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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

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 18 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

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Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on February 2, 2011 at 11:28pm: Kat, you can have some of our snow (and ice, and sleet, too) ... we've got more than enough to spare here in PA north of Philadelphia. It's times like this that I really miss our son, he was Chief Shoveler (aka "My Slave") and now I only have my husband to boss around. Gotta say, HE'S threatening to enlist. Especially since he hears that Navy chow is the best in the military (our power was out all day so we had to eat sandwiches, so he's cranky) :)

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on February 2, 2011 at 11:11pm: So it was only a high of 47 here in Phoenix today, with wind. I know that is nothing compared to a lot of you, but to us, WOW, it was very cold today.

I was actually wishing for snow flurries but that doesn't happen very often at all. We did have a little snow right after Christmas, but just a few minutes worth.

Will be back up in the 60's by the weekend they say.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on February 2, 2011 at 11:01pm: My son's girlfriend tipped me off today that he went on a field trip (sounds like kindergarten,doesn't it?) and toured both a carrier and a sub. I texted him -- which did you like best -- and he said, sub was WAY cooler, awesome. Can't wait for him to call this weekend and tell us all about it (his girlfriend always gets the lowdown first, sigh, but we love her so it's OK). We've also heard that sub food is very very good. For me, it would have to be lobster, baked potatoes, and ice cream sundaes every night to make it worthwhile!! He's wanted sub duty all along, and I suspect that it's because he's an only child and maybe subconsciously wants a brother (or 2 or 20 or 200 or so!). I think today was a nice break, with comps coming up the day after Super Bowl and A-school grad set for next Friday. All you 1104A moms, we're in the home stretch of phase one of nuke school!

Comment by Mark on February 2, 2011 at 10:43pm: It would be a mistake to read too much into reports that the last graduating prototype class didn't send anyone to a sub. The respective manning needs for nukes in the submarine and carrier communities can vary quite a bit from one two month period to the next, based on when nukes are getting out of the Navy, or transferring to shore duty, and also manning up a ship or boat in new construction. In fact, it could well be that the USS Gerald Ford, a carrier under construction needed a bunch of nukes when the last proto class graduated. It takes upwards of a couple hundred nukes to staff an aircraft carrier - a submarine crew normally has 25-30 enlisted nukes. I would actually suspect that the following prototype class will send more than the average number to subs, if none went in the last class.

Comment by carols_kitchen on February 2, 2011 at 10:24pm: Denise--could both of our boys be attached to the W. VA?

TXLady: son also said only one of the three cooks really knew how to cook. Ha ha!

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on February 2, 2011 at 9:29pm: Jeanne, that is just too funny! Yea I guess it would, maybe there is a way where it won't, cause I hear a lot of people making things out of dog and cat hair and heck other fur as well.

Comment by Dodie on February 2, 2011 at 8:32pm: Mary, I take it that your son is enjoying the weather in Charleston. I guess I could go cruising in my shorts if I didn't want to suffer from hypothermia...brrr:)

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on February 2, 2011 at 8:24pm: Denise, yea my son wants to go subs, and one of the reasons is the food, my son loves to eat, you can't tell it thou, he can put away more food then he should be able too with his 6'4" 141 lbs frame, he is skin and bones. I wonder how much weight he will put on in BC

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on February 2, 2011 at 7:25pm: Yes, all the mail goes to 101 NNPTC Circle, Goose Creek, SC 29445. The only difference is the "class" and your sailor's name and rate. It gets sorted out and distributed... If you send a package, he has to go get it from the mail room itself, though. Oh, and there are individual mail boxes available for purchase. Something like 10 bucks a month. Supposedly it's more reliable.

No free wi-fi that I found when I was down there... There is a place they can go... it's like the rec center... where they can access computers/internet. Not sure if it's wi-fi though. Everyone who wants internet access in their room has to go through Comcast... :/ I think they get majorly ripped off. And the internet connection is generally slow because of all the guys using the same connect... at the same time. But hey, it works.

Comment by Dodie on February 2, 2011 at 7:25pm: Penny, There is a lot a good info in the discussions area above about what to expect during the nuke pipeline.