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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: 20 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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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 TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 29, 2011 at 3:01am: Labs:

That must have been hard for you to have to say goodbye after the weekend of PIR and know that he was going to sit at GL, and then to find out he sat at GC for that long, heck he could have been sitting at home LOL.

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 29, 2011 at 2:59am: amanda thank for your candid response. Yes she is very shy, I did however gave her the links to this site and I hope she joins at some point, I think it would help her understand the Navy more. But she does have another thing going for her, her Father is Active Army, so she has grown up around the military. But while I have been thur Basic Training as I was Army as well, it still don't make it any easier that my son is now doing it, my Mama Bear is out! We don't want anything to happen to our Baby Cubs LOL. I know he can do it, its a challenge and I really hope he meets it head on. I know things can happen in BC that are unexpected, but really I feel like BC and A'school will be the start of a great life for my son. So while she has been around the military, Its a different situation all together. She is now a g/f/Fiancée missing "her other half" its a lot different than missing a father/mother. I will try and pass the information on to her, and see how she takes it.

Comment by poeticfeet6 (Ship 07 DIV 104) on January 29, 2011 at 2:58am: Labmom39- I really hope that's how it goes for him. I would really like to see him and I know he wants to see his babygirl for sure.

Comment by amanda on January 29, 2011 at 2:32am: TxLadyJane-I have to agree with aaron's girl. When my future MIL talked to me and shared with me what she knew from BC letter, it made my whole day! Especially for the 2 years of our dating before the navy, we hardly said one word to each other. Then out of the blue she thought I was selfish and didn't like me much after graduation (loooong story probably like 50 pages back on here) but after this week when I voluntarily called her to try to get bereavement information for flights from her and let her know i was going to find my fiance a flight so all he has to do is come back from studying and say yes, make that one. She sent me a message the next day telling me thank you and that its hard to let go as a mom but she knows he's in good hands. MADE MY DAY! Because the whole past year I've been trying to prove myself to her when I felt that the past 3 and a half should have spoken for me (of course, I stressed that she'll always be his mom and I'm not looking to take that away). I actually sound like your future DIL, ambitious, going to college regardless, just a fraction of a gpa away from valedictorian, except not so shy lol. Btw, if she'd like to talk to another girl in the same situation, I can private message you my info so she can get ahold of me. Doesn't sound like she'd be the kind to voluntarily call a stranger, but the invitation is there nonetheless and I won't mind if you or her don't take it.

Also, forward the message aaron'sgirl said about a-school being the make it or break it to your son and his fiance. I swear my then-boyfriend and I couldn't go a week or two fighting as we were trying to get adjusted into this new lifestyle and figure out where a relationship fits. It can work, we have tons of significant others who are testimonies, but man, it'll tell you if he/she's (or i guess really the navy since we all know we're actually marrying it) the one or not! After a few big blowouts, we got ourselves adjusted, made a whole lot of compromises, and tried to help the other see what it was like in the other's shoes.

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 29, 2011 at 1:52am: poet you are welcome, glad you found this site, I sure was last week!

Comment by poeticfeet6 (Ship 07 DIV 104) on January 29, 2011 at 1:51am: Thanks you guys, that's really helpful. At this point I'll be excited just to hear his voice.

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 29, 2011 at 1:51am: poet arrons girl is a good person to talk to, her Sailor is already in A School.

Comment by TxLadyJane(ET Nuke Mom) on January 29, 2011 at 1:49am: poet: from what I understand after week 4 of training at A School, they have off post liberty and such, so that might be a good time to do it, but its only on the weekends. After week 8 if I am reading right they have liberty after they get off classes for the day. So that is a totally good option.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on January 29, 2011 at 1:49am: After he gets down there, you can go get married whenever you'd like. He just has to get it approved.. I'd say within a month you could be married. That's just my estimate, though. Then as soon as he gets paper work done for his page 2 and housing, you could move in. :)

Comment by poeticfeet6 (Ship 07 DIV 104) on January 29, 2011 at 1:46am: Well we aren't married that's why I was asking. We want to get married as soon as possible because we have a lil girl and he wants to be able to see her. But we have no idea how or when we can get married.