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

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 22 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 nvmomma on July 12, 2011 at 6:54pm: Sounds cozy, Emily. I think you need to pack a few more activities in, you're not nearly busy enough. ;) Have fun!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on July 12, 2011 at 6:45pm: You guys are so busy on here I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch up! I just finished my 8 hour drive home from Missouri. Now to unpack, do laundry, and pack again. We (my mom and I) leave for Washington at 4am on Thursday morning! :/ And apparently we're staying at my brother (and sister-in-law)'s 1 bedroom apartment! Ahhh! It's going to be crowded! haha

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on July 12, 2011 at 6:36pm: William...up to now my son did not have the choice to not eat at the galley. Now he can keep his pay to eat off base.

Funny about the Windham.

Binker's Mom hasn't replied about the rest of her comment and I rely on you all for info.

Comment by William in Nashua on July 12, 2011 at 6:22pm: CANavyMom somebody was pulling your son's leg I think. Respectfully, coming to Goose Creek as a former "recruit petty officer" doesn't mean squat to the A school staff once you graduate boot camp, Lol. So, it sounds like a whopper. If you think about it -- all that time they were "recruit petty officers" at boot camp they were not even sailors yet they were still recruits. Everyone has to start at Stage 1 in A school.

freebirds6819 I concur the Wyndham N. Charleston is a nice hotel one thing to keep in mind it is on the campus of a Christian school and they censor the cable TV Lol. I am serious. They do not offer HBO because it is too racy. I was kind of shocked by that. Other than that it was great,

Comment by William in Nashua on July 12, 2011 at 6:10pm: Thanks elizabeth77 I stand corrected on that.

Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on July 12, 2011 at 6:07pm: freebirds6819 - thats a nice hotel I stayed there for power school graduation.

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on July 12, 2011 at 6:00pm: CAnavymom - don't believe skipping to phase 2 is possible. My sailor (last year) was held up in THU waiting for orders to Goose Creek. He was in THU long enough to phase up there to civvies and extra liberty. Got to Goose Creek and he had to start all over at Phase 1.

Comment by swim4life on July 12, 2011 at 5:48pm: CAnavymom,

hate to say it, but I don't think that's true. Sounds like something one of the more experienced sailors/nukes might say to the "new guy" to see if he would believe it. Guess that does go on a little bit. They are shipmates, brothers (and sisters) in the Navy. If in doubt, have him ask a chief or SLPO...someone that will give him factual information.

Comment by CAnavymom(MMN) on July 12, 2011 at 4:17pm: I have a question for all of you...my son said in his last letter, he was told that since he was on ship staff in BC he would automatically start at Phase 2 in A school. I don't know who told him that...and he just said he hoped it was true. Anyone know??

Comment by FREEBIRD6819 OCT 8TH BOOTCAMP on July 12, 2011 at 2:27pm: OK HELP .. MY SON IS IS JUST ENDED PHASE 1 IN A SCHOOL..I HAVE MADE AIR RESERVATIONS TO GO SEE HIM ON AUG 5TH WEEKEND FOR HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY .. IM STAYING IN NORTH CHARLESTON AT A WHYNDAM HOTEL.. IS THERE ANY RULES I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ?