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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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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: 12 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 Janet (Grad Hold in BS) on July 21, 2013 at 7:29pm: I spent the weekend visiting my sailor son in Charleston this weekend and had a wonderful day on Saturday. After we brought him back to base, we learned that my MIL had died that evening. I am so very very thankful that we were here to be with my son and spend one more day with him to be sure that he was ok. We all decided that it would best for him to skip his grandmother's funeral in order to stay focused on school, but I know he wants to be there. Such a hard decision for a young person. It was so great to see him, to have some idea of where he is living, to give him his truck so he can have a little more independence, and to spend quality time together. It was not easy to say goodbye .... I guess it never will be.

Comment by kfguay on July 19, 2013 at 8:39pm: Darsatm- your sailor will ask you who is coming because they have to have your names at the gate. There is no limit to how many people can come, it's a very intimate graduation, lasts about 30 min. Few people attend, we had 6 members of our family come, loved it! While it is very different from PIR and Power School graduation, I still loved it! It's held inside in the Rickover Auditorium.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 19, 2013 at 7:16pm: Twin 1 left at 2pm Sunday, twin 2 left Saturday night. We booked Sunday evening.

Comment by LYF on July 19, 2013 at 6:39pm: Thank you for your comment. Please let me know if you hear anything new and I will do the same. Trying to figure out when to book airfare and stuff.

Comment by AMH_Ship03Div327 on July 19, 2013 at 5:51pm: Hello @LYF my son is also graduating from BCon 8/30 and headed to Charleston for nuke school. It's my understanding they will likely leave Saturday unless flights are too full.,then they willleave sat nite or sunday at the latest. I am booking my return flight on Sunday just In case.

Comment by LYF on July 19, 2013 at 5:34pm: Hello,

I have a sailor in BC graduating 8/30/13 He is in the Nuke program. Are ther any other Moms that have this in common or have sailors in S. Carolina already? I was wondering in anyone knows when he will leave for A school if graduation is on a Friday before Labor Day on Monday? Any help is appreciated.

Comment by ⚓ darsatm ⚓ on July 19, 2013 at 5:30pm: do we need to get approval to get on base for A school graduation like we did for PIR?

and if so ...is it our sailors responsibility to do so?

and is there a limit to the number of guests?

Comment by march2013 on July 19, 2013 at 7:02am: Cathy my son is in class 1335. I will send you a friend request. So we can exchange names

Comment by SherBear Nuke Mom (ET) on July 19, 2013 at 5:33am: the sailors who are staying in IL get liberty for the weekends when that Monday is a holiday, but it does not apply to the sailors who are flying out.....

Comment by SherBear Nuke Mom (ET) on July 19, 2013 at 5:26am: chrisjoshuasmom, you can go to the airport with your son and wait and sit with him until he flies out. My son was originally leaving at like 12 am, but then called us and said it was changed until 7 am. We headed out to the airport (using Sarges shuttle/cab service) and arrived at the wonderful USO at the airport, where we found out his flight was delayed again until later Sat evening. We went and got security passes so we could accompany him to his flight gate later and then took off for Navy Pier (can ride the train from the airport) and the rest of my family joined us and we had a wonderful day with him and another sailor. Then we got to go sit at his gate with him until they left. You just never know. He will have his itinerary at PIR or shortly after, just make sure you are ready for anything!! you can take his cell phone, laptop, etc to the airport and give those items to him also. My son also requested some boxer briefs and I took 2 pair...he and his friend both promptly went into the restroom and changed out of the "whites'. Happy boy!! LOL