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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

Members: 2692
Latest Activity: 13 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 GodBlessAmerica on November 25, 2012 at 5:00pm: Connie, I agree. Sometimes our guys don't want to show their sentimental side. However, when he has grandkids, oh the stories and pictures he'll be able to share!

Comment by reneec on November 25, 2012 at 3:40pm: Hope everyone had a great holiday! We just got back last night from Charleston where the weather was so nice and we had a great time with our son. We went to Ansons for Thanksgiving Dinner- it was really good! Then on Friday we went to Drayton Hall and shopped in downtown Charleston. we had lunch at the Tattooed Moose- we saw that on the food network and wanted to check it out. Great sandwiches! Now we are back to reality - snow and work. But only a month till he is home for christmas!

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on November 25, 2012 at 1:57pm: Thanks GBA! I do have a t-shirt that my son's boot camp division designed with the names of the RDCs and other guys in his group, so when it gets ratty-looking I will cut it apart and somehow use it in the scrapbook, too. My son has seen some of the scrapbook already and even though he teases me about how corny it is, I think he's secretly pleased that I'm doing it. I have one that my dad made -- he was a Seabee in the Navy 1950s -- with a leather binder that he created and b&w photos with old postcards too -- it's called Adak in the Aleutians and I never get tired of looking through it.

Comment by GodBlessAmerica on November 25, 2012 at 12:44pm: Connie, here is what they have on their webpage. Hopefully, this will jog some memories for you.

The proper format for recruit mailing addresses is:
SR LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MI
SHIP XXX DIV XXX
RECRUIT TRAINING COMMAND
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
GREAT LAKES IL 60088-XXXX

Comment by GodBlessAmerica on November 25, 2012 at 12:38pm: Connie, it would depend on the ship number that your son was in. If I remember correctly there were at least 12 ships, but I am thinking more like 17.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on November 25, 2012 at 11:18am: Nuke moms... does anybody remember the address of boot camp in GL? I am working on a scrapbook for my son and on the back page I'm listing the places he's been so far in his Navy career (GL, GC, BS). Next address will be Groton. Someday when he's a grandpa, maybe he'll travel down memory lane with his grandkids!

Comment by bethr311 on November 25, 2012 at 11:10am: tina41, we are here in SC leaving today too. I prayed earlier for the strength to leave him well and not cry where he can see me. He's coming home in a month anyway so I shouldn't boo hoo. We had beautiful weather and had a wonderful day at Patriots Point yesterday with our nuke sailor. He wore his uniform to get us all a discount and I was so proud of him I about burst. Safe travels to all.

Comment by tina41 on November 25, 2012 at 7:48am: good morning all!!

i pray everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving! i did. i am spending time with my sailor here in beautiful SC!! today is the last day. we head home tomorrow. im not looking forward to saying "see you later". it has been a wonderful visit and i am very, very, very, thankful for it!!!

heather---love the picture!

God had put us all here to support, encourage and be informative to each other. you all are a great bunch and i am thankful to God for all of you!!!

Comment by Jo1 on November 23, 2012 at 11:01am: We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my son who's been home this last week. Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Comment by MN Mom of MM on November 22, 2012 at 11:38pm: To all you wonderful Nuke Moms, and our few Dads, and to all the families of our sailors....I am very thankful for your lives. I thank God for His blessings and the freedom we enjoy in our country, which is because of our dedicated military past and present. I thank God also for His continued hedge of protection around our sailors and all branches of our military. I also pray for the leaders to make good, honest, and right decisions for our country.

God Bless you all. {{{HUGS}}}

Praying also for those on, or families connected to, the USS Eisenhower. I understand it is going to return home mid deployment before Xmas then back out to finish the deployment. My sailor graduates prototype in a week and reports to the Eisenhower Jan 2.

And.... I'm OH so thankful this part of the pipeline is done, and to be going to this graduation and driving home with sailor son.