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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 ⚓️.

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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

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Comment by Sharon ~ K's Mom on April 6, 2011 at 3:30pm: Jeanne, that is so cool!! Yeah, who you have thought many years later he would be standing once again at that beach!! I love stuff like this!! I too, always stop and "look" when I am supposed to be cleaning and getting rid of. Kevin is always after me when I do things like this, I tend to keep too much. :)

Comment by Lizzie's Mom Ship 03/Div 367 on April 6, 2011 at 2:31pm: Jeanne - Wow! How very cool! Did you show your sailor?

Comment by Kris, Stevens mom on April 6, 2011 at 1:51pm: sherri - I think the villas your son is talking about are actual beach "houses" (they look like Villas-just like you'd see in a movie). When I was there last summer we went to Folly Beach & the whole beach & road into the "touristy town" were lined with house, etc that can be rented. They look beautiful & are on the beach but I'm thinking they maybe very pricy.

Comment by nvmomma on April 6, 2011 at 1:48pm: "Like" button, Drama. :)

Comment by DramaboysMom on April 6, 2011 at 1:16pm: Ok... Directionally challenged.... I have the "grid" as my dad and my boys call it, in my head. I can see the map, comes easy for me. I have no sense of Time. None... Hubby has sense of time but can't find his way out of a paper bag. The joke when the boys were little " If mom and dad are driving out of state and Mom is driving and Dad is asleep, we will get there no problem, but not as fast.. Dad is lousy at navigating. If Dad is driving and mom is asleep, we will drive 3 hours fast in the wrong direction."

My hubby even told my dad one time "Listen to your daughter about the directions. She is always right! " I think I have that date stuck in a journal somewhere.... quite a compliment from a man!

Comment by Kat (MM Nuke) on April 5, 2011 at 11:38pm: Sherri, the 2 bedroom villa, on base, cost us $350 for the week. A great deal. If they have something else near the beach, and less money, go for that. Base is nice though, and nice to be so close.

Comment by mommajo on April 5, 2011 at 11:03pm: Oops, Sherri, The Villas we talk about are the ones on base; duplexes/apartments turned into visitor habitat. Let us know about the ones nearer the beach!

Comment by mommajo on April 5, 2011 at 11:01pm: So true about navigation. When we had to take one of our kids to the Denver Children's Hospital I called for directions...the lady told me left at Sinclair station, 3 block the right at McDonalds... Thanked her for the great directions and I thought I could get my husband there. "Oh dear, your husband is driving...go south at mile sign 31 for 0.3 miles then turn east..." MEN!

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.