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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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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: 2695
Latest Activity: 41 minutes 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 Julsburd on November 30, 2010 at 10:41pm: Yea Aaronsgirl... but you're still young and you don't have to share his time with the game because you guys are apart at the moment... Wait till you're visiting for a well deserved weekend and he sits in front of the new game all the time. :)

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on November 30, 2010 at 10:25pm: Well, moms. I just ordered Aaron's Christmas present. A copy of the new WoW extension pack that comes out on December 7th. It's all set up for him to go pick it up next week. At this point, I think I'm a little crazy. I'm feeding his WoW obsession!! :/

Comment by Julsburd on November 30, 2010 at 9:29pm: Its crazy how similar your guys seem to be to my son. I could have written the same words as Penny and Mary did to describe their sons. I am hoping that my guy finds the same motivation and rewards that yours have at A school. He has PIR in 2 days and I am getting really excited to see him and hug him... then he's off, Grad and Go to GC. My husband saw him at Thanksgiving and said he seemed really happy and content with his decision to join the Navy. That's all I want for him, to find a purpose in life and go after it. Thanks to everyone for their great advice and encouragement over the past 8 weeks of BC!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on November 30, 2010 at 9:02pm: Its so nice to have you back, Casey. :)
...And its looking good for him because he's kicking Prototype's butt!!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on November 30, 2010 at 8:42pm: Actually, MMs will probably be at least the 18 months if not longer. Since there's so many of them, there's quite the back up for Prototype.. So even though they're A school is shorter, they're schooling will take just as long (if not longer).

Comment by Michimom (MM Nuke Mom) on November 30, 2010 at 8:28pm: Maybeth, when I read that your son is under the sea somewhere, all I could think of was the song Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid: "Darling, it's better, down where it's wetter . . . " It fits, but . . . it doesn't. LOL

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 30, 2010 at 7:10pm: There are just so many variables in all of this. Good to get all this info. and to expect the unexpected.
I know at one point my son was talking about some other type of school too, so who knows where it all will go. Just wait and see for now.

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on November 30, 2010 at 7:07pm: My MM graduated A school 10/1 and is still on T Track, should class up in January. With holidays, stand down, etc, it is almost impossible to guess when they'll class up or graduate from each phase of schooling. But, if classes start mid January, he should graduate in July. Then of course, the "grad hold" for prototype and by then it's anybody's guess how long that would be, weeks or months? So, having classed up in June to A school, it will be at least 18 months to complete Nuke classes and he's an MM.

I just talk to him as often as he's available (he's married) and look forward to the times that I am able to see him. He was home for several days after A school grad and will be home 12/18 for 8 days (since he's T Track, he has to report back on 12/27, doesn't get the full stand down time.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 30, 2010 at 6:54pm: Lisa, i think the recruiters told us 18 months just in case they did the ET or EM. Yours and mine are MM so it's about 3 months shorter over all.
I was a bit surprsied when he told me that as I was fully expecting the 18 months. i guess when they had that briefing type thing during boot camp, they explained more about each job and the responsibilities, which is how they decided which area they wanted to go into.

Comment by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on November 30, 2010 at 6:18pm: Thanks again for all of your response - yes, I know that every single kid "chosen" for Nuke School is the elite of the elite - the best of the best. My son also wasn't out doing the drinking and smoking thing and opted instead for staying at home and playing on his computer or watching videos or sitcoms. He's a computer geek in so many ways but yet has a personality that just gets along well with everybody. He's a mentor at heart and has tutored many kids coming in behind him into the recruiting station. One day he came home and announced that they made him Chief Recruit Petty Officer. He was pretty proud but without arrogance.

I'm with Marybeth - everywhere you look you just don't really get the same answer with regard to school schedules. But so far I have found so many other women on this site that aren't hesitate to let everybody know what they have learned and it has been so helpful. I'm starting to find myself less emotional as well.

Thanks again!