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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

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Latest Activity: 13 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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Comment by BunkerQB on May 27, 2011 at 6:22pm: Great powerpoint presentation - in case you haven't seen it already.
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Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on May 27, 2011 at 2:11pm: Penny, my son just told me yesterday that in order to get into the ELT they have to be in the top 50% of their class in A school and in Power School. i don't know after that what the selection process is. Maybe your son already knows or can find out soon.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on May 27, 2011 at 2:04pm: Hi Mary, thanks for the info about the ankle. I just don't know. It is hard for me to try to help in any way. I tell my son things, and he either doesn't ask questions, or just has to sit back and go with the flow and follow the procedures until the Navy decides that there is more to his injury. This is what I hate, they delay everything so long, with procedure, that he could have been better a long time ago. if they had put him in therapy right away when he sprained it, that may have helped, but instead he didn't get therapy until after two sprains, ER, and finally medical saying they couldn't help him, which they didn't do anything for him anyway. it seems like the Navy Physical Therapist knows something, but now he has to go through the motions of getting therapy first, then see what happens after that. Kind of frustrating.

Comment by Cheryl on May 27, 2011 at 1:48pm: Kat~ Sorry to hear about your son's ankle, but glad that he is doing well with school. I'm sure that everything will be fine.

So glad to hear that all of our Sailors are doing well and progressing nicely.

BLW~Congrats to your son for graduating Prototype! Absolutely AWESOME! I bet you are so excited to see him. Did he like Balston Spa?

TN Navy Mom~My son also has extra PT. He has said that the PT at GC is actually a lot harder and stricter than boot camp!

Casey~ Wow! E-5. That is really wonderful!

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on May 27, 2011 at 1:43pm: rivons, three weeks and he still doesn't know? What rating is he? Just curious.

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on May 27, 2011 at 1:21pm: BLW, your sailor is coming this direction as we live in Washington State on the eastside of Seattle. If he ever needs anything, please tell him to give us a call.

1 1/2 hears, are you kidding me? Where has he been going when on leave?

Casey, at what point did your sailor know he was being chosen for the ELT program? My son is hoping to be chosen for that but is just now about to start Power School. They say that in order to be chosen for ELT you must be at the top of the class (honorman, distinction, etc.) - was that the case for your sailor as well? Love it if you could share. Thanks.

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on May 27, 2011 at 1:09pm: TN mom - t-track for 3 months!!! WOW, that is a long time. My son just started one month of t-track before starting his PS on 6/23. Says he's already tired of sweeping sidewalks in the blistering hot sun! lol

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on May 27, 2011 at 11:46am: Sunnyb - my sailor loves the Charleston area (won't say the same about school LOL). He's an MM and is graduating PS 6/17. A school was a period of adjustment early on, then T Track for 3 months, then back to Power School. He has liked PS better and is looking foward to Prototype after a probably eternity on grad hold.

He's signed up for optional PT with an instructor which he said is pretty intense (some sort of dive qualifying PT?) but he says that with that PT he actually "feels" like he's in the military instead of still in college. Though he did say that after PT with this instructor he had sand in weird places all day. I told him to just consider it exfoliating skin care cream. He failed to see the humor in that but hey, I scrub with what feels like sand and is supposed to make me look younger.

Comment by Sunnyb on May 27, 2011 at 11:10am: So do most nukes like their school in GS? my son will be there after 6/17 grad. He is wanting to go EM and MM for second choice.