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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 ⚓️.

Weather - Charleston

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Latest Activity: 18 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 B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 29, 2015 at 10:29am: Hi all - Happy Wednesday!

Comment by britefuture on July 29, 2015 at 7:38am: Got it! Thanks Mark. Yes, flogging would suck, lol.

Comment by Mark on July 29, 2015 at 12:16am: britefuture - it is strictly the number of spots available, though for E5, there is a related variable as well. The number of available advancement spots is directly affected by the number of STAR reenlistments in the cycle. Since advancement to E5 is part of the deal for reenlisting, as harsh as it sounds, each STAR reenlistee is one less spot available on the exam. There's kind of a logic there, if you think about - at least they don't get flogged anymore :))

Comment by britefuture on July 28, 2015 at 9:46pm: Hey Cali. and Mid-west families. Stay safe! I've been seeing a lot about the wild fires out there. That must be frightening!

Comment by britefuture on July 28, 2015 at 9:44pm: Okay so, not to beat a dead horse, but I have a question on the advancements. My son makes E5 next month. He said that the advancement rate above E5, on his ship, for MMN, is not very high. Is that because there aren't positions or does this go back to the, "many different variables", comment?

Or another note. I did get a "funny" message from him this morning. First one in a few days.

Me: Hi Bud, just dropping a line to say....(insert Mommy mushy stuff here)

Son: Hi Mom! (mushy kid stuff here, lol)

Me: It's been hot and humid here, you know typical summer weather for us.

Son: MA! With the heat index, it's 140 degrees here.

Yikes! I will never again complain about the heat. Well.....I'll try not to anyway.

I hope you are all well! ((((((N4M)))))))

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on July 28, 2015 at 2:36pm: My son passed and advanced E6 on his first try

Comment by Mark on July 28, 2015 at 2:32pm: You don't necessarily have to pass more than once to advance. Some will advance on the first test they take. In my day (Reagan admin), it wasn't too hard for MM nucs to advance. I was fortunate in making E5 and E6 on the first attempt - though I probably benefited from the fact that non-nucs had to compete with nucs for the same advancement spots, and nucs are born test-takers compared to the Navy at large. Sometime since, the process was changed so that nucs and non-nucs compete for different spots.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 28, 2015 at 10:44am: Hi all - Happy Tuesday!

It's turning out to be one of those weeks!

Our fridge stopped working - ugh! Have everything in ice chests while trying to get it repaired. Not fun :( Good thing we have an ice machine at work so I can get unlimited ice!

Comment by AParents on July 28, 2015 at 9:24am: Hey William, thanks a bunch for the clarifications. We'll get to know the "terminology" in time, I'm sure. J's/S's mom. Passed the E5 exam several times? Oh my, didn't know they had to pass it more than once to advance. Figured it would take time before it happened, but didn't know they would have to pass it more than once, while putting in their time requirement in rate.

Comment by William in Nashua on July 27, 2015 at 7:19pm: AParents EMN is just shorthand a nuclear-trained EM. The 5% quota means of all the electricians mates who were already an E4 and who passed the E5 exam & the other advancement requirements, 5% of them were advanced to E5. Also of all the electricians mates who were already E5 that passed the E6 exam and the other requirements, 64% of them were advanced to E6.

Sorry I was a bit vague in my earlier post.