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Navy For Moms

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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Navy Speak

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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NUKE moms

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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: 3 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!

NPTU OMBUDSMAN TEAM (4/2024)

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Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on June 17, 2013 at 2:03pm: DINK to me means 'double income no kids' :-)

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 17, 2013 at 1:03pm: That could describe all of us here.

Comment by susank on June 17, 2013 at 1:01pm: DINK= desperately in need of knowledge

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 17, 2013 at 12:27pm: Some of the moms here remember EVERYTHING. My admiration knows no bounds.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 17, 2013 at 12:20pm: My son finished proto almost a year ago and the ol' brain cells don't remember like they used to. It may be, tho, that he did end up taking comps with everybody else in his group. I do know that he completed all the signature stuff in advance of the curve. Sometimes I don't know half what I think I do.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 17, 2013 at 12:03pm: I don't know when my sailor knew he got ELT exactly, but I'm thinking it was about a month before graduation. He finished his Proto stuff in advance of a lot of people but they still kept him busy before ELT started.

When my sailor went to BS, one of their reactors wasn't working and things got major backed up. Our training reactors are kind of old so it isn't surprising. I haven't heard of DINK. Doesn't sound good does it.

Comment by NF Mom on June 17, 2013 at 11:10am: I know nothing about when in the process MMs volunteer for ELT ( if they must volunteer ) nor when they are notified of selection ( or non-selection ) for ELT.

But I do know many do not find you where they are going in the fleet after prototype until 7 days before prototype graduation, which is the minimum lead time they must give sailors when cutting PCS orders ( at least I believe that is the minimum time ).

In any event my son, and many others ( perhaps a majority ) in his prototype class did not find out where they were going in the fleet until 7 days before prototype graduation, which is also the day they detached from the Goose Creek prototype command and their travel time and leave clock started.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 17, 2013 at 10:54am: Dor, Mary, I would love to hook up with you in Des Moines. Let me know where I can meet you, and what time that should be.

Comment by tina41 on June 17, 2013 at 9:37am: hello al!!

I am back from a weeks visit with our sailor. it was fun!! we went to cypress gardens this time. it is beautiful there. I didn't go on the boat tour. I had a nice girls day with daughter-in-law and her friend shopping and walking around Charleston.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on June 17, 2013 at 9:31am: My son is an ELT and he found out he was selected for ELT about the same time as the others found out where they would be stationed. I think it was about a month or two before proto was done.