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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

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:

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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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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NUKE moms

A place to come for support and guidance for anyone with a loved one in the nuke program ⚓️.

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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 bethr311 on May 21, 2013 at 6:54pm
My son mentioned the suicide in his call last night. My heart aches for that family.
Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 21, 2013 at 6:28pm

It's really, really sad to hear about the suicides....we must continue to provide encouragement and support to our kids no matter what and let them know that even if for some reason they don't make it in the nuke program IT WILL BE OK.

I can't even begin to imagine the pain this sailor must have been experiencing to feel that his only out was to take his own life.....prayers going out to his family and friends.

 

Comment by maureenwithfive on May 21, 2013 at 2:36pm

From what I can tell, most military training programs are designed to separate the wheat from the chaff.

It was that way for my husband when he went through 12 weeks of Army Basic Training, when he went to the Army Intelligence Center and School, and when he went to NCO school.

The military is all about competition - but I don't think it's any worse than if our kids went out of state to college at a high-ranking school like MIT.  At least in the military they become a part of the Navy's family, where as at someplace like MIT, they're just another face in the crowd.

Comment by William in Nashua on May 21, 2013 at 1:15pm

  The nuclear training program seems intended to make people crack while in the pipeline, those who are liable to crack that is.     There were a number of suicides and deadly accidents while my son was in training both in Goose Creek and Ballston Spa.  I am not saying the accidents were stress related but they lost good people either way.   Maybe it has been this way always  it is definitely possible for a person to have good grades in Power School and still not be able to hack it  when he gets to prototype.

Comment by kayinaz on May 21, 2013 at 10:43am

Prayers going out for the family of this young man and his friends.  A very sad time for them all.

Sad Statistics-

US military suicide rate 2012

US Army – 182 suicides

US Marines Corps – 48 suicides

US Navy – 60 suicides

US Air Force – 59 suicides

The average suicide rate in the US military – 24 suicides per 100,000 soldiers – is lower than the civilian suicide rate for men aged 17 to 60 – 25 suicides per 100,000 in 2010.

The latest US military suicide statistics for 2011 suggest that a suicidal soldier is usually an unmarried white man under the age of 25.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on May 21, 2013 at 10:10am

When my son was in GC there were 2 or 3 suicides in a relatively short length of time. When I was speaking to him about it he said we don't hear about the attempts that were not successful. They do create a stressful environment for our sailors b/c they don't want people in a critical situation they can't handle once they are in the fleet. Still, a tragic waste of a young life. God bless our sailors!

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on May 21, 2013 at 10:06am

My niece is a nurse practitioner just north of where the tornadoes hit so bad yesterday in OK. That whole area is devastated by what happened. Here in NE we get quite a few tornadoes but this kind of tragic loss of life, esp. of children, is thankfully very rare. Prayers and loving thoughts to all the people who are suffering there. Let's make sure we all remember how capricious chance is. That could be any one of us.

Comment by cathy on May 21, 2013 at 9:55am

Dear Sandra - As painful as it is, this is not the first suicide.  Our sailors are actually briefed  in warning signs to look for potential suicides.  As far as I know, there were 2 suicides while my son was in Power School.  He also wound up bringing in a friend that had totally lost it and was in crisis.  This really rattled my son.  I asked him if they received counseling for all this.  He told me "Not really".  This concerned me as I knew how upset my son was along with others. 

Power School is hard enough as it is.  The stress is tremendous and I suppose it is just too much for some.  More should be done in these situations.  I suppose by the time training is complete they will all have toughened up quite a bit.

The Chaplain is always available and willing to listen.  Although my son is not religious he has gone and spoken to him a couple of times.  My son tells me he  is a great listener and gives great advice.  He is worth going to see.

Comment by Sandra MM Nuke Mom on May 21, 2013 at 9:28am

So I was just informed from my daughter that my sailor son had a classmate in his Power school class that committed suicide on Sunday.  He's pretty torn up about it as are many others in his class.  My question, is there help for the sailors in these types of situations?  And does the school take into account this type of situation regarding upcoming tests?

Comment by britefuture on May 21, 2013 at 8:00am
Cybermom- That's so funny. My son laughs everytime that I tell him information before he learns of it. He says it makes him feel like we, us Moms, have their rooms bugged and have spies living among them, lol. I reiterated the old adage, "Moms always find out". Lol

No one has said it yet, so I'll throw it out there. My heart goes out to all of the families that were affected by that horrible storm yesterday, in Oaklahoma. I can not imagine their pain. I sat here crying thinking, "how selfish I am for missing my son so much and shedding so many tears". At least I can text, call or write to my kids. (I also have a daughter that has left the nest) Those families don't even get a chance to watch their babies grow. Ugh. How very sad.
 
 
 

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