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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).

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

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 18 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

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

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Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on November 23, 2015 at 12:58pm: Lilo, I hope you feel better. Now that my sailor is married, I get more from my DIL. When I was on my son about not communicating, he said that is his wife's job. Wha?? Uh, no, you never stop being my son. However, the wife is much better.

PacNWmom, your visit sounds marvelous. I'm so glad. You will remember that trip forever and so will your sailor.

J's/S's, you never fail. LOL Yup, typical mom thoughts. Wouldn't it be great if we could just flip a switch and turn the worry off? I forget sometimes that you have 3 in the military. You are my inspiration, Sea Sister!

My 63 yr old sister told me recently that she just eats up the info she gets from me about my sailor. She says she wishes that she had thought of the military as an option when she was young. That just wasn't part of our growing up; never occurred to us. How lucky our children are! The sky's the limit!

Welcome to San Diego, USS Roosevelt! Hooyah!

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on November 23, 2015 at 12:45pm: B'sNuke, I only see a carrier in one view. Is that it? is it in already?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 23, 2015 at 12:35pm: Live feed of the USS Roosevelt coming into San Diego!

http://www.sundiegolive.com/

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 23, 2015 at 11:25am: Hi all - Happy Monday!

Oh all this talk about non-communicative sailors......

J's/S'smom - haha - your post had me laughing (in a good way!)....good thing is you've been through this before so you know the drill!

Just keep repeating (over & over & over again) No news is good news!

PacNWmom - sounds like you had a wonderful visit - Charleston is such a fantastic place to visit! Please do share the AirBnB info up above. The punctured sinus does not sound good - ugh....hopefully they can get that cleared up soon - poor thing :(

Beglish - my sailor did Proto in NY - he really liked it there. Join the Ballston Spa group - not real active but there's some good info in the discussion pages regarding places to live. One of the popular places is The Winners Circle in Saratoga. Mine lived there & liked it. Nice place, close to the reactor site.....they are very Navy friendly.

Comment by Beglish on November 23, 2015 at 7:13am: Hi - my son wasn't in regular contact and I asked him for a quick call or text on Sundays, anytime of the day he finds a minute, and he's started to be pretty good about it. I usually hear from him on his way to or from base to study. I try to limit questions about school and he always gives me his upcoming test schedule so I can do extra prayers that day, now doing power prayers for these intense exams! They definitely know you are supporting them even if they can't respond, and it means so much. My son just got his orders for prototype and is going to NY, which I'm told has fewer requests so it worked out for him since family and girlfriend are in the northeast. Hoping to meet some of you on 12/18! Is there a way we can identify each other? I hear there will be a lot of other grads.

Comment by PacNWmom on November 23, 2015 at 1:35am: Hey folks! I returned from my trip to NC and SC a few days ago, and have finally waded through all the comments on this wall that I missed while I was gone (I intentionally took a break from the internet and email while I was there). Y'all have been talking about some really great stuff, and have, as usual, been super supportive to those who need someone to lean on. I'm continually amazed at how awesome this group is.

I had a great weekend visit with my Nuke son last weekend in Charleston. We stayed in an AirBnB, which I highly recommend. It's a 1 bedroom apt. in the back of a guy's house. When I get a chance I'll post the link for it on the "Hotels, villas, other places to book for a visit" thread. It was about 10 minutes from both NNPTC and downtown Charleston, and very easy to navigate to each. It's literally 2 left turns from NNPTC. It was very clean, well laid out, and even had a hot tub in the yard (which was blissful, btw)!

We had a fantastic, very fancy ($$$) dinner at Brasserie Gigi on Market St downtown one night, then the next night went out to sushi near base with several of his friends. As usual he has chosen a really great group of friends, and it was wonderful to meet them. They had all just classed up to Power School about 10 days prior.

We spent a full day out at Patriots Point. My nuke loves Naval history, so he had a blast reading everything about every ship. To be honest, for me they all started to blur together after about the 3rd room of model ships with plaques of info. But I loved seeing the sparkle in his eyes, and listening to him tell me stories about some of the ships.

He recently had his wisdom teeth removed, but unfortunately the (civilian) dentist punctured his sinus when removing the top right tooth. It got infected and he had been struggling with it for over 3 weeks when I saw him. He didn't look like he felt bad, but he told me his "face hurts". Last Monday they sent him to an oral surgeon, who opened it up and cleaned it out. He says (well, texts) he's feeling much better.

I miss him like crazy, but I know he's happy and thriving where he is. I'm so proud I can hardly stand it. <3

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 23, 2015 at 12:04am

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 23, 2015 at 12:04am: The lack of contact with mine has actually made me better about calling my family.

Comment by Lilo54 on November 22, 2015 at 11:41pm: Thank you so much for all the words of encouragement on the lack of communications from my sailor. Its nice to know that I am not alone in dealing with this non-communication thing. My husband thoughtfully put things in perspective for me. We are all spoiled because we live in a day when cell phones are most common and we can easily communicate with our loved ones (when they want to). He said that back when he was in college, his parents were lucky to hear from him twice during the semester. He only called for a holiday (calling was very expensive). But, he was not very good at writing letters either. So, there was even less communication than there is today. So, I guess the bottom line is I should be happy that I get a two line text once in a while! Also, he told me that I have to be prepared for no communication once he is deployed - especially since he has volunteered for submarines. Ahh - I love my husband - the voice of reason - I guess but doesn't mean I have to like it :(

Comment by tina41 on November 22, 2015 at 8:11pm: hello all!!l

lilo--I know it is hard to not hear from you sailor. I don't know if this will help any, but I always think that "no news is good news" . I always told myself while my son was going thru nuke school that if he didn't text or call for awhile then he was just working hard and doing his best. you are encouraging him and he knows that no matter the outcome of power school, you will be proud of him. ill be praying for him!