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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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Latest Activity: 39 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

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Comment by Gulf Coast Mom on July 22, 2010 at 2:59pm: Jeanne - my son has just been in Groton since January, on a fast attack. He has been out on a 5 day/3 week/8 week and is currently out on an "underway". He was looking forward to some shore time, but has been disappointed. On the last one - 8 weeks - they did get two days in port after 46 days out. Hopefully, he will get to see more in the future.

Comment by RosaEdsmom on July 22, 2010 at 1:32pm: Good morning all~
Congratulations to all who are passing test and heading out to fleet.
It must be a huge relief. :)) Can't wait!
Ed was also a 900 div., not grad and go, and his BC was longer than average.
Have a great day.:)

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on July 22, 2010 at 12:26pm: 2 days!? That's ridiculous!! We have to take semester exams no matter what our grade or attendance is.. I'm more than ready to get out of high school! haha.

But tell "little brother" that it really is the chance of a lifetime. When the divisions march in, it's priceless. And my favorite part is always when all of the divisions sing, "Anchors Aweigh" Although... The Marines seemed much louder at their boot grad while singing the "Marines Hymn" :)

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on July 22, 2010 at 12:24pm: Mary - can't please everybody all the time. We finally came up with a plan at our house. Get kids together or on phone, say here's the plan: Dad and I are going to X on whateverday and will be back on nexteverday. The reservations can and will include you if you choose to go, I just need to know. PS this is important to ____ so it's time to determine which is more important to you and remember you don't get a second chance at this one. Sometimes it doesn't work out the way we want BUT the choice is someone else's and we just have to live with it. Why can't they just listen to us ALL of the time?

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on July 22, 2010 at 11:38am: Jeanne- I know, right!? It was concert band... and I had a solo... but Graduation is a once in a lifetime thing. I wasn't missing it for anything :) I only had to take a letter grade drop because he's "only" my boyfriend. His brothers that missed competition didn't have a single penalty. UGH. Oh well. It's over now :) If only silly civilians knew what the military did for a relationship... :)

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on July 22, 2010 at 11:33am: Denise - I think the info was that there were 2 at GC and 2 others at GL. One of them at GL was a female in A school for Corpsman. There was some discussion of it on the corpsman group.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on July 22, 2010 at 11:18am: Mary and Jeanne- Aaron's was only 7 weeks, too. That kind of caused a problem for me (state band competition weekend), but I said screw band and took the letter grade drop (don't worry I made it up on the final exam :) ). But anyways, he was pushed ahead to be in a 900 division. I think that's normally the only division they push recruits ahead to, but I could be wrong. His first letter to me was horribly depressing because he was behind and had to catch up on all the P-day activities when most of the other recruits in his division had already been there for 2 weeks.

On the flipside of that, my brother was put into a 900 division and was in P-days for much longer than a week.. I'm not for sure (I wasn't very interested in hearing about my brother 2 years ago), but I think he was there for a little over 9 weeks because they couldn't get enough recruits to fill the division.

As far as grad and go goes- I've never seen a 900 division grad and go.. that doesn't mean they never grad and go... But most of the grad and go's I've seen have been from the lower division numbers. :)

Comment by Zazzws on July 22, 2010 at 10:39am: My sailor is doing T-Track while he waits to start power school. He says his mailing address has changed. Instead of his "A" school class number, I write "T-Track"

Your sailor's name
T-Track
101 NNPTC Circle
Goose Creek, SC
29445-6324

Comment by mn linda (nuke MM ELT Groton CT) on July 22, 2010 at 10:23am: Judy, what do you mean by surfaced? Was he assigned an aircraft carrier or will he actually be on land? I understood that nukes were all assigned to either sub or aircraft carrier.

Comment by Sharon ~ K's Mom on July 22, 2010 at 9:54am: Congrats to all who has passed boards recently. Keeping all Sailors and families in prayers!