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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 ⚓️.

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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

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

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Comment by Dana (David's Mom) on April 13, 2011 at 11:17pm: Yeah, Mark I was aware of this, they are due to move to Everett in Dec of this year, but thanks for the info incase I didn't already know. I'm sort of an information geek and have already read as much as I could and have much more to research and learn. Kids are all out on there own and I don't watch much TV. His orders were to report to Everett but I haven't had much time to talk to him. Will have plenty of time while we drive to west coast from NY at end of month. We may drive to Seattle and look around sometime during his 30 or so days at home until he has to report in early June.

He wanted duty on the John Stennis but happy with what he got. I'm happy it's west coast.

Comment by SonandSea on April 13, 2011 at 10:40pm: Thanks Emily~ That sounds a LOT better than 20% ! I appreciate that. That is not so stunningly awful! :)

Comment by Mark on April 13, 2011 at 10:23pm: Good to hear your son got the duty he wanted, Dana. Right now, the Nimitz is in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA until late this year or early next year. It's undergoing some extensive work there, before it goes up to Everett to replace the Abraham Lincoln, which is due for refueling on the east coast next year. Just letting you know that it will be a little while before he's in Everett.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on April 13, 2011 at 10:19pm: Oops. That's supposed to say fail rate... not rail rate. Time for me to go to bed...

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on April 13, 2011 at 10:08pm: seadreamstudio- I asked our recruiter about the rail rate about a month ago... He said about 60% of Nukes make it through the entire pipeline. Not great, not horrible. After all, some colleges have graduation rates (rate of students that graduate in less than 5 years) less than that...

Comment by amanda on April 13, 2011 at 9:43pm: Mary- I hear ya about the dogs! Our big dogs have pretty much made the front yard a mud pit and living in rainy ol' Washington makes it worse! They've flinged mud on the ceiling!

Comment by nvmomma on April 13, 2011 at 9:14pm: So glad your sailor got his first choice, Dana. I am hoping the same for my son when the time comes, he is definitely a west coast boy. His first choice will probably be San Diego, but Everett would be quite acceptable too.

Comment by Dana (David's Mom) on April 13, 2011 at 8:56pm: Spring cleaning, when my husband hires someone. My new official 'Nuke" has orders to the USS Ninitz in Everett, WA. Am flying out to NY for his graduation April 29th then driving with him to California with all his 'stuff' and get him for 30 days which includes his 24th birthday and Mother's Day. Everett is 650 miles and 12 hours away so I might get to visit or get a visit from him, Yeah, better than being 3000 miles away or in Japan. He's happy as was his first choice of areas to be and I'm very happy.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on April 13, 2011 at 5:58pm: RE: spring cleaning ... back when I was a single lass, I had an older and wiser friend who counseled me "Don't spring clean, MOVE." This was her motto for ovens, shower stalls, garages .. of course, she'd give this kind of advice with a glass of wine in her hand! And move she did, frequently, from apartment to apartment. I think of her often when I find feathers (from a parakeet that croaked years ago) or Christmas tree needles (embedded in the baseboards in July) ... all you need to know about my domestic skills is on the writing above my stove: "Dinner's ready when the smoke alarm goes off."

Comment by SonandSea on April 13, 2011 at 5:47pm: Sounds more reasonable. I have great confidence in my son, but I would not want him in any sort of program that had an 80% failure rate. He's only human...