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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!

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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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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 elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on June 29, 2011 at 6:18pm

Emily,  As an educator and a parent of an adult child with learning disabilites I might see it a little different than you.  Not everyone who graduates HS with a diploma will be educated the same.  Do they deserve the diploma?  A hefty ? to say the least.  It all depends on what their ability to learn is and what they have been able to grasp and apply depending upon their level of applied intelligence.  And then there is the whole emptional intelligence quota that I tell you is right up at the top of my list today!!!!!  My daughter has a really high IQ but she has auditory and visual dyslexia.  She is uber samrt at Math but reading and writing can be quite a challenge.  She can still get As in science and Math classes in College but I need to help her write her thoughts.  Emotionally intelligent she is.

Relationships, holding full time jobs while going to school and budgeting and saving money are her strong points!!!  My son can ace any test with little effort but relationships and money give him a run for his money.  (Love the pun :)  ) 

I wrote this about an hour ago but have been too busy to post it.  Now I read the other posts and I just want to add...Emily, no need to apologize...this is online posting and a lot is lost on that fact alone.  You are fine with me.

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on June 29, 2011 at 6:08pm

Thanks nancyjo!  We stand in awe of him all the time.  I have always said that God gave us Joe not so that we could teach him but so that we could learn from him!  He was actually an "experiment" when he started high school.  They'd never had a student that was "special ed" from the age of 3 and stand up to the entire high school system to remove himself from special ed classes.  He tried out for the basketball team in junior high and by God's grace, he broke his left hand (the only one that works) before the final tryouts.  Saved the coach from breaking my son's and his own heart by having to cut him!  PS  he broke his hand rapelling then went white water rafting the same day!

 

He doesn't drive, may never!  But he volunteers at church, builds Adirondack furniture (when he's of a mind to) is an assistant scout master among other things.  He's a good guy, an extreme Patriot, and the proudest older brother on the planet.

 

Do I sound proud enough of my 2 boys? 

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on June 29, 2011 at 6:01pm
Emily - no need to apologize!!!  I rely on your input constantly and am very impressed with your intelligence and maturity!!
Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 29, 2011 at 5:57pm

I'm sorry if I stepped on any toes! Didn't mean to.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 29, 2011 at 5:45pm

TN, you are absolutely right.  But you have to want to succeed and be willing to do whatever it takes.  Einstein failed regular school.   My nephew took technical training in non-destructive something or other and spent his first two years working for an oil company in the Virgin Is. He makes a good living and is getting married.  A person can succeed if they have the will.

PS I bet your oldest is just the best.  And he is living up to his potential b/c of the family he was blessed to be born to. Good job!

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on June 29, 2011 at 5:31pm

I just have to chime in here.  My older son has cerebral palsy, and is "right hemiplegic".  He is an Eagle Scout, a one armed NRA Certified Youth Shooting Sports Coach.  Has been a Boy Scouts of America camp counselor for 12 years (he's 25).  He CANNOT pass math comprehension examinations, he CANNOT pass reading comprehension examinations.  He absorbs and understands verbal information but does not have the brain power to retain the written word in a timely fashion.  He was in his high school Air Force ROTC and rose to the rank of Captain and received the Tuskegee Airman Award.

 

He graduated with a diploma.  He had a lot of help from teachers/tutors to get that diploma, otherwise he would have received a "certificate of completion" of high school (worthless).  He may never be able to hold a "significant" job.  He may always live at home with us and may always be in his younger brother's shadow.  That's a huge part of why my sailor wanted to go into the military from the 9th grade and waited to DEP until he was 20, he did NOT want to step on his brother's dreams.

 

I am beyond indebted to the teachers/tutors who helped my son earn that Diploma, his spirit would have been absolutely crushed by a "certificate".

 

We don't all learn the same way and absorb the same information and everyone deserves to be the best that THEY can be.  My dad had to BUY a term paper, re-write it and turn it in when he was a senior in high school, just to graduate.  He is now retired from 2 jobs, works part time 2 days a week and received a civilian "top secret" security clearance to work at the Savannah River Nuclear plant.  And that man can't spell for crap and sucks at math!!!

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 29, 2011 at 4:00pm

He can read. And do vocational training. But he just can't get his head around these math skills to pass that portion. Sounds like they had him working with a tutor (a super nice older guy who used to teach at the high school). He said the last thing they were working on is long multiplication and division. Okay, I realize I was in a gifted program, but we learned that in the 5th grade. 5TH GRADE. And he was given the same diploma I was. 

I seriously dislike the public school systems. It's the main reason why I didn't do an education major. I love kids, and I love teaching, and I love helping others. But I hate the education system and that people just push these kids through without them actually learning something. 

All I can hope for at this point is that I can help him enough so he can pass his ASVAB and get some sort of job in the military that he wants.

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on June 29, 2011 at 3:53pm
My son has already bought a car down there without me and now he wants to trade it in.  He wants a much lower loan rate.  Therefore he wants me to cosign.  I have no problem doing that.  I know he can make the payments.  I just think he wants more of a car than he needs since it will be parked for so long during deployments.
Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on June 29, 2011 at 3:49pm
Well, Emily, you are right about that.  Can he read?  Can he do vocational training?  I'm not an educator but I work for a school system.  They graduate everybody unless the kid decides to drop out regardless of their skills.  They also don't retain except in extreme circumstances. At some point, any job is better than no job.
Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on June 29, 2011 at 3:38pm
Nancy- I realize that not everyone are learners. But he can't even pass the test to get in. Period. Regardless of rate. It's just super sad to me to see that the high school has failed to give him the necessary skills to succeed. A diploma doesn't mean anything if he can't even get a job...
 
 
 

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