked meals. Since this is his senior year in high school, between all those high school activities, running around with friends and girlfriend, and now Navy activities, we are setting aside one family night each week for the remainder of the 10 months until he leaves for BC. By having him make the list of his favorite home cooked meals, I can be sure that we cover all those several times during his last months at home. It would also be a good idea to have them start making notes of little things they like for snacks that could be shipped like specific kinds of beef jerky, etc. . . .just little things they don't think much about now because they have access to when ever they want. . . .but these little things will mean a lot to them coming in a package in a couple when they are really missing the simple things from their home town. And oh my goodness. . . .only 10 more months!!!!!

Comment by Nukemom on September 5, 2014 at 1:56pm: Hey Stephkid2joining. . . mine just finished up his paperwork this month and will go to boot camp on July 1, 2015. . . so let me know how the paperwork goes with your second one and if they end up with same BC date. . .this is our one and only so I am a newbie and don't have down all the lingo yet ;)