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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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: 15 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!

NPTU OMBUDSMAN TEAM (4/2024)

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Comment by Sherri_M on April 5, 2011 at 10:49pm: yep...not good with the north, east, south, west...I can follow a map, but don't go and say, go north or east....give me a street name and landmarks or a map!!

Question now...the villas you all are talking about..are these the ones on base? they use to be base housing or dorms or something and turned them into places the guys can rent or would these be some where else? My son told us about villas off base--close to the beach for like a hundred a week...justwondering...he says they are pretty nice....will definately be checking into them when we go...gonna have to find a long weekend soon to take a trip down there!

Comment by Michimom (MM Nuke Mom) on April 5, 2011 at 10:15pm: No, javajo, we haven't been down to see our son yet. He was home for Christmas, then graduated A school the end of January. It didn't seem to make sense to go see him then when we had just seen him about a month before (not that I would have minded!). We were going to see him the first weekend of May, for my birthday, but then figured the long weekend for the holiday the end of May made more sense. I can hardly wait!

I think a big part of the reason why I'm OK with waiting until then is Skype! Love to be able to see my sailor when I talk with him. Phone calls aren't as good.

On the direction front--I'm pretty good about east, west, etc., but probably because my car has a compass! But, I really like to know whether it's on my right or left, 'cuz I sure don't have an internal compass.

Comment by javajo50 (MM Power School 1103) on April 5, 2011 at 8:30pm: Michimom~ Have fun in GC!! Have you been down to see your son yet? I'm sure you'll enjoy the weather :)

Comment by NavyMomLG on April 5, 2011 at 6:54pm: Very interesting Amanda. I read something similar about the differences between men and women regarding mapping in the latest issue of Women's Adventure magazine.

Comment by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on April 5, 2011 at 6:54pm: amanda- I love the nerdiness. :) How extremely interesting...

Comment by amanda on April 5, 2011 at 6:47pm: Ok so I wasn't going to be the nerd, but I do gender research in Psychology and A LOT of studies have noticed that females go by landmarks and males go by internal compass. Back when we were cave people, females needed to pick berries to eat and would end up wandering all over looking for them and males just needed to go to the grazing land of animals to hunt. Therefore, females go by landmarks and males go by cardinal directions.

Comment by NavyMomLG on April 5, 2011 at 6:44pm: If you are interested, I started a discussion on trips to GC this summer. Thought it would be fun to share our plans and experiences in one place. Wanted to mention it because I know I don't always look above at the discussion section.

Comment by MichPad(STA21 Officer Mom) on April 5, 2011 at 6:32pm: Will be in GC for Memorial Day too. My sons fiance's family will be staying at The Villas, we are staying at Wild Dunes where he will be getting married. Can't wait to see SC, he says it's beautiful!!

Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on April 5, 2011 at 6:11pm: Michmom & dodie - I visited over memorial day & it was great weather, beach was nice too!

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on April 5, 2011 at 5:53pm: My mom and I have always loved to go on short 1 - 3 day "adventures". When the kids were younger, we'd pile 3 or 4 kids (depending on which cousins wanted to go or if they were fostering at the time) and off we'd go. Went to Graceland and all over Memphis for a couple of days and Lord help us, we kept ending up in a very bad part of Memphis because I kept making the wrong turns because she kept telling me when to turn. It was a BLAST, we still joke about it. Except, that at one point, my mom tried to be funny and told me to stop at a "cathouse" to ask directions.

When we got home after our adventure, my dad and my hubby were quizzing the kids about what we did (Graceland, zoo, etc). When they were asked where we stayed, my sailor said, "Oh, Ma told Mama to just stop at a cathouse".