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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 ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: yesterday

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

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Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on January 30, 2011 at 7:02pm: Zazzws, please let me know if it ok to send your write-up to my son.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on January 30, 2011 at 6:51pm: Zazz, thanks for the reality check. I think in the back of my mind I was envisioning the nuke program as a kind of "college in a uniform" ... now I understand better how exhausted my sailor must be. I gave him a heads-up that a snack box was coming for him to watch the Super Bowl, and he sounded exasperated when he told me he didn't even know who was playing, and didn't care ... he has comps the day after the game and will not be watching TV on Sunday. I told him to not be so hard on himself, lighten up, enjoy his free time ... but now I realize, this is seriously heavy-duty stuff and I believe he does have the right mentality to get through it.

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 30, 2011 at 6:40pm: well like a wise woman once told me, you can only prepare your kids so much, and hope they will make the right decision when the time comes (regardless of what that might be), and then we send them off into the world to become who they are, not who we want them to be any longer. Its hard, and if we guide when we think they need to hear it, and push just a bit, and be there for them, I think they can scale those tall building in a single bound!

We as humans all need challenges or at least I think so. But our boys tend to need them more, so that they can prove themselves a man.

Now girls on the other hand, have always had that "glass ceiling" which is still around I don't care what people say. We have to work twice as hard still to even get noticed in business. Things have changed a lot in the past 10 years but it is still there. So their first real challenge is to break thru that barrier, and that is a feet in its self.

Comment by nvmomma on January 30, 2011 at 6:25pm: I think if my sailor would have seen that interpretation of the program before he enlisted, he never would have done it. He doesn't like to work that hard. I think I will keep this one under wraps, it's scary and overwhelming enough for mom to read, might send my sailor right over the edge. I'm thinking better to take one day at a time, and pray that much harder now I know what he's facing. Ignorance is bliss...? I'm sure he is getting a good enough idea of what he has signed on for from other avenues...

Comment by DramaboysMom on January 30, 2011 at 6:21pm: Yep, Zazzws, telling it like it is has been a big help to most of us. It IS scary as hell, but life is scary as hell if you think about it.

Diana, I'm with you. I sit on the fence about telling my sailor. I see good and bad about having him know from someone else's point of view. Surprisingly, when my son met his Nuke Recruiter in Chicago MEPS, it was the older brother of one of his HS classmates. ( the recruiter is 7 years older than my son, so they didn't know each other) The Recruiter was astonished to see my son, a 21 year old kid, from a super small farming community in North Central IN, who qualified for Nukes. Recruiter pretty much told him the good, the bad and the ugly about Nukes. And that didn't scare my son off, so maybe Zazzws insight would be good!

Comment by NavyMomLG on January 30, 2011 at 6:11pm: Zazzws, this helps us understand why they may not answer the phone when we call, or respond to our texts as quickly as we would like :) Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Sharon ~ K's Mom on January 30, 2011 at 6:08pm: @Dor, sorry for all that is happening. I can add that we have Kelsey and she fits into our family perfectly! She and Diego are perfect for one another and we are proud that we have her in the family. She girls just try to get a guy and then there are so many issues, then they get married and comes with more issues, then add a baby and jiminy crickets, it is never ending. Prayers that the "old" girlfriend stays out of his life and he continues with the "new" girl and all will be happy.

Comment by Diana AZ NavyMom on January 30, 2011 at 5:51pm: Zazzws, thanks for telling it like you saw it. I don't know whether to tell my sailor or not. Sometimes it is easier to deal with the difficulties one step at a time, instead of seeing the whole picture. Yet, seeing the whole picture may help him hunker down and get through it.

Comment by Diana AZ NavyMom on January 30, 2011 at 5:48pm: Dor, I hate the way our kids can hurt us with their unthinking actions and self-focus. I will be praying for you and your boys.