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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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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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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

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Comment by Michimom (MM Nuke Mom) on March 28, 2011 at 7:43am: Diana, love the tough love vs. mushy love comment. We gave our son the tough love when he was home, and now he can get the mushy love!

Well, I have to take something I said back. Since my son found out that his uncle wants him to be an usher at his wedding in October, my son said he'd prefer to wear his dress blues instead of spending the money to rent a tux. I think it's a combination of him being more comfortable wearing his dress blues a lot (well, at least at GC) and not wanting to spend the money to rent a tux. He's definitely carrying on mom and pop's thriftiness!

Comment by Diana AZ NavyMom on March 27, 2011 at 11:55pm: Have read and laughed my way through all the stories. So good to have other moms with similar problems with their kids. One of the reason I felt so strongly about cleaning my son's room was I wanted to make sure he understood how important it was for him to succeed in the Navy. He was just a few months short of getting kicked out of the house before he enlisted and then we had to wait another 9 months for him to leave for boot camp. Don't get me wrong, he is pleased with his decision now and we love him so much and are very proud of him. He just needs a little more tough love than mushy love right now. :-)

Comment by MN Mom of MM on March 27, 2011 at 11:48pm: My sailors broken TKD boards are all safe here too. Marked with a date and what belt he moved up to. The belts folded and secure on a special made rack. I do plan to give the walls a coat of paint before he comes home on leave the end of April. And am believing at that time he will go throught the closet/drawers/shelves and make decisions on the future of his stuff. The school dist. I work for has spring break all week, and I have a list a mile long of what I want to see done. Have a great week ladies.

Comment by Connie foaling-lady (Groton) on March 27, 2011 at 11:42pm: Cleaning my son's room wasn't an issue ... once he joined DEP (for a year, while he was a senior in h.s.) he became very military/tidy. But FIXING the room, whew baby, that was something ... after he left, we pulled down the posters (of ships and places around the world) which he had duct-taped --- there's that duct tape/sailor thing again!! -- and that did a number on the walls. Also there was the matter of several large holes behind the posters (surprise!).from hockey pucks (ditto the washer and dryer in the basement, and the garage doors!!!). Now his room is beeyootifulll, with a quilt on the bed made from his hockey jerseys, a Navy flag, and perfect walls.

Comment by bobbysproudmom on March 27, 2011 at 9:50pm: I must be the weirdest mom here--Before my son left for BC he went and bought a bunch of those big plastic storage bins to sort and store his stuff--It upset me-had to ask him "why are you doing all that? You're coming back!" He's my youngest-hard to let go.

Navymomx3-My sons broken TKD boards are safe here too! Along with each framed belt certificate hanging on the wall.

Kate-You are a Nuke Mom-no need to go AWOL :)

Comment by NavyMomLG on March 27, 2011 at 9:38pm: Love the cleaning stories. Mine is slightly different - my son lived with his Dad before BC, so I don't have any of his stuff. I got my daughter's stuff at my house. She moved into her own apartment in January and she still has stuff here. Each time she comes over I send more with her, but something else appears! I guess I had stuff at my Dad's house until he sold it and moved into a Senior apartment, so this issue is timeless!

Comment by elizabeth77(USS SAN FRANCISCO) on March 27, 2011 at 6:31pm: WOW...reading all the posts for the day and they are so relevant. I cleaned my son's room right after he left for boot camp. I told him he had to do all his laundry and straighten it up. THen I went in with the heavy guns and cleaned it the way I always hoped it would be. Now there are still some clothes there, that way when he comes home on leave he doesn't always have to bring everything. I left the sports momentos and organized his stuff. Threw away some stuff, not much. It doubles as a guest room and his room. You can still clearly see it's his room.

Just to put my two cents in...I hope no one leaves this group. I don't plan on it!

Comment by hikermom on March 27, 2011 at 6:20pm: I'm not the only one! I BEGGED my son to clean out his room. Guess when he started??? Three hours before he left (and this was after waiting 9 months for BC) so he didn't get very far! I tried to do it while he was in BC but I couldn't. I ended up boxing things after BC and made a lot of calls asking him what he wanted to save. The room is a guest room now but all the posters and momentos are still on the walls and shelves. Maybe down the road I'll do more.

Comment by BunkerQB on March 27, 2011 at 5:55pm: My son's room is a shrine. We're never getting rid of anything. His posters are still up on the wall along with his commissioning letter. His legos are neatly boxed and sorted in 10 separated plastic containers w dividers. Favorite down comforter on the bed. Cable TV ready to turn on to his favorite sports program. His books organized on shelves. Everything just the way he likes it.

You gals are really heartless! hehehe hahahha LOL. :)

Comment by Sherri_M on March 27, 2011 at 5:07pm: Connie, never heard that before...thanks! Will have to tell him to do this! And I will have to remember it too for the next time!

Kate...I personally think you should stay...I'm sure there are many things you could share with us newer moms like me! My son is graduating A school this Friday, so I still have a while in GC--at least power school, not sure where he'll be for prototype but he was told he'd be on at least a 6 month hold after power...but still, I think you should stay!!!!

As for the cleaning..yep, same boat here...I had to clean....he told me to get rid of whatever I wanted...and to keep whatever I wanted..so much help! He did have a few things (clothes) he wanted me to send him and I have another little bit here, but not sure it will fit him...last time he was home everything was way to big...

As for the doctor...I guess we'll see how he feels when he's here and then go from there....will try the trick Connie mentioned though!