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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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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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A place to come for support and guidance for anyone with a loved one in the nuke program ⚓️.

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Latest Activity: 7 hours ago

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

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***NEW MEMBERS***

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA (20)

in the right-hand column, under the members (hit "view all") ----->

BEFORE YOU ASK QUESTIONS !!

These articles are the "reference library" for moms, ready to answer FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 24x7 (twenty-four hours, seven days a week). You may not have to post a question after all!

"There is lots to learn before coming to NNPTC." This link will give you much needed info:

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/NNPTC/

NNPTC OMBUDSMAN CONTACT INFO:

(843) 296-9426

MILITARY CRISIS HOTLINE INFO:

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

The time frame for each of the schools is listed under "Your Sailor's Schedule Upon Arrival to GC" to the right ------->

Here's a "Welcome New Members" link from BunkerQB with some good info: Welcome New Members

The NF Rating Information Card can be found at NF Rating Information Card. (If you get the security warning, it is safe to go there.) https://www.thebalancecareers.com/navy-enlisted-rating-descriptions-nuclear-field-3345847 has some good info for you.

IMPORTANT: Read and follow these Operational Security (OPSEC) guidelines. N4M is an open website that can be read by non-members; and not all members are necessarily what they seem. Be smart and keep yourself and all our sailors safe. Keep YOUR safety in mind too. It's human nature to trust and want to share, but don't provide personal information to others. Great and lasting friendships are made on NavyforMoms.com, but use common sense and caution before proceeding. Online chat safety tips

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

Here's the story of RED SHIRT FRIDAY: Red Shirt Friday

USPS "If it fits, it ships" - link to order boxes: USPS If it fits, it ships

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Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 9, 2018 at 10:16pm: Alaska twin went glacier climbing with friends.

Comment by Sgtsixpack on May 9, 2018 at 9:19pm: Just a note - gs an MM class 1801, completed PS and left GS for BS today. Thanks to all for your help.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 9, 2018 at 11:04am: Hi all - Happy Wednesday!

NancyJo - glad you'll get to see everyone on their way to GC! I'm sure you are looking forward to many hugs. Awwww that breaks my heart to think of your granddaughter crying as she leaves her friends. Hopefully they will stay in touch - should work out especially with technology these days. I'm glad you'll be able to have the family together for the funeral - how is your daughter doing?

CoTwin - I'll bet it's beautiful right now in Alaska. I just can't imagine the winters though :o

kaicat - I remember that day a week or so ago when you had all the ice - B's GF sent a picture of it - she & her roommate were out scraping the car windows (and ended up cracking the window!).

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on May 9, 2018 at 9:41am: COTwin, time has flown! Sounds like AK son is finding some peace up there. Hope so. It's nice to hear them making plans for a future. Hang in there with the deployed sailor. It's hard.

I Facetimed with my son and family last night. This morning they are having the walk-through to release their place in San Diego (base housing) and will take off for Nebraska on their way to his new duty in GC. They have the time and want to make it easier on the kids so will do the trip in 3 days. We will have his dad's funeral next week after they arrive. His 5-yr-old daughter was crying her eyes out because she said goodbye to friends that she won't see again. Part of military life. Poor baby.

The volcano in Hawaii has me worried. I heard on the news this morning they have identified 14 vents that have opened up. Yikes! This is bad. Prayers for those poor people.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 8, 2018 at 10:19pm: Jay Dee, You triggered memories for me also. Mine finished the pipeline 2015. He is on his second deployment. Come 2019He will be leaving the Navy. His twin has been out two years already. Time seems to have gone, I don't know where. One lives in Alaska and have adventures of a lifetime. He says he still wants to go to College, but not sure yet what to pursue. The Nuke seems to change his mind every month. He makes me laugh. This deployment is difficult. I have heard nothing from him so far. Not like last one.

I am forever grateful that they made the choice to enlist. They learned invaluable life lessons from it. Somethings they really needed to learn, not from home. They learned responsibility and respect for others.

When I went for Power School graduation, I rented a MIL little house 9 min from base. It had its own yard with a BBQ and we had a dinner for others who's families did not come. It was nice. I listed it in the discussions above.

Comment by kai cat on May 8, 2018 at 2:58pm: Earthquakes are super scary to me! Nature is such a powerful thing.

On a totally separate note - I live in Michigan and it is cold - then it is hot. One day recently we had to scrape ice off the car in the morning and it was 58 degrees and sunny the same afternoon and my son and I needed the air conditioner on the way home! My husband was like "It's 58 - you don't need the AC" - but my son and I were boiling in the hot sun! LOL

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 8, 2018 at 2:22pm: Forgot to mention - got woken up by a 4.5 earthquake this morning! Nothing like a little shaking to get you going in the morning lol :o From the news stories there was no damage or injuries thank goodness. Nothing like what's happening in Hawaii with their big quake the other day and the lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano that has destroyed 26 homes :(

Comment by ProudOfK on May 8, 2018 at 11:44am: And ProudParent the most important thing of all congratulations and enjoy the A School graduation

Comment by ProudOfK on May 8, 2018 at 11:41am: And yes you're right they're not necessarily in class with the same people they were in class in a school with some might be the same and some might be different

Comment by ProudOfK on May 8, 2018 at 11:36am: ProudParent - pretty sure your sons A school grad will be at 9am as there was a Power School grad just last Friday and that only happens every 2 months.

To answer your question about how Power School classes are structured - there are all 3 rates in the same "class" and the whole "class" is on the same schedule for the most part. But the "class" is divided into sections. Each section is a single rate. So they are only in the classroom with their own rate.