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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).

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**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

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Comment by Mark on October 19, 2015 at 1:26pm: Since the prototypes are functional nuclear reactors, they always need a full set of watchstanders, just like a ship in port. If the reactor is shutdown, they still need a full set, although not quite as many as when the reactor is operating. Because of this all-important consideration, there is no planned mass leave around holiday periods at either prototype site. I suspect that J's/S'smom's older son got lucky and the shift rotation worked out for him so that his days off happened to fall over Christmas Day - that would be a good question for the older son. That is realistically the most you can hope for. I suppose that if they are in the first six weeks or so of prototype at the time, while they are doing the classroom phase, it's possible to grant leave to students over a holiday - but I think it's unlikely. The considerations are the same for both BS and GC, so I would expect the policies to be very similar, if not identical.

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on October 19, 2015 at 12:01pm: J's/S'smom thank you for saying something about the holidays. I was just going to ask that question. My son starts Prototype in a couple of weeks and he is in BS. I've asked him about the holidays, but he has know idea. I told him I would ask here as all of you have been so helpful on this journey. So what is it like for them in BS during the holidays? Do they get down time at all? I'm guessing that if they do it's not enough to come home, when that's in Colorado or California?

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on October 19, 2015 at 11:42am: Thanks, J's/S'smom! I'm so blessed! Now we're waiting for my daughter and her husband's baby in December. He is a former navy nuke that is a nuclear engineer now. It will be their 5th baby in case any people you know make cracks about nuke fertility. (Crazy, right? People!) Simon was my 7th grandchild so December will be the 8th. I feel like a female biblical Abraham...descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on October 19, 2015 at 11:38am: Love the pic w/ Ditter'smom! Why didn't we selfie?!?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 19, 2015 at 11:23am: Here's me & Dittersmom!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 19, 2015 at 11:22am: Hi all - Happy Monday!

Aw NancyJo - the pictures of your grand babies are adorable! I had mentioned in a previous post that I got to meet the 2 older ones (along with your sailor) on our visit ;-) And yes we did have a nice visit!

And this weekend I got to meet at the same Starbucks with Dittersmom! I also got to meet her hubby, her sailor and one of her daughters. I love being able to meet fellow nuke mom's <3 Oh and her sailor had a sailor friend that also met up with us there so I got hugs from 2 sailors! Great weekend!

Welcome MICKIE - make sure you read the pages (9) of them to the right - under the member profiles. You'll find lots of good info there. And feel free to ask any questions you may have! Your son should have time off at Christmas. They stagger it though and he may not get the exact date of Christmas but he should get some time off. And he won't need to worry about going in the hole as he'll be earning plenty of vacation time while he's in school.

I'm counting down the days to see my sailor in VA! Can't wait ;-)

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on October 19, 2015 at 11:00am: I forgot to mention that B'sNuke and I got together while I was in San Diego. We went for coffee and before we knew it, 5 hrs had passed. Thanks, B'sNuke, it was so wonderful. I hope we can do it again.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 19, 2015 at 10:53am: All your grandkids are keepers.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 19, 2015 at 10:52am: Nancy Jo, What a cutie grand baby you have. Yes that was a fast birth WOW!!

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on October 19, 2015 at 10:19am: NancyJo congratulations!!! Love the pictures. Glad you made it in time, that's a wonderful experience all around.