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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: on Monday

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 Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on February 1, 2011 at 4:45pm: Linda, you need a miter saw for the quarter round for edging at the corners - makes it look real pretty then. Otherwise, not so pretty!

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on February 1, 2011 at 3:45pm: I'm not good at doing stuff around the house, but I try. My DH won't even try. if anything does get done around here, it's me that does it. Sometimes I'll start doing something and then find that I physically can't do it and will be able to convince him to help me with just the part that I can't do.

My latest project is I ripped out the carpeting in our bedroom and installed laminate flooring - all by myself. the quarter-round edging is what's taking the most time - going around doors is a pain. there's probably a trick to it and I don't know it. :-) I've been considering tackling the carpet in the living room and dining room and installing real hardwood flooring, but haven't found the money to do it yet.

Comment by BunkerQB on February 1, 2011 at 2:52pm: Jeanne - my soul mate! I could spend hours at Home Depot or Lowe's. I love going to home improvement shows and decorator showcases. I watch HDTV all the time. There isn't a fixer upper that I haven't wanted to buy. You and I could be a dangerous combo. It's too bad you're in MI and I'm in CA. Otherwise, we could buy a fixer upper apartment building, get it all jazzed up and rent the units to Navy people only. If my husband and I retire and go to San Diego, will you and yours join us? The prices around Chula Vista area in SD are really really low!

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on February 1, 2011 at 2:29pm: BQB I love it too cute! He does not want a Barbie Doll, they are too much work.

Up 35/281 in more Central Texas it is currently 25 near Fort Hood.

Comment by BunkerQB on February 1, 2011 at 2:18pm: @Jeanne & Marybeth. Here is the clincher. He declared that he is going to make so much money, his wife will not have to work. He wants a "traditional stay-at-home" (frivolous trophy) wife with red nails, coiffed hair, "housewives of Orange County" body but she has to be a great money manager and bookkeeper (Excel or Quicken) and detail person (property manager, household manager). I have always worked and have always made good money. Nothing about me is frivolous. This is going to be very interesting!

Comment by texasmom Prototype on February 1, 2011 at 1:48pm: I'm in Austin, TX and yesterday it was 75 and this morning it is 28. Quite a change. I think it is supposed to be in the teens tonight. Yikes! We aren't prepared for this stuff but will toughen us up for PIR next week.

Comment by BunkerQB on February 1, 2011 at 1:32pm: Kat, your 16 year old has $7000 saved! That is serious qualification for future DIL. My 22 year old is available. Let's stay in touch. In 8 years, they'll be perfect for each other. He is currently studying petroleum engineering in OK. Excellent golfer. Played high level soccer. Plays the guitar and saxophone. Very good at chess too. 5'11" 152 lbs. wiry strong. Sweetie-pie future MIL.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on February 1, 2011 at 10:55am: Lackland. :)

Dor- Try to look at these pictures. If the privacy setting won't allow you, then I'll download some and you can see some from Katilin's ex's graduation. :)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=57549&id=1577949107

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on February 1, 2011 at 10:35am: Sherry I live near Fort Hood, deep in the heart of TEXAS.

Kat great saver you should be proud. My son had about 4K is savings I thought that was a good job, but we didn't allow him to get a PT job before he left for the Navy, so it was savings from gifts and odd jobs, so I think that was great.

arrons I love Sebring's

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on February 1, 2011 at 10:13am: I'm a very lucky girl in the car department...

I talked to my parents about getting me one for months before I even got my license. Told them I would go half way with them, but nothing.... When my brother (Navy, 10 years older than me (yes, i am an "oops" child) and my godfather) came home on leave a few weeks after I got my license, he took me car shopping. Told me he was thinking about buying me a car because he knew I needed one to get to school, work, and college classes. He said he knew how stubborn dad could be with this, and he wanted me to have a reliable car that could potentially last me through college. He went out with a friend one day and I got a phone call from him telling me to come to Celina, but I needed an extra driver with me. I don't think I've ever been that excited in my entire life. :)

He bought me a 2001 silver Chrysler Sebring. It's a wonderful little car... if only it did better on the snow and ice! haha. It is still his car... So when he comes home on leave, I have to share it with him. At least that's only a maximum of a month out of every year. :)