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Navy For Moms

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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Navy Speak

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: on Friday

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

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 New Adventures on February 4, 2020 at 1:47pm: Northwoodsmom and SparkJags- Mine was 24 when he started the process but expected to turn 25 before BC started. Because of many things they said it would not be an issues. He is 25 now and is not the oldest in his A school for ETNs. I think he told me one of this classmates is 28.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 4, 2020 at 1:04pm: B'sNuke, it was 60's this past Sunday so it isn't always cold! But Cabo sounds awfully wonderful. I'm doing OK. Half done with radiation. My sailor has not liked being far from home while Mom's been sick but I've been so blessed in that all looks very good and it hasn't been that bad. FYI for those who don't know I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer this past November. Surgery followed by radiation and I should be good to go.

I've followed everything here just not chiming in much. You moms are the best. The NE Navy moms are having lunch on Saturday. I just love my Navy Moms!

Comment by AP's*nuke*mom* on February 4, 2020 at 12:24pm: nancyjoe(cvn70) thank you!! I am so lost with all this Nuke stuff

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on February 4, 2020 at 11:54am: Hi all - Happy Tuesday!

NancyJo - Hi! How are you doing? N's girlfriend just visited him this past weekend in NE. They had a wonderful time....it was pretty cold though lol! Believe it or not we're getting wind here in SoCal and it's been cold - freeze warnings at night. Right now it's 41 but feels like 33. That's not normal for us!!! One month from tomorrow hubby and I head to Cabo for a week. Can't wait!!!! Looking forward to some nice R&R.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 4, 2020 at 9:29am: cathyhend, LOL

Congrats to our new BC grads!

Comment by Chipmunk on February 3, 2020 at 8:37pm: Canuka - Thank you!! I think my husband was pinching himself last night. He kept repeating, they really did it!!

Comment by Chipmunk on February 3, 2020 at 8:28pm: Sandy & Cathyhend - Welcome to Nuke Moms group!

Canuka - I miss Charleston! I just recently came across a vintage children's book about Charleston, so it is sitting next to my recliner. I am learning a few things I did not know when we visited during Nuke school.

Velvetenor - Be sure to read my discussion above, A school daily schedule - a sailor's perspective. My son is ETN3 and we have other ET mom's on here as well, so feel free to ask any questions. It is not uncommon for the ET's to have to wait several weeks to class up. Remind him to get his UIs (Under Instructions done and out of the way.)

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on February 3, 2020 at 6:58pm: Velvetenor - woohoo! BZ to your new Sailor....now it's hurry up and wait lol! You'll get used to it ;-D

Canuka - glad you had a nice time in Charleston - it is a beautiful place to visit!

cathyhend - ok, I gotta admit - I did lol at that one.

Comment by Canuka on February 3, 2020 at 6:37pm: Hello all

Checking in from Charleston airport.

It is sunny and nice here today. Not so last Friday for the graduations. A-school was early and indoors while Power School grad was outside in the cold drizzle. A new PS class was weighing in before our ceremony. Our son had a few days of liberty but no leave. It looks like a long T-track.

Thank you all for your advice and support. We are certainly enjoying the excuse to come to Charleston.

Chipmunk - Congrats to you KC Chiefs.

Comment by Velvetenor on February 3, 2020 at 6:19pm: Hi everyone! My Sailor had his PIR on Friday and arrived at GC safely on Saturday! Woo! It was so great to see him this past weekend, and now he has his phone and can call and text me, so I feel SOOOO much better that the lines of communication are open again!

Now the waiting begins - we thought that he was going to class up for A school next Monday, but when he got to GC on Saturday he said that they told him he might not class up for another 6-8 weeks. We knew this could happen, we were just hoping that he might have gotten lucky and been the last ones into the early class.

His rate is ET, and he arrived with 2 friends, another ET and an EM. He ended up with no roommate, for now, but his EM friend is right next door. He tried to see if they would move his ET friend in with him to be his roommate, but that didn't seem to fly, unsurprisingly. LOL!

Anyway, I am looking forward to hanging out some more with all of you in this group, and learning all the Nuke stuff there is to know! :)