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

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Latest Activity: 5 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 MomThatLovesHerSon on June 9, 2013 at 3:18pm: I have a question about Prototype school. Do the sailors get to choose Goose Creek or Ballston Spa? Or are they told which location they will be at for Prototype school?

Thanks!

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on June 9, 2013 at 2:19pm: MN Mom of MM, where are y'all meeting?

Comment by MN Mom of MM on June 8, 2013 at 11:54pm: Birthday greetings and wishes for a great day. I have the 20th reserved on my calendar. You ladies just let me know what time and where. mn linda expressed lnterest to join in the gathering so I will recheck with her. Excited to meet you all

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on June 8, 2013 at 10:01pm: I meant, please fill me in with information about A school at Goose Creek.

Thanks!

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on June 8, 2013 at 9:52pm: Hello all,

My son's PIR in Great Lakes was Fri 5/31/13. He flew to Goose Creek on Sat. 6/1/13, so he just went through his first week there. I have talked with him 3 or 4 times. It is so nice to be able to talk with him often!!

So veteran moms, fill me in with information about Goose Creek please.

Thanks!!

Comment by NF Mom on June 8, 2013 at 2:39pm: Speaking of more important things...

Happy birthday Dor :)

Comment by NF Mom on June 8, 2013 at 2:33pm: Re-enlistment does include a lot of variables, and considerations, most of them very important.

Some of the factors are less than earth moving however.

My son is sleeping in the next room. Home on a four day liberty for stand down after crew change.

I have heard from my husband he was trying to get his re-enlistment papers in before crew change. My sister In-Law said she thought he actually got "his papers" turned in by the deadline, but was not sure what "his papers" were.

The funny part was his motivation for making a short deadline, rather than waiting another month, when he was already working two shifts.

His Nuke ET Chief, and another ET he had been in the training pipeline with were turning in their papers and he thought it would be awesome if they could all three be sworn in at the same time...

Comment by susank on June 8, 2013 at 1:26pm: Happy Birthday Dor! Glad you had a great trip. That reenlisment question is a tough one to answer with lots of factors to take into consideration!

Comment by BunkerQB on June 8, 2013 at 12:54pm: Power school for officer is similar (NOT THE SAME) to power school for enlisted except for the degree of difficulty and breath of the material. The biggest complain is simply the amount of material to learn and the unrelenting pace. My son graduated with a degree in electrical engineering with lots of physics courses before going to Officer Candidate School. Within our family we have graduates from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UCSB, UCSD, Harvard, UCLA - all with degrees in engineering, math, physics, bio-chem. The nuke program for the officers is intense from the sheer volume of material to learn but second to MIT? in what way? in difficulty? challenging academically? Possibly. Nuke School for the enlisted second to the nuclear engineering program at MIT? Don't think so. I can't remember where that myth came. Broad statement can lead to misinterpretations. We should be proud of all the nukes who go thru the program but let's drop the ridiculous comparison to MIT.
There are a number of enlisted guys/gals who will find the nuke program fairly easy - I believe these individuals probably if they had been so inclined and if they had studied during high school would have gone to a top notch college in science & math. We have many incredibly intelligent enlisted guys who just didn't like the traditional academic track, in a traditional college/university atmosphere - to say nothing of the cost of tuition, room and board.

BQB

P. S. While my major was not in math or science, I got an A in calculus and a B in physics in college. My SAT score in math was over 700. I worked for a few years as a programmer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Many of my colleagues were graduates from the top institutions for math and science. These individuals are truly special in the math, science and engineering.