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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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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 March 14, 2011 at 3:47am: If you are annoyed by gzillion email notifications (to your regular email address) whenever someone comments in any of your groups (or blogs or forum discussions that you have started) - simply click "Stop Following" located just underneath the "Add Comment" box.

You can also set you email notification parameters. Go to Settings (upper right), then Email (upper left), I generally keep email notifications ONLY for messages from friends, an invitation to an event, friend request. When I go on vacation and don't want any notifications at all, I click "Stop All Notifications"

Just remember to check your groups and reset you email notifications. I simply make it a habit, at least once a day, to check my groups (click on MY GROUPS), my personal page and my inbox - doesn't take that long unless you are responding.

Comment by Binker & Bro: 2X Nuke Mom on March 14, 2011 at 3:08am: and look! Here's my Binky's sailor baby picture!

Comment by Binker & Bro: 2X Nuke Mom on March 14, 2011 at 3:06am: Hey Ladies!

Just got done reading/skimming through 87 pages of posts. Now I have to go erase them from my inbox! It has been one heck of a new year here in la la land! Between the first 6 weeks of the semester lasting 2 1/2 months and wondering whether school might be cancelled because it was supposed to rain and someone might get wet to worrying about medical issues and being reaccepted and then rejected and then reaccepted to the federal HAFA program so I can get rid of this albatross house and finally move to NY before Binker gets there (per his maybe request) for prototype, things have never stopped.

So, news all around. My goodness! Emily! I missed your birthday! Happy late one sweetie! When you get that paper written, send it to me and I will edit it for you and not even treat you like one of my students! Dor! Lackland is a wonderful place! NOT! Two trips through that place and its still a nightmare in my mind, but Jeff thinks of it as the place we got engaged. When its time to go, look into staying at the Emily Morgan. Its a wonderful old hotel right across the street from the Alamo, which you will never believe how small such a place could be. Check out this link: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/947818-american-peddlers The American Peddlers were a music group that ran the AF base circut from the early 70s to the late 80s and they told the tale of being in the AF. My brothers and I all agreed that "Yesterday I was a Rainbow" had to be one of the saddest songs ever heard as they told how it felt to be taken from the world of color and turned into an airman in green. Until you get your first issue, AF people call the newbies "rainbows" because of all the colors. I dont know if the traditions still hold but just looking this up for you took me on a trip down memory lane. I got to see them perform while I was at Lackland during my first trip through on the enlisted side and part of me still wants to cry! Welcome to my Air Force Family! San Antonio becomes your birthplace even years later!

USAA still cannot be beat and I'm glad to see so many of you finding it out. They have never done us wrong in the almost 25 years we have carried their insurance. Good grief, how can that be when I am only 30?

So, news in my world? Binker has decided he is getting married. I thought for sure my only issue was the affair he was having with his computer, but not so. A school introduced him to his intellectual equal and I knew long before he did that she was the one I would lose him to. He just admired her dedication and dilligence so much. They have at least decided to wait until after finishing power school instead of seeing the justice of the peace next weekend. They splurged and spent 60 bucks on two very fashionable walmart silver bands. Spring break cant get here soon enough so I can get down there and make sure the boy has his wits about him. and I guess the girl too since its starting to look like I'm going to need another blue star for my window since I will have two nukes to worry about. And you think you have it rough!

It's 3 in the morning and I'm starting to feel tired now and 6 will be here real early. It's raining. What's new. I'm sure we will have a delay to the start of school or we will have a flood day. I will be glad when this school year is over!

Hugs to you all. At the rate I'm going, I'll talk to you again in May.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on March 13, 2011 at 11:03pm: Alright. Who watched Coming Home tonight? That little girl's reunion with her father... Oh my. That was a tear jerker!

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on March 13, 2011 at 8:24pm: Diana, yes, maybe April, but we don't know for sure, that's still a month and a half away, plus 6 months in power school, equals almost 8 months.

Good luck on his comps tomorrow. I'm sure he will do well.

Comment by Diana AZ NavyMom on March 13, 2011 at 8:19pm: Kat - Why is it going to be 8 months? I thought Power School was 6 months. Isn't he starting in April? That is when my son said he was supposed to start. So glad you had a good visit with your son. I am so looking forward to seeing my son next Saturday. Comps are tomorrow and graduation on Friday.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on March 13, 2011 at 7:46pm: If Government Shuts Down...

Here's more specific information... I told Aaron he could end up workin at the commissary. :)

Comment by Sherri_M on March 13, 2011 at 7:46pm: Yes, Emily, that would suck big time! Let's hope and pray the gov't gets this resolved! Thanks for the information, keeps me up to date!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on March 13, 2011 at 7:43pm: Troops May Miss Paychecks

Well, this would suck...

Comment by Sherri_M on March 13, 2011 at 7:12pm: Hey ladies....

@swim...prayers to you, we're here for you and I know you'll make it through basic!

@Jennifer, thanks for the information...I couldn't imagine that anyone that was still in school would be going over there....I can see helping with cleanup, but not for the nuclear part...my hubby had said same thing too--he was cryogenic engineer in Navy-was supposed to go Nuke, but during the physical they found out he was color blind--so he couldn't do the whole Nuke thing!

Prayers to those of you who have sons/daughters/BF's/Gf's/etc in Japan or Hawaii..or any of the places affected! Keep us informed on your family!