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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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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

Members: 2692
Latest Activity: on Friday

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!

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Comment by jam's mom (Patty) on January 17, 2012 at 10:30am: @smcfar92 That is so wonderful!!!

Comment by smcfar92 on January 17, 2012 at 9:22am: DOR: I am pleased to hear your wonderful news! I don't post much on here but I just wanted you to know that if he is flying into BWI (Baltimore) to transfer to another plane, if you want, I can go meet him to take him a meal and send you a picture. Our airport does a wonderful job of welcoming the soldiers home since we are usually the first stop on homeland. You can send me a personal message if you want......

Comment by DramaboysMom on January 17, 2012 at 8:04am: Ok.. 5 degrees Sunday am and 47 degrees Monday night. Then This AM 50 degrees TONS of rain, and dropping to 19 tonight... ShEEsh I have a weather headache!

Comment by tina41 on January 17, 2012 at 7:22am: good morning!!

dor--i am happy he is coming home. give him a hug and dont let go!!!

comps today for class:1152B!! please pray for them and for any others taking them!

Comment by susank on January 17, 2012 at 1:14am: So happy for you Dor. You need to spend time together to start the healing process! Prayers for both of you.

Comment by Maddie on January 16, 2012 at 3:11pm: Almost nostalgic to read all about boot camp. Seems like sooo long ago. Boot camp was probably more an adventure for many of us moms than our kids. My son said it was "nothing.". Many of the parents from our div were so involved, the kids were the first div that were sought out to photograph for the BC FB pages. There wre at least five nukes in his div and they all seemed to have had a good experiences. The RDCs caught wind of our n4m activities and they showed a slide show of all the comments we put in. Some got teased about what some of us moms wrote about our babies but it was all in good fun apparently.

Comment by tina41 on January 16, 2012 at 1:26pm: hello all!!

when my son went to goose creek from GL we met him at the airport at 1am and his plane took off around 630am there were others flying out later and some earlier.

Comment by PhoenixMomPS1204 on January 16, 2012 at 1:16pm: @eliza383: My son left for Nuke School on Jan 7th. His bus to the airport left at 4:00 a.m. and his flight didn't leave until 5pm. There was another group whose bus left at 2 am. (not sure what their flights were). All the new sailors leave on one or the other of these buses to the airport, regardless of where they are going. Then they sit at the airport and wait for their respective flights. Flights vary from week to week from what I hear - prob. based on availability.

Comment by DramaboysMom on January 16, 2012 at 11:37am: Sailor Son recalled several things at Christmas this year about boot camp last year. He was older (22) with a college degree and some life experience to bring to the table. He knew to keep his mouth shut and pretty much flew under the radar. He did say there were several things, pranks I would say, that his DIV played on other DIVs. during the night and wee morning hours. And knowing him the way I do... he was probably the instigator. They never got caught, but I think my son would have classified them as "team bonding" experiences. After BS21, his RDC asked him (and several others) who was the master planner, and all fingers pointed to my sailor... and the RDC said he knew about some of them, laughed with the boys, but let it never happen again.. ( wink wink)

Sailor son said the kids that have the hardest time are the ones who have to "peacock" for everyone. Doesn't matter if they are older or younger, but he said the younger recruits often times seemed like they had something to prove, so were more often the ones that got "picked" on.

As Chumbawamba says "I get knocked down, but I get up again
You nay ever gonna keep me down"

Comment by eliza383 on January 16, 2012 at 10:40am: Hi, my son is still in BC but I am just curious if in the past the Nukes generally fly out of O'hare to SC, and if there is a pattern as to what time their flights are. It looks like the only direct ones are either 8 am(ish) or 7:15 pm on Saturdays.