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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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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Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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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 ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 19 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

MAKING POSTS TO THE GROUP - Please be sure you are on page 1 when typing your comments or they may not post!

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Comment by KAM Mom on November 23, 2015 at 11:08pm: PacNWmom, My son just graduated on Nov. 13 from A school and is waiting to class up to Power School. You said that your sailor had just classed up. when did his classes begin? I guess my son will be in the next class. I was just wanting to estimate when he might be starting Power School. I know there is a PS graduation on 12/18. Glad you had such a great time in Charleston. We live near Columbia in SC midlands, so we do get to see our Sailor on a regular basis. We are waiting to hear about Thanksgiving. He already told us that he had duty over Christmas and would come home a few days after Christmas. Best wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 23, 2015 at 9:01pm: Bright future hug our sailer for all of us. I hope to be hugging one of mine at the end of December.

My son told me just this last spring when he was all done and headed to his duty station that the day he left for BC his dad told him "you will never succeed you know" What a turd. My son said it made him try all the harder and for Power school he was second in his class. Funny thing he did not even know until his room mate told him. Love that big tall kid.

Comment by Quiet Mom on November 23, 2015 at 8:05pm: Pardon my error. I'm just an ignorant civilian and did not intend to offend anyone.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on November 23, 2015 at 7:11pm: I'm not a worrier by nature but boy the waterworks can start at the slightest provocation. Britefuture, I was too late getting on the webcam to watch the Roosevelt come in, darn it! But I watched the Vinson last June from my desk in Nebraska all the way from when they were a speck on the horizon to the point they quit showing it on the web cam. I went through quite a few tissues.

Lilo, loved the story of your dad. Our kids really look up to veterans once they become part of the military. It's touching to me. When I see my son get together with his veteran BIL and cousin, there come the waterworks again!

We are such lucky moms to be the parents of those brave sailors! No matter what their job is on their ships or subs, they are out there serving not just their country, but protecting their families and in the process so many people in the world. I'm so proud of our kids!

Comment by JayDee659 on November 23, 2015 at 6:52pm: I'm not a fan of all the shirts that say "Keep calm and....do whatever" but my husband saw one that amused me. It said "I can't keep calm, I'm a Navy Mom". Described me to a tee. Especially that day.

Comment by Lilo54 on November 23, 2015 at 6:45pm: Britefuture - enjoy giving your son some of those big Navy Mom hugs!!!!

By the way, the invitation to Power School graduation was in the mail today. I know that doesn't mean he passed because he still has comps. But now I have to get some extra blue candles and shout out to my son's guardian angel - his grandfather. On Wednesday, it will be my son's 1 year Navy Anniversary and four years to the day since my Dad passed away. My Dad was also Navy during WWII and Coast Guard reserve until he retired. Patrick joined the Navy partly because of his grandfather and they talked military stuff all the time. So, hopefully my sailor will have plenty of support to help him these last few weeks!!!! :)

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 23, 2015 at 6:37pm

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 23, 2015 at 6:25pm: My hubby tells friends & family (often) that this site is what keeps me from going crazy (and taking him along with me!) It's definitely worth any amount of therapy ;-)

Comment by Lilo54 on November 23, 2015 at 6:04pm: Eric's Mom - thanks for sharing your son's experience with me. I know that it is always the possibility that my son could not pass at this point too. But, when we saw him back in October, he told us it was hard and that the "torpedo room" was looking better and better. He said that he accomplished his major goal of completing A school and getting his "crows". No matter what happened in Power School, he felt the Navy would find a good fit for him if it PS didn't work out. So, as others have said, no news is good news but he also might not want us to worry like your son. I am so glad that it worked out so well for your son. Good for him that he tried and made it so far but it sounds like he is much happier in his new rating. I wish him much success.

Oh, and J's/S's Mom - love the tracking chip idea!!! Too late now, but it would have been awesome!!!!

Thanks again to all the encouraging comments. Love this site. This is a great group therapy session for me and helps me keep my sanity during this latest nerve racking experience (but I won't tell my son until after he gets out of Power School).

Comment by britefuture on November 23, 2015 at 5:56pm: I'm not sure who worries more. Mom's/Dad's of Nuke's in training or the trainees themselves. My son stressed out towards the end of PS because he had a few failed tests but he pulled it out in the end. I certainly can't ask anyone not to stress but I can say that you are never alone. Many of us have been there and struggled along the way. I came to this group many times while my son was still in the pipeline. In fact, I'm not sure that I could have gotten through it with out this group. At least not with out strong medication, lol. What ever they do, where ever they wind up in the Navy, they are all hero's to me.

My son is on the Roosevelt and I watched his ship come in while I was at work today. It was very difficult not to cry. What an amazing sight. I get to pick him up tomorrow and hug him like no body's business.