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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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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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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

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Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on February 8, 2013 at 11:52pm: So. Lincoln work postponed. Threats to cancel Stennis work if budget doesn't happen. Truman deployment cancelled. Threatened training to stop with carrier qualifications if the budget doesn't happen.

Quick question. If the Navy won't fund training because of budget cuts, does this mean those carriers who don't already have fleet qualifications done after their maintenance done won't be able to deploy?

Comment by NAVY-em's_Mom on February 8, 2013 at 8:46pm: I can't answer your question exactly. My son had to have a waiver for a poor math grade in HS. We were told because he was Nuke DEP, that his waiver had to go a different path than regular waivers. I know that a diagnosis of ADD requires a general waiver for anyone to get into any branch of the military. I'm wondering if the wrong type of waiver was applied for and approved. I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, his waiver would need to be approved by the 'Nuke chain of command' in addition to the waiver to be accepted into the Navy. I would go back and talk to the Navy recruiter office and see if they still have a paper trail, as well as what kind of waiver they applied for.

Comment by Mark on February 8, 2013 at 6:37pm: In actual news, I saw this item linked on Drudge from a Navy release that the Lincoln refueling and Enterprise defueling are on hold due to the budget mess. This really surprises me, especially the refueling, because of the potential cascading effect. It's bound to disappoint nucs on the Enterprise too, who will be attached to the ship longer to support the defueling than they otherwise would, delaying their reporting to an operational vessel.

CVN 72 refueling

Comment by Mark on February 8, 2013 at 6:29pm: No disrespect, but I'm not buying the body type thing. For one, I never heard of such a thing and remember all kinds of body types in all three rates on the boat back in the day. The best example would be MMs, where a range is actually useful, from the little dudes that can fit into small spaces to work on stuff occasionally (especially welders), to the hulking types that can muscle stuff around when necessary. Plus, in a development since my day, there are plenty of females in the program now, who are represented in all three jobs, and obviously tend to be smaller in stature than the guys, and if they were much bulkier than the average female, would tend to struggle more with the physical fitness requirements, so wouldn't be around anyway.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on February 8, 2013 at 5:51pm: My son is also an MM and he's about 6'4".

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 8, 2013 at 2:31pm: I don't know. My son is a 6' MM

Comment by suebal MM3 USS California SSN781 on February 8, 2013 at 1:57pm: I have also heard that the assignments to rates is entirely subjective--they assign you your rate based on your "body type." That's how it worked when my son was in boot...I'm not even close to saying this is how it's done all the time, but it's what he was aware of. My son is an MM--he's not very tall (5'9"), and muscular.

Comment by 1proudmama/EM/USSLincoln/CVN72 on February 8, 2013 at 11:49am: My son is a future Nuke. He enters bootcamp this March 4, then down to S.C for Nuke School. When will he be assigned his rating or class. Em,ET, or MM and how do they determine this. His father was in Navy Nuke Program many moons ago, but can't remember procedure of all this. We are hoping he gets assigned ET like his dad.

Comment by Mark on February 7, 2013 at 3:28pm: That's very gracious, suebal, and I appreciate it (not to mention NancyJo's kind words). Thanks for the info, Mary - your info that Lincoln was not yet in Newport News was just useful at work, ironically.

Comment by William in Nashua on February 7, 2013 at 3:05pm: Here in Nashua, BAE Systems announced 300 jobs cuts recently most of them in Nashua. For a little city in New Hampshire there is a surprising amount of defense work that gets done.