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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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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

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Latest Activity: 2 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

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 nvmomma on December 9, 2010 at 12:27am: Mine just asked me if I would ship him his bike. Dude! ;)

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on December 8, 2010 at 11:28pm: Yeah that's true. :)
Aaron wouldn't really use a Netflix... I don't wanna say too much and get him in trouble. We'll just leave it at that. :)

I do think Netflix is a great idea, though. :)

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on December 8, 2010 at 11:19pm: Aaron's girl- the thing with Netflix is that you don't have to take out a movie, you can watch a lot of them online, movies and tv shows. It's nice that he doesn't have to worry about getting them delivered and then getting them back.
I guess there are games you can subscribe to online too.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on December 8, 2010 at 11:15pm: If you moms think your boys would like a netflix account, check out Gamefly.com
There's a way to buy a 3,6, 9?, or 12 month subscription gift certificate. You can buy it so he can have one game out a month or two. Works the exact same way as Netflix but its for video games. :)
I think I'm going that route for Aaron's birthday since I bought him the new WoW as an early Christmas present. :)

Comment by Diana AZ NavyMom on December 8, 2010 at 10:57pm: My son is planning on bringing his empty seabag home with him for Christmas. I told him what he doesn't take will get taken to GoodWill. Everything is washed, folded or hanging, and waiting for his inspection. I know he will probably take many of the shirts, but all the pants are going to be way too big. I am fairly certain we will still end up storing the bowling ball and golf clubs as well as the suitcases he doesn't want to have.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on December 8, 2010 at 9:59pm: CA Mom- Does he have a watch? Also those mini camcorders are great.
My son uses my netflix account too. he doesn't have T.V., which is a good thing, so he catches up on some of his shows through netflix. It's only around $10 a month.

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on December 8, 2010 at 6:26pm: I find it amazing how they can go through 8-9 weeks at boot camp and come out and one of the first things they pick back up is the cigarettes !!! CRAZY, I tell ya. They finally kicked the habit physically, but mentally I guess they are still a smoker.

Good for you Aaronsgirl - and good for Aaron that he finally did kick the habit.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on December 8, 2010 at 6:18pm: hahaha. Dor, you just made my night with the bowling ball. :)
I think the coffee cup is a great idea to whoever mentioned that. They're not allowed to have their own coffee machine in their room, but each classroom has their own coffee machine. Supposedly Aaron's power school class has a frapp. machine, too. Although no one knows how to use it. :)
And you may not think your son was a coffee drinker before he left, but he probably is now!!
Aaron lived on coffee and cigarettes his first few weeks of A school. I finally nagged enough to get him to kick the cigarette habit... I think once I told him when we get married he's not smoking in or around my house or kids, he finally decided it wasn't worth getting hooked. :)

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on December 8, 2010 at 6:09pm: Carol, That's so funny. I did the same thing with my son's clothes. My daughter took her i-phone and kept photographing them a couple at a time and he would say either both or left one, right one. He is soooo into his clothes we knew it meant a lot to him. We also knew he bought some there. We knew after boot camp he couldn't wait to hit the shops in a new city.

Comment by carols_kitchen on December 8, 2010 at 6:00pm: Dor-- I lined up my sailor's favorite shirts on the shower rod, took a picture of them and emailed it to him. Then he told me which ones to leave behind and which ones to pack up for him. Just a thought. He too lost weight in the waist, and had to buy new civie pants.