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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 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 ⚓️.

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Latest Activity: 37 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 Sharon ~ K's Mom on November 29, 2010 at 9:27pm: Well, I am from Michigan and for the past 30 something years, it has always been called "soda." My ex-husband was in the Army stationed at Fort Ord, CA and I started it there and brought it home and have never used the word, "pop." People wonder what I am talking about unless I say "Coke" then they know. I was at a wedding reception once and I went to the bar and asked what kind of "soda" did they have and the guy looked at me if I were nuts! I laughed and asked for a "Coke" and he gave it to me. I had to explain what I meant and then he too laughed. But, it will always be "Soda" for me.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 29, 2010 at 8:53pm: Wow, I'm with you Elizabeth. don't want to pay extra for a gift card.
In fact, I have a bunch of web sites where i go and buy discounted gift cards. Already got him a couple Best Buy cards at a 5% discount. Not a lot on that one but it all adds up. I even got Starbuck's the other day for 9% discount. I get AMC movie theater cards for 14%-20% discounts, and many more.
The Subway cards are always sold out when i check on them though.
Does anyone know of any other restaurants that are faily close to base that we could get discounts for?

Comment by Michimom (MM Nuke Mom) on November 29, 2010 at 8:52pm: Hey, we call it pop here in Michigan!

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on November 29, 2010 at 8:49pm: Hi all, Wow, they charge $4.95 for a gift card at the Nex! I buy Subway gift cards at work. (I Direct a Preschool/Afterschool) We sell the cards as a fundraiser. The school gets 3% profit from Subway cards. If any of you have contact with a non-profit; school, church etc. your gift card purchases could actually make money not cost money. I sound like I'm preaching right now. I'm not, I'm just so cheap. Everytime I go to send him something I think about the postage etc. and then I end up just wanting to send him a Subway card. I have made cookies and so has my Mom and mailed them to him. The logistics of paying for Priority Mail and then seeing it takes over two weeks for him to actually get it is getting pretty frustrating. Then he comments about how he is cutting out all the sweets and eating fish and vegetables and protein drinks. I'm sure it's just a phase but it's just so typical that it would happen right after we mail him treats!!! One thing I know for sure is he is eating at SUBWAY!!

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 29, 2010 at 8:37pm: I grew up in Southern California, but my parents were from Ohio and Nebraska. We always said Pop. Then we moved to Oregon when I was 10 and somehow pop became soda and now that's what I call it.
Remember when we used to call those cheap, little rubber flip flops "thongs?"
At least we did when i was a kid. My daughter about died when i called them thongs one day. thought I was talking about those rubber bands they call underwear. LOL.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on November 29, 2010 at 8:23pm: I'm from Iowa and we say "pop" -- they say "pop" in MN also. But my DH kept talking about rubber binders and I had no idea what that was (rubber band).

Comment by Colleen in PA on November 29, 2010 at 8:19pm: Hey aaronsgirl11, sombody besides me says "pop"! It is refreshing to hear that instead of soda. Do you say gumbands instead of rubberbands? I am from W. PA and live in S. Cental Pa now and I know you are in OH so I guess we speak the same language! I heard a lot of different ways of saying things when my husband was in the Navy.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on November 29, 2010 at 7:17pm: fyi - there are a bunch of coupons on ebay for Subway -- b1 g1 free sandwiches, etc.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 29, 2010 at 7:15pm: Thanks for the link Nicole. That will serve a lot of us I bet.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on November 29, 2010 at 7:03pm: Nicole, thanks for the link.
aaronsgirl, I have a Walmart crock pot, works great other than the lid rocks when there's steam on "high" setting. Cleans up easy. Can cook a pot roast in it, there's lots of room.
Kat, I have to sneak my goodie boxes to the post office, because my husband says "don't be sending him money and food, he's making a bigger paycheck than we are!" Oh, such drama. I'm like you, I slip in a $20 each week so he can go to Subway. I'd be doing the same thing if he had gone to college instead, I collect stuff (newspaper clippings, cartoons) for the weekly box, then add a magazine or two (National Geographic, I tell him to leave it in the lounge for the other guys when he's done). He's 18 but he's still my baby boy!