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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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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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A place to come for support and guidance for anyone with a loved one in the nuke program ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2692
Latest Activity: yesterday

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 NancyJo (NNPTC) on November 21, 2016 at 6:34pm: Love Minnie Mouse! What fun! Great Thanksgiving graphic too. I started to get a tummy ache reading all that. Yikes!

So glad for the 3-day workweek. I hope everybody has a great holiday. We won't all be with our kiddos but that doesn't mean we won't be thinking of them. If you do have your sailor with you, be sure and give a big N4M hug for those of us with empty arms.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 21, 2016 at 6:17pm: Here's a picture of hubby & me & the birthday girl. She's so sweet!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 21, 2016 at 6:08pm: Hi all - Happy Monday! Busy (short) week this week so I won't be checking in much but I'm always thinking of all of you!

PattiP - love the picture - thank your for sharing. I got goosebumps reading NancyJo's comments about the timing of them finishing BC & perhaps going into battle.....really makes you think and appreciate the sacrifices our military men and women make.

Thanks for sharing MommaShep and BZ to your son on his accomplishments!

jurisprude - woohoo - your sailor is so close now. Glad you had a nice visit in Charleston :)

We went to a bday party for a little 3 year old this weekend. It was Minnie Mouse themed and so cute! Had lots of fun.

My veteran son is going to Michigan for Thanksgiving with his GF. College son is going with his GF to her aunts house. This is the "off" year with the in-laws so it will just be hubby and I and my mom. I think we're going to go to one of the local casinos for dinner and a little gambling (I'll spend my $20 and be done right away lol!). Hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving!

Comment by jurisprude on November 21, 2016 at 12:37pm: ... and gals!

Comment by jurisprude on November 21, 2016 at 12:36pm: Hi everyone. Haven't checked in in a while but have been reading comments everyday. All's well with prototype graduation around the corner and ELT training next. Just returned from Charleston. These are the coolest group of guys. So supportive of each other.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on November 21, 2016 at 10:56am: PattiP, I love that photo! How great that you have it. Those guys finished boot camp 4 months before D-Day. I wonder how many of them saw action there? They would have missed the Battle of Iwo Jima but might have seen the Battle of Okinawa. I wonder how many lived to see the end of the war? That photo holds the images of some of the Greatest Generation. Awesome.

B'sNuke & WearsLargeHats, I love you guys.

MommaShep, that's a great post. It could have been written by any one of us but I know I could not have been so articulate. Well said. Good luck to your sailor on the GW. Is there a GW group here on N4Ms? I'm on the Vinson page and while there isn't much going on now, once we deploy next year I know it will be hopping.

Comment by MommaShep on November 20, 2016 at 9:25pm: So I haven't posted in a long time but I follow all your comments. My son is a new nuke on the GW and his final board is Monday and then he goes to division - not completely sure what that all means but after all the stress of prototype it just can't be that bad - can it? He seems happy and has made some really nice friends on the ship. Our family had the amazing opportunity to fly to Norfolk to participate in the family day event the GW hosted back in October. I will never forget that special day! I am so impressed with our Navy and how they include families. The best thing that ever happened to my son has been joining the Navy and making it through the nuke program in GC. There were times when he seemed close to breaking and we kept telling him he could do it and that we had faith in him. I never let him know how many times I'd hang up the phone and melt into tears wishing I could do more to encourage him. So all you new nuke mommas need to stand strong and never doubt your amazing kids!! They need to hear a confident voice on the other end of the phone telling them - NEVER QUIT!!

Wow not sure where all that came from - but hope it helps you newbies. Love to all the Navy Moms who've been posting over the past couple of years - you've been my lifeline without even knowing it.

Looking for the GW nuke moms - think someone posted a few weeks ago?

Comment by girl chief on November 20, 2016 at 9:09pm: Thanks everyone for the well wishes for my daughter as she embarks on her post-Navy adventures. I have stayed with you thus far and may hang on since my future son-in-law is also a Nuke. If any one has questions about the medical discharge process, I can relay to my daughter for a perspective from someone who has been through it.

BsNukeMom and WearsLargeHats - thank you so much for keeping this going. I am in a Navy Mom's FB group but it is nothing like this site. This site helped me through DEP, Boot Camp. A school and Power School. The information and advice was invaluable.

CoTwin - My daughter says she wants to teach High School English. As many have said, she was always smart but was not interested in college the first time she went. She dropped out after 1 1/2 years because she didn't want to do the math requirement (she was a Drama major). When she decided to take the ASVAB, she studied harder than I had ever seen her do (to that point) and scored high enough to make the Nuke program. The Navy experience has really matured her.