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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

Events

**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 ⚓️.

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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 Andi6109 on May 18, 2011 at 11:13pm
i want to know that too...my boyfriend seems to never have money. but he has automatic payments set up trying to pay off his student loans, car insurance, etc...which is why he claims he has no money. but at the same time he does seem to drop a nice chunck every weekend when he goes to the bar...hmmm o boys. i will never understand them
Comment by mommajo on May 18, 2011 at 11:03pm

elizabeth~reminds me of the camo sled I got for my birthday.  Big enough to carry a 1/4 elk!  Didn't know if I should laugh or cry  so LOL

TN  be seeing you soon!!

 

 

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on May 18, 2011 at 10:53pm
Emily when does the Navy start to make them money?  Right now I think my son is just even.  Boy does he know how to spend it as fast as he makes it.  If you ask him it's the car, insurance and phone that takes all his money. However, he keeps talking about this pawn shop where he finds things he likes and can't live without, ex. pool cue.  Yesterday was his girlfriend's birthday.  He bought her a fishing rod.  I think that's kinda cute.  She went fishing for her first time with him down there and she liked it so he bought her her own rod.  I thought that was kind of funny.  She is going to Germany for the whole summer in two weeks when her college semester ends.  I told him a necklace or bracelet would be nice so when she wears it she can think of him.  But, no he buys her a fishing rod......men.  But it's still kinda cute. (She lives in Charleston.)
Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 18, 2011 at 9:49pm
Whoaa!! HOW COOL!!
We have seagulls that hang out at our pool (because its less than a mile from our sanitation plant) if that's any comparison. :P
Comment by Andi6109 on May 18, 2011 at 8:16pm

after reading back 5 pages, I saw the post on "pub crawls." well as soon as my sailor got out of phase one and was allowed to drink again he called me from the dive so excited because they had guinness on draft!! his favorite beer!! (we are both almost 24) when i was there on spring break we drove into downtown and parked the car down by the harbor, then walked all over the historic district. found this really fun bar that brews in house so of course he insisted we stop there. then had dinner somewhere and tried their house brew, then as we were walking to the car it started raining. so we randomly stopped in a "pub" to wait it out and since my stomach was kinda bleh i let him drink more and of course the one pub we duck into had guiness, and i drove back to my hotel. we did stopp at ONE more pub on the way back before as well, ending the night at some restarant/bar near base. He had a great night haha I had a great night just being able to spend time with him. i usually end up being his DD anyway which I am ok with. The only place I remember the name of was king street bar and grill. the food was GREAT! sadly i didnt pay attention to any of the names of the other places or the place that brewed their beer in house. definatly a good place to check out if you get a chance. it was near market street and across from the place with the rooftop bar

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 18, 2011 at 5:30pm

Yes, Aaron did say that Power School was harder than A school. They do 3 subjects at once instead of one, so that may have something to do with it. He did a lot of studying. My favorite thing he ever said was "Now I know why they call these the dark days. You go in before the sun comes up and go home after the sun goes down. You never see the light of day"

He did a lot more studying in Power School. But nothing that would kill him. :P

His roommate worked a LOT harder than him-- Most nights he didn't even get out of the building till 11. It just depends for every person. :)

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on May 18, 2011 at 5:23pm

Cheryl, my son is at home right now for his 10 days leave between A-school and Power School.  When he gets back he will be on t-track for one month and then starting Power School at the end of June...so can't really tell you.  However, I know that Emily's fiancee just completed power school and maybe she can comment.

 

Thanks, Emily.  Yes, my son is doing everything possible to be the best he can be.  He's not satisfied with just getting by and is taking his "job" seriously.  Yes, he called A-school and Power School his job !!!  lol  John is now talking about going boomer so that he won't be away from Lauren for months on end, instead home every 3-4 months.  However, she knows that isn't really his first preference - fast attack subs - where they explore the world and many ports.  We'll see who wins!!  lol

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on May 18, 2011 at 5:15pm
Penny, how cool!! :) The Navy can really take you places or it can just make you money and make you miserable. I truly believe that the experience in the military is what you make out of it. Sounds like your son is going to do great things in the years to come. :)
Comment by Cheryl Mom Nuke ET on May 18, 2011 at 4:41pm
Penny, my son wants me to drive from SC to Baltimore, MD with him right after graduation so he'll have his car while he's home for a week.  That will be an interesting drive, but I'm looking forward to having him all to myself for 9+ hours.  Washington State is definitely too far!  Has your son said that Power School is a lot harder than A school?
Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on May 18, 2011 at 4:37pm

Okay, I'm jealous.  Didn't attend my son's A-school graduation mostly due to distance and the fact that he left right afterwards to fly home to Washington State.  But Cheryl, enjoy it for me as well.  I can tell you this, I surely will be there for Power School. 

 

Emily, by the way, my son was given a beautiful coin for being Honorman and also a wonderful letter from the commander in chief calling him "Number One" !!! 

 
 
 

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