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

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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 kathlyn1958 on November 15, 2014 at 9:30am: good morning, everyone, had a good talk with my sailor.

so glad I might get to see him soon.

he finding his way through A school.

i'm in the south florida area,so it's usually a long ways for me to travel north.

Comment by BunkerQB on November 15, 2014 at 3:20am: NDM, thank YOU for the gift of sharing who you are.

Sincerely, BQB.

Comment by William in Nashua on November 15, 2014 at 3:13am: Good luck to your son Regi my son was in that same spot exactly two years ago, now he is the reactor operator on attack sub currently underway.

Comment by 8isenuff (ET & MM) on November 15, 2014 at 1:55am: Hello all, finally got a chance to bounce back in here and try to catch up. Some days I can't decide if I feel more like the White Rabbit, or one of those balls in a pinball machine!

NDM, so good to hear from you, and that you are in remission. Love the photo! I am sure you will make the most of your sailor being home. How nice he gets 30+ days! You strike me as a class act--gracious, positive and kind, sprinkled with a sense of humor, even in the midst of your health issues and cancer treatments. Many prayers for you and your family.

CO-Twin, how was your test today? I always look forward to reading your posts. Some people are just natural storytellers! P.S. You really didn't need to share the cold and snow with the rest of us! :-)

B'sNukemom, happy belated birthday!  Funny pictures! Better break out your Under Armour for the weekend. Still going with a December grad date?

Thank you to everyone who wished my daughter a Happy Birthday. She had a pretty good day. Much better than last year's, which was spent at RTC.

Our high school celebrated Veteran's Day with a breakfast and a small program to honor our area veterans on Tuesday.  One of the photos I took is posted above. We had over 70 veterans and their families in attendance. Each one had the opportunity to state his or her name, branch of service, and years served. It was, as always, a humbling and moving experience.  Thank you to all the veterans!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 15, 2014 at 12:15am: NDM, My Doc sent me to a neurologist who told me for my numb hands to take a B complex 100% potency 2 in the AM 2 at night and by golly several months later it was better. I added Mega Red krill oil and it also helps. I now just take one of each every morning.

Comment by Not Da Mama on November 14, 2014 at 11:12pm: YOU all are the greatest bunch ever. When my MM was in the pipeline, and I was stressed and worried, you always came through and Thank YOU for all the prayers and well wishes I received, please keep on cause it’s working…I’m entering my 3^rd month of remission ( Yes, my finger tips are still numb from the chemo too ) but it helps to hear someone out there beat this disease.

OK Sonshine time. My Son comes home in 5 days from Guam. No Passport needed cause he is flying through Hawaii. $1500 round trip air fare with only 1 week advance notice. He talked to command and showed them an email I sent him when I was hospitalized and fearing the worst, kind of a personal good-by to my Son letter. He got 30 days leave, and he can get more by talking to and helping the recruiters here in town. We won’t have him for Christmas, but while I’m still strong enough to let him loose in Las Vegas, and be active, I will take it ( in July the Drs. gave me 6 months). He grew up here, and is a devout rule follower so he never drank, did drugs, or gambled ( which I thought would make him a perfect Nuke ) instead he spent 6 nights a week for 4 years and earned a 2^nd degree Brown belt in Karate, but now that he is 21, drinking and gambling are definitely on the agenda. I will try to keep up at Benihana’s which he requested twice or more while on leave. My niece’s first words were “More Saki” that she learned from me at Benihana. Since the hospital, I haven’t been able to drink much.

Quickly a comment on the arrival of the Geo. Washington in Guam. I remember him mentioning that it always screws up the NEX for a month when a ship comes in. Everyone knows that you stock up a week before an arrival, cause those bubbleheads empty out the NEX of everything and it takes 2-3 weeks before they are restocked.

God Bless you all, and thanks again for all the Love, It helps me as much now as it did when my Son was in Boot Camp. Please accept this Thank You from the entire Mitchell Family.The photo is from our good-by dinner before he shipped to Guam.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 13, 2014 at 7:35pm: welcome nuke wife/nuke mom Invite your hubby to join us also, there are a few nuke dads on here also. He would fit in and we might all like his input.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 13, 2014 at 7:17pm: Have to wear a chef uniform but can wear red socks.

Comment by Regi on November 13, 2014 at 6:58pm: B'sNukeMoM. Yes, he is in Goose Creek and he has certainly been lucky. He PIRed in February of 13 and didn't wait probably more than 3 weeks on any of his holds. As long as oral boards go well, he'll graduate prototype. He already passed comps and has his assignment on a sub out of Bremerton WA to begin sometime in January. He's soooo excited and so is mom. He's within driving distance now instead of being on the opposite coast.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on November 13, 2014 at 6:16pm: It was -7* for my drive but roads were more clear not snowcapped and icy. Warmed up to a whopping 9* by 1.

Have a BIG exam of ServeSafe tomorrow! nervous. My brain does not work as well as it did at 20 something.

TOO cold for November, that is more like January weather.