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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: on Friday

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 16, 2010 at 9:51am: Well fortunately for us we have the Thanksgiving day visit so hopefully we can figure it out then. I hope to do the same thing that you did and hang with him while he waits for his plane. How did you know where to go to find him at O'hare and how did you get in?

Comment by Pat L. in IL on November 16, 2010 at 7:39am: Julsburd, Really, Wheaton???? We live in Carol Stream. Well, that makes us ex-neighbors!! haha

Comment by Binker & Bro: 2X Nuke Mom on November 16, 2010 at 12:43am: Alex flew out of OHare but did not know that would be the airport until the day before. And while he had to be there at 2 am, his flight wasnt scheduled to leave until 4 in the afternoon. They had kids leaving out on 6 or 7 different flights heading for GC that day.

Comment by CA mom 101 on November 16, 2010 at 12:42am: Hi- my son just pir'd last fri, 11/12. He was grad n go, and left from o'hare. Wish I knew in advance... I would have stayed there too. Although we were sad to see him whisked away so soon, but we all had one amazing day together walking around downtown Chicago and listening to his bc stories, and just seeing our son again. Just a magical day together. Don't dwell on the short time, but enjoy every blessed minute you have together. Yes, it is fast, just make it a day of treasured memories. Oh, and don't forget, you get to phone and text again after they arrive at gc!!!

Comment by Julsburd on November 16, 2010 at 12:26am: thanks gals. Pat, I used to live in Wheaton... I was just trying to figure out the logistics... If there was a chance it was Midway I wasn't going to plan much. if there's a good chance it was O'Hare then we'll stay at the O'hare Hilton since my husband is a Hilton traveler and we can use his points... This is crazy planning for one day... 24 hours! But we'll do it that's for sure. Maybe we'll stay up near the base Thursday and then move over to O'Hare after we drop him off at the base that evening. Then we will at least be closer to Midway if that's what happens. He wants us to bring his phone, laptop and ipod to the airport so he can take it with him.

Comment by Pat L. in IL on November 16, 2010 at 12:13am: Julsburd, DO NOT make a reservation for a hotel near Midway. We live in the Chicago area, trust me, that is not an area you want to be!

Comment by Pat L. in IL on November 16, 2010 at 12:08am: Julsburd, Our son flew out of Ohare. Usually they get their final travel orders the Weds. before PIR. If you go to the airport, you can get a special security pass and go to the gate with him.

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on November 16, 2010 at 12:04am: maybe you could make reservations at 2 hotels -- one by each airport and then cancel one after you find out what airport he's flying out of.

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on November 15, 2010 at 11:41pm: Oh yes, and I don't think he really knew until right before. It's been six months though so that memory is hazy.

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on November 15, 2010 at 11:40pm: My son flew out of Midway. There is a train right before the airport and I remember sitting on the other side of the gate very impatient since I had seen so little of him.