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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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***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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USPS "If it fits, it ships" - link to order boxes: USPS If it fits, it ships

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Comment by JayDee659 on April 9, 2018 at 7:15pm: Freebird my daughter got her car in the middle of A School. She was really generous about running the kids without cars and many are willing to help out those without wheels. There is no right or wrong answer, it's what is best for your sailor.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 9, 2018 at 7:11pm: Mine didn't get his car until he was heading to Prototype! We shipped it to him about a month before he left for NY.

Comment by Freebird on April 9, 2018 at 7:04pm: Ok, so how many sailors have cars at A-school? Keep telling mine he does not need a car until he starts Power school, but not going over well.

Comment by WearsLargeHats on April 9, 2018 at 1:18pm: Hammer, that is where we usually stayed. Not the cheapest, but good location, clean, comfortable, all nonsmoking. Right off the interstate. The only problem is the left turn leaving the Charleston Southern campus going out toward GC. Allow a few extra minutes at peak traffic.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on April 9, 2018 at 12:45pm: I stayed at Villas too. Very handy for sailor, and large enough that I could have accommodated more people. Looking back I could have asked my ex since he came alone and I had 2 bedrooms. Another family there for grad was a nuke mom I connected with here (still around mommajo?) who also stayed at the Villas. We met up and we had a BBQ on their patio. Villas are dated but clean and well-supplied. You have a kitchen and laundry, can watch TV, dining room. I would recommend.

Comment by The Hammer on April 9, 2018 at 11:43am: Planning my first trip to Goose Creek to bring my sailor his car in June. Anyone ever stay at the Wingate by Wyndham in Charleston?

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on April 9, 2018 at 11:12am: Eyes are doing fine. Will still need correction due to severe astigmatism so I will see Optometrist this week and go from there. I will go glasses at first and hopefully when the eyes are fully healed go to contacts. Getting older (I refuse to say old just yet) sucks.

Counting down days now for the end of deployment. DIL is trying to plan homecoming. As many of you know, nukes are generally first on, last off. Since this is his last homecoming she is hoping to give the kids a taste of it. Our 10-yr-old should remember someday, and maybe the 5yo, She hopes my son can give her a general time when he will disembark, if that's the correct term. Yeehaw, this mama can hardly wait!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 9, 2018 at 11:01am: Here's the phone # for the Foster Creek Villas (on base): 843.794.2120. Usually your sailor will have to make the reservation but I know some parents have got lucky & been able to book it themselves. They have 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms available.

Here's an updated website:

https://www.jbcharleston.com/lodging/foster-creek/

I also updated it in the Hotels, villas, other places to book for a visit discussion in the discussion forum above.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 9, 2018 at 10:56am: Hi all - Happy Monday!

Haha - the squirrel story is funny - can just imagine the little guy running around!

NancyJo - how you doing? Seeing things clearly now?

We did more packing & cleaning at my mom's this weekend. Managed to "twinge" my lower back. I guess I can't complain too much since I've managed to go over a month without hurting it lol. I just hope it's better by the weekend for my nephews wedding. B flies in Thursday night, I'm so excited.

The air show was this weekend at March Air Base - we were heading to my moms and stopped at Costco to get gas. While we were there the B2 Stealth Bomber flew directly overhead. It was so awesome! It's amazing how massive it is.

Chipmunk - Hopefully you got to see a little more of the area where they live, etc. When we visited for A school grad B took us up to his room. Dad was able to go inside but I wasn't allowed - no females were allowed in the rooms - but I was able to look in the doorway.

Comment by Tx Mom of Far Away Nuke on April 9, 2018 at 10:24am: While my son was at school, he didn't want things sent to him because the easiest way to keep his room clean was to avoid clutter. Anything sent to him had to be stowed away somewhere. Just my experience. :) And that only applies at school - deployment is something different.