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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 ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 8 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 tina41 on July 12, 2013 at 11:46am: hello all!!

baciandrio---welcome!!

AJs mom--if you are looking for something with a kitchen that is close to base, you could try the foster creek villas. they are beside the foster creek rv park. your sailor will have to reserve them for you though. just a suggestion!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 12, 2013 at 11:40am: Either my son is just overly nice or there is something weirdly different with his experience. I am a chef and so he comes from good food. He told me the food at GC is great! He enjoys it a lot. Says there is a good amount of choices and the quality is good. He likes it better than boot.

Comment by AJ's-Mom on July 12, 2013 at 8:42am: @Baciandrio -- Welcome! My son is in class 1338M. Enjoy your visit! When we visit in December we'll also look for a place with a kitchen so my son can enjoy some home cooking.

Comment by Baciandrio on July 12, 2013 at 12:46am: Hi All, first post in this group. My adopted SR arrived June 8th & is in class 1338A. (Sorry, yes I've been lurking!) Looking forward to my first trip to GC and Charleston for that matter mid August. I've rented a lovely house in Old Charleston for the 6 days I'll be there so that I can least cook him a few good meals. (Galley food is his one and only complaint.) Haven't seen him since he PIR'd in June although I do see him on skype almost nightly. I do have one question...I'd like to spend a day at the beach....so any recommendations on which one and tips? We're intending to go on the Sunday but he'll have to put in his study hours first thing in the morning. I don't want to pack up the car and drive to a beach only to find that we can't get even get a parking spot! Thanks and have a great day.

Comment by William in Nashua on July 11, 2013 at 9:32pm: The part about teaching at prototype reminds me of the old joke about sweepstakes prizes. First prize is a one week vacation in Bayonne, New Jersey. Second prize is two weeks vacation in Bayonne, NJ.

It is interesting that they market the idea of becoming a staff pickup at prototype appear as some sort of plum assignment to students who are still at prototype. But to sailors in the fleet, teaching at prototype is considered undesireable shore duty.

It seems like best shore duty for nukes is a civilian job after the Navy. Lol.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 11, 2013 at 8:51pm: dbilyou My son is in nuke at GC. He is hoping for Pearl Harbor, mostly sub duty though I think.

Comment by suebal MM3 USS California SSN781 on July 11, 2013 at 6:28pm: Thanks Mark...as usual, YOU ARE THE MAN! :)

Comment by hk1853 on July 11, 2013 at 4:15pm: Yes, I so so so agree with you about social skills and their interaction abilities- it's not an easily, if at all, learned trait!

Comment by hk1853 on July 11, 2013 at 4:14pm: And

Comment by hk1853 on July 11, 2013 at 4:14pm: Ah thanks! That definitely makes sense to me. And those are about the numbers I was thinking too. I wonder if out of 100 how many volunteered that did not get chosen? I would really prefer to stay in Charleston right now with my career, so if my sig other would get staff pick up- that would be ideal. Also, probably "people they like" translates into all those qualities that you described. I don't think you would stand out as someone that is popular with the higher ups if you lacked those things!