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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

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Comment by SlezaksMom on May 6, 2014 at 9:15am: Submomlll - congrats!! I was so proud when my guy got his Crows!!

B'snukemom - thanks! It's been...interesting.

Co-TSM - happy birthday to your guys, congrats on your weight loss and they both sound sweet.

My nuke really struggled with the Chemistry in Power School. He tends to be a "big picture" guy when it comes to learning, so he doesn't do well with "learn this little thing over here and don't worry about the why" sort of thing. Telling him not to worry about something is the BEST way to get him to worry about it! Lol

He ended up doing a LOT of extra study during that section -- most of it office time with the instructor -- because he needed to understand the chemistry better in order to accept the concepts and things they needed him to know for the program.

I told my son that when it came to science, I did best with biology, chemistry and then physics. He promptly said, "The only thing I know about biology is that whether you subscribe to nature or nurture as a theory, it's still half your fault I'm having trouble." We laughed and he felt better. :)

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 6, 2014 at 9:00am: Talked to my nuke boy! Got to say happy birthday to him. He had PFA today got an outstanding on his run, 9.4 his best time yet. Must be those giraffe legs of his. So funny to me as I am only 5'3" and he is 6'4" his class is into Chemistry now, he is finding it a challenge. I told him that was my best class in college, my teacher thought I should have switched from nursing to lab tech or chemist I was so good at it. I am about to go back to school and am going to a culinary school because I love to cook. Chemistry is sort of like cooking in a way, maybe that is why I was good at it.

Comment by Dink(Vinson) on May 6, 2014 at 8:13am: CO-Twin, your son sounds like an absolute sweetheart!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 5, 2014 at 11:57pm: Text chatted with my boy tonight. He was enjoying his last night as a teen. It is my twins birthday tomorrow. They turn 20. Hope he can call or skype as he opens his birthday box. I got him a cuisinart grill. You can grill make panini, pancakes, bacon, and waffles on it. I also got him two books.
Told him how I have been really working on losing weight. So far lost 12 lbs and hope to lose 20 more before his August 1 power school graduation.
He is so sweet, said how proud he is of me. Said, "I will have to buy you a pretty dress,"

Comment by submomIII on May 5, 2014 at 11:39pm: Yay!!! My son passed his A-school comps today!!! So did everybody else in his class - 1406M (I think there were only 12 of them). He's more relieved it's over than anything right now. So proud!!!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 5, 2014 at 1:02pm: Welcome NukesWife and dbs55! Make sure you look at the discussion forum above - especially "view all". You may be able to find some of the info you are looking for there! If not, keep asking and eventually someone will be able to answer for you.

SlezaksMom - glad you made it to FL safe and sound. Good luck on the job search! Glad to hear your son's first watch went well too ;-)

Johanna - definitely looking forward to pictures of your trip! Sounds like an amazing time.....

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I just wish they wouldn't go by so fast......this is how I feel this morning!

Comment by SlezaksMom on May 4, 2014 at 7:05pm: Heard from him and he did well -- not as good as he wanted to, as he got a 3.0 when his normal scores run 3.8-3.9. He has to work on being able to talk and chew gum at the same time (my take...something about be the designated "talker" and going back to where he was taking him too long to find his place?) and said that he nearly had stroke when he was taking a reading and one of the breakers tripped. Luckily, it was intentionally, so no worries. :)

All in all a good day!

Comment by SlezaksMom on May 4, 2014 at 8:12am: Safely arrived in Florida and they've arranged to have no rain today for the official "Unloading of the Uhaul." I'm looking forward to settling in and looking for work.

I got some very exciting news on the drive down from TN. My Nuke, who is in Ballston Spa, found out right before the end of his shift Friday night that he would be the first ET of his class to stand watch...LAST NIGHT!! He sounded excited and nervous. He said that the scheduling instructor (not what my son called him, but my in-head translation as I can never remember the ACTUAL titles) told him that he picked him to go first because he felt like he was more prepared.

I don't know if they say that to all of them, but it sure helped settle my guy!!

If I hear from him, I'll update, but I was too excited not to share! :)

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 4, 2014 at 4:22am: Hey Johanna that sounds wonderful. I know that thing with not being able to post pictures with an ipad. I will look forward to a visual tour when you return, thanks.

Comment by Johanna on May 4, 2014 at 1:55am: Hey CO-TwinSailorsmom, cant seem to post pics from my iPad but will certainly post when I return next week. This has been the trip of a lifetime Today I am off to a part of. Athens called Vouliagmenis. This is a brackish lake formed as the result of an earthquake. The water is said to have healing powers, like Saratoga. You are surrounded by towering, deep orange cliffs and listen to classical Greek music playing off the cliffs, while you soak up the Mediterranean sun... ; ))