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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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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

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Latest Activity: 51 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!

NPTU OMBUDSMAN TEAM (4/2024)

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Comment by Chipmunk on November 15, 2023 at 1:07pm: B'sNukeMom - I am so excited for you!! We took a quick weekend trip to see our older grandchildren who are all turning another year older. Our sailor baby is still in the NICU. We just have to look at pictures for now.

Gigi - Great advice on the packages.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 15, 2023 at 12:21pm: Gigi - They are calling me "Lolli" and my husband is "Pops". So we are Lolli and Pops! I love it ;-D

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 15, 2023 at 12:20pm

Comment by Gigi on November 14, 2023 at 9:18pm: **even you’re not going send thru Amazon** - was just on celphone

Comment by Gigi on November 14, 2023 at 9:15pm: MomofJoseph - with my fresh experience of sending boxes to FPO (my son’s first deployment last month) The last 2 numbers of the unit number and the first 2 numbers of his box numbers are his -4 zip extension numbers. (If you have a unit # and box #). Second option- We can order from Amazon to ship it to Fpo (free shipping and faster than usps) so try to add his address there just add even you’re going to buy anything then Amazon will automatically gives you the last 4 extension numbers. Hope this helps

Comment by Gigi on November 14, 2023 at 9:09pm: Happy for you B’sNukeMom, Baby Oliver granny’s excited to see you :) How are you gonna be called by Baby Oliver?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 14, 2023 at 7:09pm: I can't believe my (not so) little Oliver turned 6 months old yesterday! He's just over 21 pounds! Tickets are bought and we are heading to MI 12/29 for a belated Christmas. It can't get here soon enough. We facetime often but it's just not the same lol!

Comment by Chipmunk on November 14, 2023 at 8:55am: MomofJoseph - Hopefully NickSydmom can help you, but I had the same issue with our post office when trying to ship a package last year to my son's ship. Interestingly, not every PO seemed to have the same issue either.

If you have the address with the Unit and Box #, I think it is, go to the USPS website, then to their Zip Code look up. With my son's ship there were a range of box numbers for one 4 digit extension.

I believe the primary ship address will be Box 1 and so when I did a search of just the FPO it gave me the listing for all possibilities and that is how I saw there were different 4 digit extensions for groups of Box #s on the ship.

Our ship just generally had you use Box 1, but I think above the address underneath the Sailor's Name they wanted you to put the Unit # Division or Department name. The Zip code only helps the box get to the delivery point for the Navy and then from there the Navy transports it to the ship and so the Div & Dept #s (if you don't have a box #) help the ship's mail room sort the mail. At least, that is how I understand it to work.

The automated process with the USPS seems to need the 4 digit but some of the moms in smaller towns did not have the same issue that I did with the system accepting their address.

Comment by MomofJoseph on November 13, 2023 at 3:43pm: NickSydmom - I loved your story about helping the Navy moms with USPS questions! I remembered it today when I had an issue at USPS :-)

My son's friend is in the Marines, and I tried to send him a package overseas. The man at the post office said the system wouldn't let him proceed without having a 4-digit code at the end of the zip code. Any chance you can help me know how to get that info? Can't text the Marine to find out (and his mom has the same address that I have).