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

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 2 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 Kat (MM Nuke) on May 22, 2011 at 10:29pm: Have fun with him Dor. Sounds like a nice trip to WA. It's nice and cool up that way.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 22, 2011 at 9:45pm: That's amazing, Marybeth! I'm so coming to visit you!! :)

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 22, 2011 at 8:00pm: Yup. I'm the last one. Older brother in WA in the Navy and married. Older sister in MO, married, teacher, and two kids. And then me. :P

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on May 22, 2011 at 7:58pm: NavyMomLG - that is funny. I haven't heard that one before either.

My kids about have a cow when I come up with some saying they have never heard before. I just tell them "geez, you sure aren't on top of all the sayings out there." ha.

Emily, just remember that mom's want everything to be perfect, for everyone, and it does freak us out with trying to make everything perfect and special. it might seem like she's freaking, but it's all with good intentions. And you are her baby, so I'm sure it's kind of setting in for her that you will be gone soon, too, and she won't have any kiddos around. It's a strange feeling and hits us moms like a ton of bricks.

I couldn't hardly wait for my son to leave for bootcamp because he was driving us nuts. Just a lot of laziness and lack of respect, not that he was out doing bad things. I kept telling myself "just one more week, just 3 more days." the morning he left, and two days after that, were probably the worst days of my life. I never knew I could miss someone so much. At least I still have my daughter at home, for now. Your mom won't have anyone, right?

Hang in there and go with the flow. Your mom loves fussing over you.

Comment by NavyMomLG on May 22, 2011 at 7:38pm: Hang in there Emily, the time will fly by. Sometimes we mom's just can't help it. My 22 year old claimed I was 'fly'n my freak flag' this weekend. Never heard that one before, and we were just doing yard work!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 22, 2011 at 7:05pm: Don't worry, Elizabeth. I'm still here, too. I'm not so sure I'm going to survive the week dealing with my mother-- she's going nutzo because of everything going on. Not to mention her baby is graduating and she's running around with her head cut off trying to get things together for the party.

I'm definitely counting down the days until I move out... 89!

Comment by NavyMomLG on May 22, 2011 at 6:23pm: I think it is probably my taste - I had a cake pop from Starbucks and didn't particularly like that either. Oh well...fun to try new things!

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on May 22, 2011 at 6:20pm: no, I did the spice cake balls last week with the cream cheese frosting and they turned out great. used the white choc. coating. Hmmm, maybe you don't have a taste for that type of thing. I like them, but certainly don't eat more than two.

One thing a friend of mine said she does with her spice cake balls is adds an extra egg and uses buttermilk. I didn't add buttermilk to mine, but added an extra egg.

Comment by NavyMomLG on May 22, 2011 at 6:15pm: I used a spice cake mix with just two tablespoons of cream cheese frosting. Dipped them in white chocolate. The cake alone was so moist I really didn't even need the frosting. Maybe the wrong type of cake.

We didn't get anything more than rain in Oakdale, and now the sun is out and the breeze is beautiful. Sure feel for those in the northern suburbs, quite a bit of damage.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on May 22, 2011 at 5:55pm: NavyMomLG - what did you mix with the cake crumbs? I made my first batch with the sugar free coffee creamer liquid and used just enough to moisten it so I could roll it into balls and freeze. They weren't really sickningly sweet at all. I used an Almond Joy flavor coffee creamer in yellow cake. I don't think I could eat a lot of them, but for a festive party or holiday they would be fun to make different flavors. I just made some today using strawberry cake mix and cream cheese frosting mixed in, coated in chocolate. Really good, but I'm sending them to school with my daughter tomorrow. She is a Junior in high school and her friends are going wild over them.