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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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 ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2695
Latest Activity: 10 hours 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!

NPTU OMBUDSMAN TEAM (4/2024)

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Comment by BunkerQB on August 13, 2009 at 2:16am: If I remember correctly, my son's trip to DC went like this. He was with a group of 5 or 6 guys being interviewed. There were a series of interviews conducted by a group of officers. If a candidate passes, the last interview is with an admiral. The admiral gives either a thumb up or thumb down. Immediately after the admiral gave my son the thumb up, he signed the papers and was sworn in (I think he was the only one who got the thumb up). Silly me. I thought there would be some special ceremony. I had threatened to take him back to DC and have them do it again with the admiral, of course, so I could video everything. That fell on deaf ears, like many maternal cluckings (please feel free to substitute your own word) from former helicopter moms. I am out of sorts tonight - getting my younger son ready to depart from CA to OK. Don't mind me. I am just going through another impending empty-nest episode. I dread sorting through more boxes that they leave behind. I am familiar with the East Coast or the West Coast. The Mid West is like a foreign country. I hear they don't have sushi, Indian food, Chinese food, sour dough bread, Gordon Biersch beer or vegetables. Go ahead, Nuke moms, LYAO. Just hand me another box of tissues.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 12, 2009 at 9:07pm: I don't know if there is an Officers Nuke group, but even if there is you are still in the right place. There are moms of Officers and wives of Officers ( like me) who can answer questions for you. He just needs to get into the program. If they are sending him to DC, it sounds like he has a good shot at it.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 12, 2009 at 7:45pm: Denise, I'm guessing you are talking about an Officers slot in the Nuke power program? My husband was an Officer but he went into the program from the USNA. I know a fare bit about the Officer training for the Nuke program, but not how they get into the slot. The Navy requires great patience. Everything moves on Navy time.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 9, 2009 at 9:31pm: When my son was at power school only married sailors could live somewhere other than in the Q. They had to move off base when they got to prototype.

Comment by Anti M on August 9, 2009 at 10:25am: Cyndi, I don't know why people get told they get 2 weeks after boot camp. They don't, none of them!

Comment by Gulf Coast Mom on August 9, 2009 at 12:44am: Dalton's mom - when you are checking flights, check flights into Milwaukee also, We flew into Milwaukee and booked rental car thru hotwire. Airport was small and had good experience with flying into there and with rental cars. Good luck!!

Comment by Pat L. in IL on August 7, 2009 at 3:35pm: Judy, WOOHOO!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Give your sailor a HUGE hug from all his "other Moms"...You must be so excited. Is there any way you will sleep tonight...I THINK NOT!!!! Wishing you HAPPY tears and a sweet reunion.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 7, 2009 at 2:53pm: Hi Dalton's Mom. We also drove a long way to the PIR, thinking that my son was a grad N Go. It changed the day before the PIR, so we stayed and spent some time with him before he left on Monday morning. Don't miss it, its a once in a life time event. Unless, like me, you have a second child decide to enlist.

Comment by Pat L. in IL on August 7, 2009 at 12:24pm: Welcome Dalton's Mom, First of all, your sailor would not get to come home after basic or be able to ride with you to SC. The recruiter could not possibly know who would be grad and go. Practically speaking, because you live so close to Goose Creek maybe it would be a waste of gas and time to go to PIR. BUT REALISTICALLY, PIR is a fabulous event that you will remember for the rest of your life. Never having been terribly practical myself, I wouldn't miss it for the world!! Once he gets to GC, if his test scores are good, you can see him on weekends.

Comment by carols_kitchen on August 7, 2009 at 11:02am: Our sailor was home for the Christmas holidays last year while he was in A school at GC. We are 850 miles away. Be sure the chit request gets in as soon as their instructors tell them, so you can buy airline tickets if necessary.
Also, our son flew on Delta, and last year they did not charge for military luggage. So he returned to GC with about 200 pounds of stuff.