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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.

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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.

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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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"There is lots to learn before coming to NNPTC." This link will give you much needed info:

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/NNPTC/

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(843) 296-9426

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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.

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Comment by Joniana (Helen) on November 8, 2013 at 1:21pm: NotDaMama, you will be missed. I'm sure all will agree that we pay extra attention to your postings. Hopefully, this change will offer your son some opportunities to re-think and re-boot his future. My Dad always used to say it is just as useful to know what you DON'T want as it is to know what you DO want. Best wishes to your son and family.

Comment by suebal MM3 USS California SSN781 on November 8, 2013 at 11:57am: Not Da Mama, I'm so sorry that your Nuke hit that wall...it is a VERY real wall too. My son told me stories during our drive to Groton last week that just made me want to cry (again). It breaks my heart what they put these "kids" through. It really does.

That being said, when your sailor gets to Groton, if he's a runner, or into karaoke, have him look up "Bellantonio" (that's my son)...Cam has, in one short week, come to love running around the base. When we arrived in Groton, we were allowed to go pretty much anywhere we wanted on the base. It's beautiful--all hills and trees and gorgeousness.

I will say that everyone I've heard of being rerated is so much happier in their new rate (with the exception of 1 young man). Not nearly the stress they are constantly under.

Happy Friday y'all!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 8, 2013 at 11:49am: Welcome OncNurse & Dittersmom! There's some good info above in the discussion forum that will give you some insight into what to expect in the nuke program. And if you can't find it there just ask & someone will be able to guide you in the right direction :)

On the food/galley discussion - my son says the same thing. Galley is usually closed by the time he is done with class & mandatory study hours. He eats a lot of Subway and I send lots of ready to eat tuna packets, mac n cheese, microwave ravioli and of course his sriracha sauce to spice everything up! He can cook so it will be better when he gets to Prototype and has his own kitchen. Just hope he has the time!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 8, 2013 at 11:37am: NotDaMama - I am so sorry to hear about your son. I just don't even know what to say but I echo what NF Mom & J's mom both said.....your son should be proud of his accomplishments - not many even get the opportunity to attempt what he has done. Please stay in touch here - you have been a great source of info to myself and I am sure many others! I look forward to hearing where his Navy journey leads.

I've posted this before but it seems fitting to post it again.....

Comment by NF Mom on November 8, 2013 at 8:19am: Food is one of the many things the single guys/gals have to learn to manage.

My son took his dad to some of his favorite take out / delivery places about half way through power school when he and his dad drove a car back during Christmas break.

They actually deliver to the Nuke Campus ( maybe even the barracks rooms - maybe just the guard shack next to the barracks rooms ) until late evening. Apparently there is a whole take out industry built around Nuke A School a couple of miles from the campus ( not near the subway ).

I am not suggesting that is what they should do, but they do have a variety of options to get hot food during hours the galley is not open. And they can take a sack lunch into the secure classroom building if they want to study through lunch.

Good news is single guys/gals have plenty of money to eat on if that is what they choose to do with it.

Comment by NF Mom on November 8, 2013 at 8:03am: Dittersmom - try this group - Nuke A School FAQ - it has a link to a flow chart and links to long first hand discussions on how they progress through the four training schools of the Nuke pipeline and what jobs they do when they graduate after two years, or so, and go to the fleet.

Nuke A School FAQ

Comment by NF Mom on November 8, 2013 at 7:45am: Not Da Mama wrote: "He passed the 100%, but with only a 48% on his watches he was dropped after completing 93% of the school for lack of initiative or effort. I hope you understood that, and tell those who need to hear it."

Your son made it through the written comprehensive test in Prototype. That means he made it through what I understand to be the most rigorous academic program in the enlisted military ( the academic portion of the Nuke pipeline ).

He did not get dropped for ethical or disciplinary or medical or psychological issues.

I believe he will get to keep his crows because he earned them by passing Nuke A School and also because he paid for them by extending his enlistment from four to five years when he accepted being a Petty Officer.

I do not know if your son Volunteered for subs, but if he did, and he goes to a sub as an A-ganger he should get his sub pay back to when he volunteered. If he volunteered for subs before Boot Camp, in Boot Camp, or at the start of A school, he may get back sub-pay, and that is a lot of money.

If he goes to a sub as an A-ganger he will be in the same department as the people he went through the Nuke pipeline with, and people who went through the same Nuke pipeline at different times.

Not sure if non-Nukes going to subs have to extend their enlistment to 6-years total, but if not, he will only have between two and three years at a sea command before he can get out with tons of experience.

Many, many things to be proud of there.

As far as I am concerned, once a Nuke Not Da Mama, always a Nuke Not Da Mama :)

Comment by Johanna on November 8, 2013 at 6:47am: I sent my son buckets of Subway gift cards. Its right on base and he never missed a meal!

Comment by Not Da Mama on November 8, 2013 at 2:57am: Sorry to say it guys, but we’re toast. My MM is no longer attached to the Nuclear Training Command and is headed, most likely, to Groton for rerating. Don’t know about leave, or 50 million other things.

He passed the 100%, but with only a 48% on his watches he was dropped after completing 93% of the school for lack of initiative or effort. I hope you understood that, and tell those who need to hear it.

God bless all you here, to testify to the love you have for your child, a monument to the values you raised them with, and a tribute to the ideals you help them live up to.

I’m really gonna miss you guys. Mrs. NDM and I have been here most of the 2 year pipeline and followed names from DEP thru boot, A & Power, then Prototype; like a family you helped me cope and help others. It’s been a wild ride, but it’s not over yet. Sounds like he can attend a different A School in Groton and get a different job, or stay an MM. Neat, if he can start over. Hope they don’t take his crow.

Well, he’s still in the Navy, no apparent disciplinary action, and I still have my computer. I would like to check on you all every once in a while, to cheer you on when we can, because technically I’m not a nuke anymore, but then I’m not a Mom anyway. Let me know if you ever get a Pipeline challenge coin. I promise to post details as they become clear.

Fair winds and following seas to you, my dear friends.

Comment by Regi on November 8, 2013 at 2:36am: Dittersmom - This link has many navy acronyms to make your head spin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Navy_acronyms