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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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Navy Speak

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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

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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: 16 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 BoyWonderMom on July 31, 2015 at 11:50am: Good morning everyone! Haven't been here lately.
Congrats to PattiP and B's Nuke on your birthday and anniversary, loved the wedding pics!
CO-Twin, wish I was your new neighbor, those cookies look amazing!
8isenuff, how happy your nuke sweetheart looks!
Dawn Renee, welcome! All the info and support you need is here.
AParents, my son is currently onboard CVN72. He's a MM3. What I remember from MM A School, nothing compares. My son did AP everything and
college before the Navy, without much effort. None of it mattered when Nuke school started. He said it wasn't extremely hard is the ton of info you need to retain on a daily basis.
I don't have much communication with my sailor this days. He's extremely busy at work. The carrier is in overhaul but the nukes work only on the reactor. He's been taking tests to finally get qualified. I will be going to VA in September for his 22nd birthday.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 31, 2015 at 11:28am: Hi all - Happy Friday!

8isenuff - so glad to see you got your computer fixed (we've missed you here!) - nice to hear what's been going on with your ET & MM!! Looks like your MM had a lot of fun with the ponies ;-) and congrats to your non-sailor on the degree - quite an accomplishment.

Welcome Dawn Renee!

Comment by Dawn Renee on July 31, 2015 at 11:16am: I am so glad that this group is here. My son just arrived to S.Carolina on the 25th so all of this is new to me. The information and input from you ladies is just such a huge help. Thanks again and have a great Friday!!

Comment by AParents on July 31, 2015 at 11:16am: Thanks Mark. Can you or someone give us an overview of what is covered in MM A school. Is it pretty much equivalent to high school trig and pre cal and something like AP physics and chemistry or will it be harder than that, more on a major college level?. It's hard to find out much about it online.

Comment by Mark on July 31, 2015 at 10:44am: AParents - I took a quick look at that. Based on the topics covered; if the site works properly, it's a great idea that should have been done years ago to give baby nucs a chance to better prepare. The math and physics would be the first priority because those subjects come early in power school. Chemistry and radiation come in second half. I suspect they chose the four areas they did because the subject matter is the least specific to naval nuclear power. They cover other topics in power school that, if given the same treatment as the four areas they selected, would give too much of a look at the curriculum.

Comment by AParents on July 31, 2015 at 10:27am: Hi all, I have a serious friday question if someone would ask their Nuke. On the NNPTC website home page:
http://www.netc.navy.mil/nnptc/
There's a link called Study Material at the very bottom:
http://www.netc.navy.mil/nnptc/studymaterial.html
Which part of that material would be helpful for us to provide to our Sailor Recruit to look at prior to A school. Which part for PowerSchool, which part for Prototype. So she has a little bit of an idea of what she will be up against, curriculum wise before she get's to A school, and beyond. Her recruiter didn't mention any of that, not sure if any of it has been mentioned or covered during boot camp. Not sure how to use that material between now and the time she starts A school. Would it help if we sent her just alittle of it (which parts) of it to look over her last week in Boot Camp, her first week in Charleston during INDOC. And during her first weeks of A school.

Comment by 8isenuff (ET & MM) on July 31, 2015 at 3:05am: Ooops. Had no idea that was going to go down like that. Not the tech person, obviously. I deal with dust bunnies and children. :-)

Comment by 8isenuff (ET & MM) on July 31, 2015 at 2:59am: Hello everyone, it has been awhile since I have posted anything. This group is busy! I had a ton of things to catch up on. My computer's hard drive decided to take a permanent nap.  Fortunately, I have a good "in" with a computer expert (one of our older kiddos) and he put me all back together. I did have pretty much everything on an external hard drive, so that made his job much easier.  Whew!

Happy anniversary to you and hubby, B'sNukeMom. :-) That picture is so great.

PattiP, Happy birthday from the upper corner of our state! :-) Hope you had a good one. And I am so sorry for the loss of your sister.

CO-Twin, your cookies look divine, as always. Too bad CO is too far away for a day trip! I love the name for your shop. You are so clever!

I know there have been lots of others with sailors moving on and up in the pipeline. Kudos to all of them. These young men and women are truly amazing.

Our nukes' older sister graduated with a PharmD degree in May. Pretty proud of her!  That happened to be a 4 day weekend for our MM, so she got special liberty permission to drive home and celebrate her sister's special day. YAY! I took as many hugs as I could get! :-)

In June, we spent some time with the nukes in BS. We had a great weekend! The Saratoga Springs area is absolutely beautiful! We went to a petting zoo, the Ballston Spa Balloon a Fair, Saratoga National Park, The National Horse Racing Hall of Fame, and of course the Saratoga Raceway (the harness track, thoroughbreds weren't racing yet). To top that off, our second oldest son sneaked up for a visit, too, and surprised the heck out me! Oh, he felt smug!   :-)So, I got 2 and 1/4 kid visits for the price of 1! (The 1/4 kid was our ET, who was on days, lol). I am one very lucky Momma!

Our ET surprised us with a visit home over the 4th of July. It was an awesome surprise (these sailors like doing that, don't they?) and another good visit. More hugs. (Hey, I take them when I can get them, right?)

Last weekend, our MM came home once more. We had another horse show, and she figured it will be her last one for awhile.  She wanted to play with kittens, and also pet horse noses.  I can't blame her. Rumor has it that sea horses are not very trainable. Nor do they have soft, velvety noses, lol

Comment by KAM Mom on July 31, 2015 at 12:04am: First grand child born on Friday the 17th, turned 66 on the 25th, Sailor doing great in GC, husband facing surgery at MUSC on 5th....lots of emotions while watching the blessing fall from above.