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:

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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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.)

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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

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NUKE moms

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

Members: 2694
Latest Activity: 6 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 FRIDAYRed 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 Emily-aaronsgirl11 on August 5, 2011 at 5:16pm

Welcome to Nuke Moms, illysha! Glad you found us. :)

Any letter this week? :)

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on August 5, 2011 at 4:07pm
Welcome ilysha10! Glad to have you here. You won't believe what gets talked about around here. Just you wait....it's great!
Comment by illysha10(dylan'swife) on August 5, 2011 at 4:05pm
Hello everyone! My husband is in bootcamp right now. He's a future Nuke! so proud of him and so happy to be here on N4M!! :)
Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on August 5, 2011 at 12:47pm

Bandito's Mom- It is possible for her to find a job without working EVERY single weekend. There are girls down there that do it. Andddd, there are girls that don't work. At all. Ever. It is possible to live off of just the sailor's income. For myself, I know I would have to keep a job to keep from going crazy. But my point is, even if she has to work a weekend or two, it wouldn't be the end of the world. At the end of the day, they'll still be together under the same roof. 

Sorry, maybe I should keep my mouth shut on this topic. I tend to be a little biased. I get so angry at wives who complain that they don't get enough time to spend with their husbands when I don't even have time to talk to mine most days.

Comment by BunkerQB on August 5, 2011 at 11:57am

This one will kill you guys. A family friend has a son w genius level IQ. During college he got a summer job as an intern with a little start up. He would have been employee number 15 or 18. But he was very, very arrogant about how to do things and things had to be done his way.  We have known this kid since he was 2. He was the most difficult child to be around. Tantrums like you wouldn't believe.  You guess it - $OO$LE. 

I went to a meet and greet last weekend. A number of nuke moms (Kathy and Cal Sailor Mom). Yup - the kids are interchangeable.

Comment by Rebecky32 on August 5, 2011 at 11:54am
I'm going to Ballston Spa a week from today to spend 11 days with my sailor! : )
Comment by Heather(labellaleigh) - ETwife on August 5, 2011 at 11:36am
Bandito's Mom - Weekends were the only time I was able to really spend time with Sailor. He would be in school Monday-Thursday from 4:30am to 3pm or 10pm (depending on the study hours), Fridays were his 'short' days and would be home by 2pm. Saturdays would be considered his 'off day' and Sundays he would go in for his study hours, even if he finished his hours before the weekend. Sailor's study hours would be different every few weeks, depending on how he did on his tests. If he didn't do well, they would up his hours (which made no sense to me because that meant less sleep for him). When they had 'group' studies, he did his best and only had 2 hour mandatory study hours a day (15 hours study hours for the week). But then they took that away when there were no rooms available and started to have trouble. While in Digital, the instructor they had made it difficult for everyone, so even if you have a 3.5 GPA or above, no one was safe. Then when he went to take IC&E, his instructor was amazing and he began to pass everything. This is why I believe no matter how easy or hard the material is, the instructors makes all the difference!
Comment by quiltblue on August 5, 2011 at 11:26am
Bandito's Mom... she will need to find any job she can. Tell her to live her life as best as she is able, the perks will be there when she is off and he is off and awake. I remember the early days of my marriage when my husband was in class all day 9.30am to 4pm and worked as a security guard from 6pm to 3am... slept from 4am to 9am. We managed for the first year on this schedule only because I worked 7.30am until 3pm.  Good thing he could do his studying at work or we wouldn't have had any private time!
Comment by Bandito's Mom on August 5, 2011 at 11:01am
Labellaleigh wife, My DIL is trying to get transferred to a retail outlet.  But she is worried about working retail as she would probably have to work weekends.   She was thinking weekends are the only time she may get to see SR during A school and Power school.  Reading the crazy T-track schedule, I wonder if her assumption is right.  How much did you get to see your husband during A school?
Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on August 5, 2011 at 10:20am
Mary- I can't believe your son booked a plane that early for PS Grad!! A school grad I could totally see. But Power School grad can take several hours!! And the traffic afterwards is a lil ridiculous. Good luck to him in catching that plane! I will be SUPER impressed if he catches it!!
 
 
 

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