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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: 15 hours 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

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 Proud momma on February 17, 2016 at 7:06pm: So how does nuke security clearance work? My son had some kind of clearance verified before he was able to go to RTC. What else do they do for clearance for nukes?

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on February 17, 2016 at 5:59pm: I am not sure on security clearance for my nuke. Seems he wasn't even sure. His twins was very much more involved. Has a guy in a dark suit show up at out house the day after PIR. Interviewed lots of people some at our house while I had to wait outside in the snow! His boss they went to Oaklahoma to interview. Our pastor etc....

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 17, 2016 at 2:00pm: J's/S's, Bravo Zulu!! Good for him and good for you too. What a wonderful achievement.

Good advice regarding the various graduations. It's all very individual.

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on February 17, 2016 at 1:47pm: J's/S'smom CONGRATS to your son on his second medal!!! What a wonderful thing.

Comment by JayDee659 on February 17, 2016 at 12:22pm: Thanks B'sNukeMom! It turns out that she has plans to go to a Christian concert with some classmates that evening and she was afraid her dad and I would be bored. Bored in Charleston? Now that she's figured out that we can entertain ourselves she's very happy that we're attending. So we're off to Charleston next week. We ran into our daughters recruiter at dinner last night and he told me that another young man from here is graduating power school the same day. Such a small world. That makes 3 people from home that are there with my daughter.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on February 17, 2016 at 12:07pm: Hi all - Happy Hump Day!

My son also spent 9 months in DEP. Gave him time to get everything done that he wanted. Towards the end the time flew by!

JayDee - we went to A school grad and had a great time. It was in April (2013) & held indoors. Since we were coming from CA we made a little vacation of it. Did all sorts of fun things - if you can go I would recommend it! We did PIR, A school & Proto (NY). (Everyone says that Power School is probably the biggest as far as ceremony though.) And if you can't make one hopefully you can find another mom to take pictures for you!

Comment by Christa on February 17, 2016 at 11:32am: Hi NancyJo,

We have been here in the States for nearly 8 years now- so my daughter was not quite 11 when we moved here. Since she's been here nearly half of her life and her life is here, she says it wasn't a big deal to renounce Canadian citizenship. I think it was mostly annoying and stressful to her, having to wait for it to go through while worrying that her ship date might be pushed ;) She's very committed to her service and we are so proud of her!

About information- you are so right. I'm hoping that DD will be good about sharing info, but it seems she doesn't always know what's going on either. lol I guess I will follow her lead regarding graduations and such. If she wants us there and we can make it happen, yay! If she doesn't think something is a big deal, I guess we just go with that...

It's weird, isn't it? Being in charge of all of the information for 18+ years, then all of a sudden we know very little and have no say at all. Pretty big adjustment!

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 17, 2016 at 10:44am: My sailor is not a big "sharer" and nothing is ever a big deal. If it wouldn't be for N4Ms, I wouldn't know anything.

I didn't go to A or proto grads due to finances so picked the big ones, PIR and PowerSchool. But Buzzbeck has it right...flexibility is key through this whole process. I can't say it enough: Needs of the navy trumps everything.

My son was in DEP for about 9 months. They did come to him to say he could go early but he said no. He had a whole itinerary of good-bye parties and arrangements to make and once his plans were in place, he didn't want them disrupted. I think how different his life would be b/c it was during DEP that he met and started dating his wife.

laughingchipmunk, was it hard for your daughter to renounce her Canadian citizenship? What a big step. But on behalf of the USA, I'm glad she's ours!

Comment by Christa on February 17, 2016 at 10:03am: Good morning all!

Iaughingchipmunk, I think it's hard to say how long your son's security clearance will take. From what I've experienced so far, there are few hard and fast rules on timing. My daughter enlisted in July and was given her early December ship date. She didn't turn 18 until early September, and had to renounce her Canadian citizenship (she was a dual citizen at the time) before they could start her security clearance. Once that official certificate came in, probably early October, they got to work and everything was set in time for her original ship date. So it seems they did hers in less than 2 months- but maybe they had pretty much everything done and just needed her renouncement cert. to finish? I think the waiting is hard- on them and on us! DD got to Goose Creek Feb. 6, but isn't scheduled to start classes till the week after next, I think. Good thing we all have each other!