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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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Latest Activity: 9 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

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Comment by Alison on August 3, 2015 at 7:47am: Good Morning NukeMoms! Thank you for the welcome PattiP -- I'm also typing on my new Chrome book after giving up on my tablet :)

Any advice for visits to Goose Creek? Our sailor's bday is in 3 weeks. I don't think he's allowed overnight liberty yet...

Comment by Mark on August 1, 2015 at 12:28pm: AParent, I can't speak directly to A school, but I can generalize a little based on the NPS (Nuclear Power School) experience in early 80s. The A school experience has changed from ours, where we were in A school with the non-nuclear versions of MMs, EMs and ETs in Great Lakes to today where after boot camp they are in an exclusively nuclear training environment. The changes are an improvement, but the older system turned out a pretty good generation of nucs as well. My MM A school training was all of thirteen training days, then it was off to Orlando for NPS. Ten years later, the Navy began the Nuclear Field A School, also in Orlando, sharing the campus with NPS. That campus now appears to have been excavated and submerged under something called "Lake Gear" in a nice recently developed residential neighborhood of SE Orlando. I understand that part of the idea for a nuclear-dedicated A school was to prepare the nucs a little better for (for some) the shock of NPS. Math was probably the most important area to prepare in, followed by physics, then chemistry, then radiation - hence the groupings you see in the website that was very helpfully linked to a few postings back. All the areas are covered in exactly the depth needed to understand the theoretical knowledge behind operation of a nuclear propulsion plant, in all its aspects. In math, this gets you through basic trig, but only slightly in to trig identities, for the math geeks amongst you :) - very basic differentials, and a vague notion of what an integral represents. In physics, its Newton's Laws of Motion, which is later developed into the very specific areas needed to understand reactions behind nuclear fission, and how the reactions are controlled. NPS math and physics are review of a mid-second year of high school algebra, plus a high school physics class. I would expect the current A school to be a refresher of the basics, and may likely include all of the math I described. If the nuc has the benefit of doing the math and physics both in high school, and again in the first year or so of college, they should be able to enjoy the nuclear training experience, as long as they adapt well to the military aspect of it.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 1, 2015 at 10:49am: Love boots in the house. enjoy

Comment by PacNWmom on August 1, 2015 at 9:24am: Boots in the house! As those with good memories may remember, my son is in A school. I am on vacation in NC with my parents, and am taking advantage of the opportunity to see my sailor. I drove down to pick him up yesterday, and get to keep him until tomorrow evening. It's SO nice to have a bit of time with him. He is doing really well. He got 123 out of a possible 125 points on his Digital Microprocessors test this week. On the phone I can hardly get 2 words out of him, but face-to-face he's a chatterbox.

In other news, I hear it's been tremendously hot back at home in Oregon (where almost no one has a/c in their homes). I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad to be in the relatively cool, humid mid-90's of the south.

Stay cool out there folks!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 31, 2015 at 9:48pm: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/many-ballistic-missile-submarines-u-...

N4M's went black for a while. I saw the PBS newshour on the subs. You can look online above and see it + more.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on July 31, 2015 at 7:23pm: Awe yes time differences. Such fun.

I do not have the web site up yet. am working on one.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 31, 2015 at 3:13pm: Well I had to look up Prime Meridian Patti so I could get a better understanding (hubby always says that I am geographically challenged lol!).

Here's a couple links if anyone is interested:

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/geography/equatorprime...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian

Comment by AParents on July 31, 2015 at 12:22pm: Boy Wonder Mom... yeah, it's tough finding information so we can help our future nuke prepare for what's coming. We'll offer what we can then say tons of prayers she will commit to putting in the time and effort and avoid distractions (Even us. Ha!) Seems your son has mastered that art, which seems to be a good thing in their chosen field.

Oh 8isenuff our recruit (soon to be a nuke--hopefully) also has an older sis who graduated PharmD May 2014. So very proud of all our kids. 1 Navy, 1 Marine recruit in DEP, 1 K-9 police officer, 1 PharmD.

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on July 31, 2015 at 12:01pm: CO-TwinSailorsMom do you have a website up yet or somehow that I can order your goodies?? Sorry if you already addressed this on prior posts. I live in Sterling so you are a little ways away for me to visit your store regularly, but you're killing me with all these treats that I'd like to have. LOL

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on July 31, 2015 at 11:50am: AParents thank you for those links, it was nice to finally have a little insight into what my Sailors been up too. He takes the not sharing information about school very very seriously. I can't even get him to share general info. LOL