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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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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 ⚓️.

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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

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USPS "If it fits, it ships" - link to order boxes: USPS If it fits, it ships

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Comment by 3B'smom on January 27, 2020 at 7:55pm: Islandgirl - check into Southwest Airlines if you can. They seem to be the most flexible in terms of having to change travel dates. Whatever airline you go with, make you know their policy before purchasing. Graduations are always a cross your fingers kind of situation. Welcome to the Navy! Semper Gumby!

Comment by Islandgirl on January 27, 2020 at 7:19pm: Sorry about the incomplete message.
Do you pay extra for changeable airline tickets or do you just purchase and pray???

Comment by Islandgirl on January 27, 2020 at 7:17pm: So, all seems well with F now. She’s started the mechanics school portion and is pretty sure she will graduate with her shipmates. We believe that is the first Friday of March. She left Great Lakes on October 24. Does anyone pay the extra $$$ for a changeable or ref

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on January 27, 2020 at 6:44pm: Welcome to our newest member ~Socalmomto3! Please be sure to read the ***NEW MEMBERS*** info at the top of the page. Lots of good info there. Also take a look at the Pages (19) to the right under the member profiles - be sure to hit "view all". And of course, feel free to ask any questions you may have.

And we are neighbors - I'm in Riverside and my mom lives in Beaumont ;-D

Comment by Canuka on January 27, 2020 at 6:13pm: ShipofDoodles - I should know more for you after this weekend. I just got the A-school version of the "I'm a sailor" call because he passed "comp" this morning. So we are headed back to GC for Friday's graduation. My boy sounds so much better, relaxed and happy, than I have heard or seen in a long time. His class is not getting leave now, it is too soon after the December stand-down.
Are there any other Moms with kids in this class?

Comment by Chipmunk on January 27, 2020 at 6:12pm: B'sNukeMom - Raw emotion, I am sure. I wondered if you were Lakers fans. My grandmother was way back when, she has been gone for a long time, but she always cheered them on. Heartfelt thoughts and prayers for the families.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on January 27, 2020 at 5:35pm: Chipmunk - our family is huge Laker Fans (husband even has a personalized Laker license plate - along with an entire Lake memorabilia room). B grew up watching Kobe play and has a Kobe jersey. It hit close to home to say the least. It's just so very sad for all the families involved.

This was a picture from 2011 when we got to go see the Championship trophies.

Comment by Chipmunk on January 27, 2020 at 3:22pm: ShipOfDoodles - Yes, your son should have about 10 days of leave allowed. That seems to have been the normal - my son's class was the exception!! And I concur with ProudOfK on the 4 pm of graduation day. My son also stayed with us at the motel. We always stayed at the Days Inn there on Red Banks Road. It was the closest, cheapest and had breakfast. I didn't mind but my husband wasn't as happy, but I learned my lesson the hard way a long time ago, staying too far away from where I needed to be. I have the Wyndham rewards and after 3 graduations, plus motels on the way out and back, we had some free nights. Others have rewards programs also.

Comment by ProudOfK on January 27, 2020 at 2:25pm: ShipOfDoodles - when my so graduated A school he was able to leave the base with me and stayed with me at the hotel that night. My understanding is that their official leave actually started at something like 4 pm on graduation day. Some have flown out earlier but technically should not fly out until after that. Unless something has really change you should be just fine with Saturday flights.

Comment by ShipOfDoodles on January 27, 2020 at 2:09pm: Chipmunk: Thank you for the input! My son told me yesterday they are scheduled to graduate April 3 with leave up until (he believes), the 14th. Barring hurricanes, flooding, or setbacks, I am going to go ahead and make a reservation (ouch$$), and am hoping we will be able to leave and start home on Saturday instead of Sunday. He would ride home with us and fly back, and I am hoping for a two night stay, not three. (I can always hope, right? :-))

Regarding the Kobe Bryant news...a friend posted (credit Instagram@crimebydesign:

Leaving your home and getting back safely is such an underrated blessing.

Many of us have known the suffocating pain of sudden loss. May all of you, and your loved ones make it home safely.