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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

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

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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 31, 2019 at 11:13am: ShipofDoodles - you can post pictures. Like you said you can see they post pictures (and often times even names) on official Navy FB pages and groups. It's just best to get in the habit of practicing OPSEC/PERSEC every chance you get. On this website we don't post our names and we don't post our sailor's names. This is a public website and can be seen by anyone so we try to be more careful. And it's good practice for when they deploy. Some commands advise their sailors not to post anything and others don't care. It's always better to be safe then sorry, but you don't have to completely wipe your social media clean! (And just to clear up any confusion my son is out of the Navy now so I post more pictures than I did before.)

Comment by JayDee659 on October 31, 2019 at 11:06am: Happy Halloween. Hard to believe but 4 years ago today, we were on our way home from PIR. Where does the time go?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 31, 2019 at 10:53am: Happy Halloween!

Comment by ShipOfDoodles on October 31, 2019 at 10:33am: Thanks to all for the info on pics and security. This has really helped. I was paranoid about even posting a picture of my SR leaving MEPS on FB with no name and no identifying location--and in civilian clothes. He was walking down a sidewalk. Only "Friends" can see my posts, but I deleted it anyway. I am really nervous about FB, but it was how I reconnected with my "sisters" from college for a recent reunion. Now it seems I've opened a can of worms and will probably just stop using it altogether. It is exhausting to follow and can really suck time out of a day.

Again, I reiterate that I hope they are making sure the sailors leaving BC know what the limits are...

Comment by Chipmunk on October 31, 2019 at 8:40am: JayDee659 - I do feel a little blessed with the Ford news. I will check out the Navy Times, I didn't look yesterday. Thanks!

Comment by Chipmunk on October 31, 2019 at 8:38am: New Adventures - I realized that no, I don't have any pictures of my son in his NWUs and I don't even think I have seen him in them, except maybe once?? He was usually changed to his civilian clothes before or he was in his dress clothes. For that matter, I have never seen him in his dress blues except for the BC picture that sits on my desk.

Now, there is no reason that when you go visit him, if he is able to change into them in a hotel room or something that you can not take a picture of your son and keep it for yourself.

I don't post many pictures here, but every time I do, I have to reteach myself the proper way to cut the name tag and color it, so it is completely gone, not just "hide" it only to have it appear and disappear on screen.

The BEQs at GC have different designs. My son was in the farthest hall (you can see them on Goggle maps) and his room was 2 adjoining rooms with a bathroom shared by 4 guys. They also had a lounge and finally got the laundry working in his BEQ. And yes, most likely he will have time off this Christmas but will be in Prototype next year. My son had about a week off and with flights and 2 full days in the airport, we opted for him to not come home. He went with his roommates family, I mailed presents and a stocking that I stitched closed and we Skyped!

Comment by JayDee659 on October 31, 2019 at 8:00am: ShipOfDoodles they are not supposed to be photographed with their names showing. I know a lot of pictures are out there, but you can't control everyone. My daughter is not on fb but I wouldn't "tag" her if she was. Any picture that I post on fb is run by her first and she checks it for name tags, beer bottles, whatever. Even though she is well over 21 she doesn't want alcohol in the picture (I've done my share of cropping on family pictures due to that one glass of wine).

Chipmunk the Ford has been in the news a lot lately. It's nice that they finally have their problems worked out. Navy Times had an article yesterday about the successful sea trials. Maybe they can take the Truman's place while they work on their repairs.

Comment by ProudOfK on October 30, 2019 at 11:41pm: ShelleuMarie - the minimum score in most cases is 2.5. A perfect score is 4.0. Hope that helps.

Comment by ShipOfDoodles on October 30, 2019 at 10:16pm: Thank you, Chipmunk. I’ve never been big on tagging and don’t use FB much, but this is helpful to know! I sure hope this is one thing they get through their heads in BC and INDOC!!

Comment by Chipmunk on October 30, 2019 at 10:07pm: ShipOfDoodles - I will defer your question to others who know more, but the tagging of names in pictures is just our preference. My son's pictures are out there, I am sure on my husband's FB account. Let me share that I have a niece whose husband is in a different branch of the military. Because of duty stations, FB is one place she can post pictures for the family, but she never has given her children's names, and pictures with her husband are never tagged.