This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
Submarine Schooling in Its Various Forms
Written by Mark
The school at Groton, CT (often called "Sub School”) is officially Basic Enlisted Submarine School (BESS). It typically lasts 7-8 weeks, six of which is actual schooling. BESS covers some crucial topics, namely fire-fighting and combating flooding. Enlisted nukes receive that specific training shortly after reporting to their first boat, but don't go to Groton for it, unless their boat is home-ported there. Each submarine base has a training department for that sort of training. Most of BESS is a very basic overview of submarine systems, which any nuke who has successfully completed prototype training will breeze through and readily pick up in the submarine qualification process.
The so-called ‘technical’ submarine ratings receive their A-school training after BESS, and can last up to eight months. These include:
- the SECF group of Electronics Techs (all varieties),
- the Mechanics (torpedomen and auxiliarymen),
- and the Missile Techs (found only on boomers).
Since all those A-schools (except Missile Tech C-school) are also in Groton, many folks mistakenly assume they are part of BESS.
‘Non-technical’ submarine ratings, such as yeomen, logistics specialists, and culinary specialists, complete their A-schools before going to Groton. They attend BESS alongside their technical-rated shipmates and report to a boat upon its completion.
“Nucs” or “Nukes” (those who operate the reactor and propulsion plant) comprise about one-third of a submarine's enlisted crew and never attend BESS. They report to a boat after completing A-school and nuclear power school (both in Goose Creek, SC); then plant prototype training in either Goose Creek or Ballston Spa, NY.
Officers also go to a sub school exclusively for them (there's both a basic and an advanced), abbreviated as SOBC, and SOAC respectively. After completing the officer side of the nuclear pipeline, they apparently find the basic course to be a nice vacation prior to reporting to their first boat. The main reason officers, but no enlisted nukes attend a separate sub school is because they must receive an introduction to the unique ship-handling issues of a submarine - since only officers ever "have the conn," or give orders to "drive" the boat.
Attaining dolphins (qualifying on submarines), contrary to popularly held belief does not qualify a submariner to do everything on a boat. Modern day submarines are too complex for that - the enlisted submarine qual simply means they have the "broad strokes."
“Classing up” is the process of waiting for enough personnel to arrive at a training site, so that a minimum required class size is met and schooling can begin.
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
