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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

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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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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NUKE moms

A place to come for support and guidance for anyone with a loved one in the nuke program ⚓️.

Members: 2694
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 FRIDAYRed Shirt Friday

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

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Discussion Forum

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prototype housing

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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 26, 2019 at 6:13pm

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Awesome Weekend

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 26, 2019 at 6:11pm

Know Weigh - I responded to some of your questions in a pm.  And like I explained - we do have many on here who have sub sailors so you should be able to get some answers from them. Don't be afraid to ask away!  And yes, you are lucky with your son being stationed in San Diego.  B was on the Truman and was in Norfolk - we did get to visit a couple of times though and that was nice (a little humid for me but hey, I got to see my son!).  We will definitely have to get together.  Once I get through August I'll have more time and we can schedule a meet up.

Comment by Know Weigh on July 26, 2019 at 3:29pm

I'm new here, but not so new to being a nuke mom. My son finished up prototype training a few months ago and got his first choice of duty stations....which happens to be only a couple of hours away! So....YAY!

I was ecstatic when he got stationed nearby, but he cautioned me that it wouldn't mean that much in terms of seeing him because they spend so much time underway. Still, I am so grateful that when not out to sea, he is only a 2 hour car ride away. His weekend visits, while not as frequent as I would like, are greatly appreciated and cherished. Am I lucky, or what?

Before I joined navy for moms, I lurked here frequently and this forum was a great source of information while my son was in Nuke School. Thank you to all of you that. And thank you to B'sNukeMoM, and others for welcoming me to the forum.

Comment by KayCee on July 26, 2019 at 3:26pm

helena2000 - thank you for sharing!

TODAY is exactly two years since my son left for Bootcamp!  In ways, the time has flown by and in other ways not so much.  In the beginning when I heard that this pipeline is a rollercoaster, I didn't realize exactly what that meant - but now... I completely and truly understand!!

The support from this site and all of you wonderful Mom's (and Dad's, grandma's, wives, girlfriends, etc...) has been so helpful in powering through the rough times, and an excellent place to share the good times!  Thanks more than you know!

Similarly as some, when my son was in DEP we were told he would have about six months.  Turns out it was only about two and a half months before he actually left for bootcamp.  I remember the anxious feeling in my gut when we found out my time was cut short.  ...And now two years later - it's been a whirlwind.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 26, 2019 at 1:12pm

Helena - yes, thank goodness for technology!  Occasionally I'll watch the livestream of a PIR just to remember what it was like.  I'm glad you & your husband were able to watch PIR and it's nice that other family members were able to spend time with your sailor.  Hopefully you can make a visit to GC while he's there.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on July 26, 2019 at 12:50pm

Helena I loved your story. We don't always get things exactly as we want them but in the end it's all about our kids. The day was special for your sailor and even though he didn't have you and your husband there he did have people he loved to share the day. Many sailors don't have their parents there. Today's technology helps so much from what I recall as a child and my brother off in the navy during the Vietnam war. None of us went to his BC grad but things were so different then. I'm grateful for what we have now.

Comment by Chipmunk on July 26, 2019 at 12:42pm

helena2007 - Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad to hear your son is settling in at A school!

Comment by helena2000 on July 26, 2019 at 12:34pm

I was disappointed that I wasn't able to travel to GL for his graduation because of health and financial reasons, but thankful that my parents and an aunt were able to be there and spend the afternoon with him and send me pictures and let me talk to him on their phone. He got to eat Chicago style pizza for the first time and sushi, one of his favorites. My mom gave me a detailed account, which was great. He left for the airport at 1 am the next morning, so it was a short visit even for them. Watching the graduation on livestream with my husband was very special as well. They had a thunderstorm during the ceremony, but it cleared up just in time for them to get out afterwards. At one point my parents' phone got knocked into a puddle and came apart and we were all relieved it didn't get damaged since that was our only link to him for that day, other than my aunt's phone, but she didn't go on base. The little things that can mean so much.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 26, 2019 at 12:13pm

Comment by helena2000 on July 26, 2019 at 12:12pm

This has gotten me thinking about my experiences with my son as well, since he got into the DEP back in Oct or Nov and a friend of the family has been in DEP for the Marines a little bit longer. My son was originally scheduled to leave around Sept. and the friend in April, so I thought I had all summer to spend with him. We're very close, like bosom buddies, and did everything we could together when not working (we even worked at the same retail location, so sometimes we even had breaks together there), like cooking healthy meals, walking or running together, watching Netflix and so on. Then in mid-April the recruiter told him they really needed to get nukes into the pipeline so they moved it up to leaving any day now. We both had to adjust quickly. He ended up leaving at the end of April Just before that they had moved the friend's departure back to September, so it was like it flipped and I felt a little resentful that I wouldn't have the summer with my son, but (somewhat grudgingly) glad for the friend's family to have more time with him. What's funny is that I half expected my son to be really different after BC, but he's still my precious one-of-a-kind guy, just getting settled into A school right about now. He still calls me for little things sometimes, and now that I have more access to calling or texting him, I'm not so desperately sad and missing him as much.

 
 
 

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