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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

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Comment by Chipmunk on March 14, 2018 at 11:58pm: Ladies, hopefully your sons are / were (in A school) getting more sleep than mine - because they weren't talking on the phone!! I received a text response at 4:29 AM my time this morning that said - "Fairly well. I need to get more sleep though. Hi." - once I remembered what I had texted him that made sense but I told his younger brother that he could not call his brother and keep him up talking. To which my youngest said, I was off by 10 pm his time!! - The last two weekends, my son has carried on 60 ++ min of conversation with I or my son, but both times he fell asleep on us!!

Which is why I share all the news with you that I can and added more to my discussion above today. Good night my west folks friends!

Comment by ProudOfK on March 14, 2018 at 11:50pm: Speaking of quiet, non-communicative sailors made me chuckle. So here is a typical conversation between my husband and I regarding hearing from our son:
Me: 'I had a K**** sighting today!'
Husband: 'What did he have to say?'
Me: 'Yup'

But oh those Yups are precious!

kai cat - Awesome that your son is headed to GC so soon - that's great!

Comment by PacNWmom on March 14, 2018 at 11:14pm: Buzzbeck and OR_Navymomx2 - Another Oregon mom with a non-communicative sailor here (raises hand)! My dad and I have a running joke: when he calls me he asks what I've heard from my sailor, I say "Nothing, as usual", he says "Yeah, me neither." Thank goodness for this site. Love ya, sea sisters!!

Comment by Buzzbeck on March 14, 2018 at 10:24pm: kaicat: Lucky you, you got to spend the weekend with your nuke! After PIR, our nuke had guard duty, then the 2 am bus ride to the airport, then flew to GC at 6 am. We were zombies by then.

OR_Navymomx2: Bravo Zulu to your nuke graduating from Power School, it's an amazing accomplishment. I am also from Oregon, and my nuke also did not talk. At all. Everything I learned was from JayCee and her nukette.

Comment by KayCee on March 14, 2018 at 9:49pm: B'sNukeMom - thank you for the explanation of the comp exam and also for the "Sailors Perspective of Prototype.." I found myself amused while reading this, but that is only because I am not in those shoes. I actually cannot imagine my anxiety if I were. Thanks again! :)

kai cat - excellent news! That was fast.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on March 14, 2018 at 5:18pm: ugh - sorry it printed so big. I tried to change the font to a smaller size but it won't let me!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on March 14, 2018 at 5:15pm: I copied this over from the discussion on the right "A Sailors Perspective of Prototype from 2009" (Excuse the language!)

Almost done right? Right. Finally. Getting there. You've been at prototype for 5 months, you know how to stand your watches without breaking the boat, you can sit in a cube with more junior students and ramble off procedures and specs all day, and you're finally ready to qualify. So you take the comprehensive exam. This is a COMP like you've never seen before. Its detailed, they're nit picky, and whats more, anything you've learned from ALL THREE schools over the past two years is fair game. You pass comp, you get your final checkouts done, your ready for your qualification board. For your qualification board, you go into a room, and there's two people there not from your crew ready to tear your brain to pieces looking for minuscule details. One is a civilian, he's your worst enemy. The other is an enlisted staff member of your rate. He's worse than your worst enemy. He won't talk much. His job is to sit there and annotate in detail every little mistake you make on your in rate knowledge and then ask you about it later. The more he speaks, the worse your doing and the longer your board takes. The longer your board takes, the more time you have to screw something up, so the longer they keep asking you questions. Its the ultimate mind fuck. So they give you the initial conditions of the plant, and ask you a couple questions to make sure you know whats going on.

Then, they then say "You're steaming at XXX and X event occurs." You look at them, expecting a question. There is no question. They look at you like WTF why aren't you talking? you take the hint. you spend the next 45min if you're on top of your game explaining every little thing that happens on the boat when X event occurs. You go over every action that every watch stander has to take and you have to know WHY. You have to cite the procedure, but you can't look at the procedure. This isn't a big deal, because you have them all memorized at this point. Additionally, you have to go off on every tangent that you can think of that is topically relevant because the more you speak the less they ask.

Then you're qualified. They give you a list of every topic you need to upgrade yourself on and send you on your way. You go get upgraded on that knowledge, and then get your qualified student sticker. The next day, you come in to work and you're on the watch bill... without a staff member. Hope you weren't just cramming and actually know your shit, because now, it IS your crow on the line. At least there isn't a staff member barraging you with annoying questions anymore.... except the Shift Eng.

Comment by JayDee659 on March 14, 2018 at 5:13pm: Kaicat that is great! He will probably class up with his buddies.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on March 14, 2018 at 5:11pm: KayCee - the comp exam (some get upset when it is referred to as comps) is a comprehensive exam covering everything they have learned up to that point in their schooling. It is a written exam. At the end of prototype they have oral boards which is their final exam. They stand before a group (2-3 instructors) and they are drilled on everything. They have a white board and they can use that to work out their answers but it is an oral exam. It can be as quick as an hour or it can last a couple of hours depending on how well they respond and know their stuff.