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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 ⚓️.

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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

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USPS "If it fits, it ships" - link to order boxes: USPS If it fits, it ships

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Comment by Julsburd on November 23, 2010 at 5:30pm: Mn Linda you are awesome!! As soon as I read your post I went into Jeff's room and viola- his phone was in his shoe. I never would have thought to look for it there. thank you thank you thank you!

Comment by Josie(PIR11-5)ET_A_SCHOOL_1107 on November 23, 2010 at 4:57pm: Hello!

Skype, my sailor wanted us to show him the cats, especially, our one cat is sick, and may not be with us for long.

One of my step girls lives out of the country and we were able to speak all together. You have to pay extra, so we will do this' but some how we lost his picture but we were able to hear each other by patching on on the phone.

Skype allowed us to see the sailor,s new digs. He said it was good to skype with cousins, aunts/uncles, friends.

Let me caution you we had to try a few times before we got it all worked out on everyone' s end. So schedule a time just to work out the bugs. We kept face book chat going to communicate when we were having audio problems.

Another thing we discovered when cell reception not working from the dorm, texting seems to work.

Also sailor wants breakfast bars, so he doesn't have to go to chow hall, before class. I am going to send him a mug to make instant coffee etc before class.

Any thing else you have heard for morning snacks before class???

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on November 23, 2010 at 4:18pm: I bought 2 Logitech webcams which comes with built-in speaker (one for me and one for my grandson's house) -- my son has a Mac and it has a built-in camera, but he needed headphones since it didn't have a speaker. I bought them online for about $40 each I think. they are small ones for a laptop.

then you just download Skype to your pc (it's free) and then it's ready to go. oh you do need a free usb port to plug in the webcam.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 23, 2010 at 4:11pm: Julsburd, if you have access to his cell phone account, call them to see if there has been any activity on the account. Also, you can check into suspending his phone while he is in bootcamp so that you don't have to pay during that time. We didn't find that out until it was too late.

Comment by Lisa (MMNuke Mom) on November 23, 2010 at 4:00pm: foaling-lady, we downloaded Skype from their website, and it is free. You can use it as a chat (instant message), and you can do video/voice 'conferencing', but you will need a camera/microphone to do that. You can also use it as a phone, but you have to pre-buy minutes for that, and they will expire eventually. We have the camera/microphone, and it works really well. My son used it to talk (and see) his friend when she was stationed in Seoul, and I've used it to chat and video with my aunt in Mexico. Yes, you do need the internet. Alot of the newer laptops come with the camera and microphone built in, so hopefully your son's is.
Oh, and I'm still figuring out my GPS, and I've had it for 2 years - we don't always get along very well (:
Hope this helps!

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on November 23, 2010 at 3:46pm: Can anybody walk me thru Skype? What do I need, where do I get it, what exactly IS it? Is it a service I subscribe to? I have Comcast internet and cable, and a desktop PC (that's also hooked to the cable so it's a TV too). Will this work? And what does my son need to have on his end? He has a Blackberry Bold phone and a laptop PC but the laptop isn't really usable in his room since he doesn't have internet yet .. he will when he gets an apartment once he's out of A school. Talk simple to me, ladies ... I just figured out how to use my new GPS and felt like that was the biggest technological accomplishment of my life!

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on November 23, 2010 at 2:01pm: Julsburd, look inside his shoes for his cell phone - some moms found them there and sometimes the battery was in one shoe and the phone in the other. or check the pockets of his jeans. if he put it in the box, it should be there and he isn't supposed to keep it with him.

Comment by Lisa (MMNuke Mom) on November 23, 2010 at 2:00pm: PollyAnna - so sorry to hear about your wreck!! Hope you get to feeling better soon!

Comment by Lisa (MMNuke Mom) on November 23, 2010 at 1:58pm: Mary, your comment on the Xbox made me laugh - sounds just like our house too!
Kat, when I talked to my son Sunday, he said him and a few buddies were probably going to a salor's home - I forgot the name tho, was going to see if they were on here, and say Thanks! Will have to ask him again, and write it down this time.

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on November 23, 2010 at 1:53pm: Diana, glad your son got in with a host family for Thanksgiving. My son didn't say yesterday whether he got one or not. Maybe today he'll know. He did mention to his sister, when he called on Sunday for her 16th birthday, that he did put his name in so I'm hoping he does. I just think it would be a really neat experience for him.
Whatever he does I'm sure he'll have a nice day. Knowing him he'll go out shopping or people watching.