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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).

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**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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Comment by Anti M on April 17, 2010 at 8:53am: Are nukes the butt of jokes??? LOL, yes! Actually, every rate takes a turn being picked on. It is Naval tradition. The nukes pick back once they learn the lingo, no worries. Mostly harmless, although some of the language gets ... salty. Yes, you'll hear "glow worm" and "glow on the dark". But I was a twidget and my friend was a snipe. Even my dad, who is 86, uses some of the same slang to this day. Every base has a nickname too, and every type of ship, even the systems have nicknames. They aren't all flattering, but they are amazingly resistant to change.

Even worse once they're submariners. Now there's some joking I can't share here. But a mild one: What does a submariner call a Naval ship? A target.

Submarines are "boats", not ships, btw, they get fussy about that, LOL.

Comment by Dana (David's Mom) on April 16, 2010 at 11:06pm: Chris's Mom,
My son was also in a mixed ET/EM class. When it came time for them to split his class of EM's were so small that they held up for a week for the next class behind them to catch up and then they continued (it did change his class number for mailing purposes). The class of ET's when on without them. It put his grad date a week later, but we hadn't yet booked a place to stay for graduation so no problem. We actually drove his car out to him from northern California for his A school graduation then flew home. He got to meet a whole bunch of new guys and made a few more friends. They are now all in Power school together.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on April 16, 2010 at 9:26pm: I hear you Sharon. When my husband and I met, he was a midshipman at the Navy Academy. I was a long haired hippie who had authority issues. Everyone just shook their heads and suggested he might want therapy. They actually started a pool to pick that date when we broke up. That was 35 years ago. The Navy learned to deal with me and I learned to ignore the Navy.

Comment by Sharon ~ K's Mom on April 16, 2010 at 8:44pm: These stories made me laugh, so thanks so much!! Sure needed it today!! When my husband and I were engaged and picking a date we ran into problems with his mom not liking any day in October. Everyone in the family seemed to get married then and they were getting divoreced. So, we married on 30 April and then his side were talking that I was pregnant and that is why we moved it up six months. Then at our wedding reception people were actually talking that we wouldn't last a year. Well, to really laugh..................those that said negative comments are all divorced today and we will be married for 22 years!!!! Who got the last laugh?????

Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on April 16, 2010 at 7:33pm: Mary, so glad you clarified the bars on the ceiling:)

Comment by Anti M on April 16, 2010 at 1:12pm: Sheesh, sorry! I read that and didn't process it.... d'oh.

I've been talking to a lot of extremely young ladies with BFs in boot camp and A school, so I was a bit on autopilot. I imagine they could do quite the bash! Job offer? Cool, so hard to find decent careers these days. That is a field which provides opportunity as she transfers with him I would think.

LOL, my hubby to be was visiting me in Utah, when we were both on leave. We knew we wanted to marry, but not when. My dad was dead set against a second marriage for me, and I was 30! Hubby gave me a diamond pendant instead of a ring as he didn't know my size or preferences. Dad saw it and said, "Well, we will be stopping in Vegas on the way to see your brothers..." and so Vegas it was. Our date was set by drive time from Utah! We eloped and dad drove. Hubby was a bad man though, and called his mom from Arizona to tell her he'd gotten married. He used to date a gal from AZ, his mom thought he'd gone and married her! I didn't meet my MIL for two years, and she called me by the wrong name for ages. LOL, and sigh....

Comment by Anti M on April 16, 2010 at 12:36pm: Probably scare the pants off her, Jeanne! Two other factors: time is money for married couples in the Navy. I'm assuming she's set for now or she'd be in more of a hurry for that health care and such. Second: if she wants to go to his first duty station, and I'm more familiar with a regular A school than prototype so I don't know the timeline, she MUST be on his orders before they are cut. In A regular A school that has to be around four weeks before the orders start coming out. Nukes are special cases when it comes to orders, but it can get sticky when the new command is expecting a single sailor, not a married one. No one gets in trouble, but the new COC may not like readjusting to getting a new dependent settled.

Anyone with experience on nukes, spouses and orders out of prototype?

Comment by Anti M on April 16, 2010 at 9:54am: Jeanne, I was chuckling at the not wanting to be apart thing.... I surely get that. I'm not getting the thinking though... being apart is an integral part of the Navy spouse experience. May as well jump in with both feet! Means more honeymoons, because every time they reunite it is a wonderful thing. Ah well, she'll be ready when she is ready.

When I married, we were both active duty, he was already stationed in Sasebo, and I had orders in hand for Yokosuka. We saw each other 28 days in two years. She has an advantage as a civilian, the Navy won't be sending her in the opposite direction!

Comment by carols_kitchen on April 15, 2010 at 10:23pm: Wow, Jeanne, you have it a lot harder than we did for our sailor's wedding. His best man was still waiting for the Air Force to call him in for boot camp, but that worked out. the guys in Andy's training time had been in multiple weddings since they all wear their dress uniforms, even if just before a justice of the peace on a boardwalk. Ours wanted a church wedding, and we had the flexibility to make it work. Plus, sis-in-law made silk flower arrangements. Our DIL's dad was a former nuke and he got a caterer on short notice.
Good luck! My sailor's pix are on my profile page.