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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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

Weather - Charleston

Members: 2693
Latest Activity: 5 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 Dittersmom on August 4, 2015 at 12:55pm: Hello ladies. Seems like I fell off the face of the earth. I have been having computer problems and now all of many n4m posts go to my junk mail. An email program has grabbed my emails from my web program and I can only check emails from my husband's computer. I will have to try and get that taken care of later. It is just great to be posting again. My daughter had her baby, so now I am a grandma (hard to say).

I have really missed everyone. So glad to be back.

8isenuff- congrats to your sailor. My son is supposed to be graduating in Sept, but her did they are not having a graduation. I could not go to A school grad, he had to retest for power school, so he didn't get to walk and now he says no graduation for proto. Even if there was, I am starting a new job and can't take time.

Jmama - our son has his car registered in our home state and his insurance is also in Oregon. The insurance agent said that until they get their orders they are treated as if they are in college. I have heard that USAA is good. Our insurance is Allstate and they can insure through their national office, so probably won't change.

Comment by Besties4dogs (NukeMM) on August 4, 2015 at 12:52pm: Thank you 8isenuff and B'sNukeMom, my son is aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, his first choice!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on August 4, 2015 at 12:41pm: Besties4dogs - big old NMH's to you! I'm sure your son is excited to start the next adventure of his nuke journey! Where is he stationed?

Donna - I'm going to 2nd what J's/S'smom said! My son said Power School was the hardest for him - he even had to re-comp. Right now your son is his own worst enemy - somehow if he can convince himself to relax (I know, easier said than done!) he can get through this - tell him to Believe in Himself! And no matter what happens, it isn't the end of the world! Good luck to him!

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on August 4, 2015 at 12:06pm: Talked to me son last night and he's struggling with his grades. He's in Power School (EM) and is drawing a blank when he sits down to take his tests. It isn't that he doesn't understand the material, is that he sykes himself out and over stresses because he wants to do the best, which causes him to not do well.

I try to encourage him to relax, ask for help and take it one day at a time. Stop shooting for the moon, but rather shoot to clear the gravity pull. LOL I feel so lost on this end of things and would love any advice I can pass on to him to help him relax before tests.

Now he's even more stressed that they'll drop him because he's JUST passing. They haven't pulled him in to talk to him about it, so I keep telling him that's a good sign, but I really don't know if it is or not? I would figure that they would talk to him about his future if he really was doing that badly. Does anyone have any insight on that?

Comment by 8isenuff (ET & MM) on August 4, 2015 at 11:40am: Besties4dogs, Fair winds and following seas to your MM as he is off to new adventures. I can only imagine what I will be like when my two finally get orders and set sail. :-) (((Besties4dogs)))

Comment by Besties4dogs (NukeMM) on August 4, 2015 at 11:30am: It's official!! My son is now an MM on board his new ship and it looks like we may not see him for a very long time since he is stationed on the other side of the country and soon on the other side of the world. I was brave at the airport but am now a blubbering idiot. Hopefully, this passes soon. I am so excited that he is finally starting his new great adventure!! I do need some Navy Mom hugs though.

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on August 4, 2015 at 11:23am: Love the pictures, really helps with what will go on. Thanks

Comment by DonnaEricsMom on August 4, 2015 at 11:21am: Thank you Co-Twin for the info on the graduation.

Comment by TJ Proudnavymom on August 4, 2015 at 11:05am: Thanks all. I'm confident he'll soar as an MT. He always lands on his feet. Like a cat ;)

Comment by WearsLargeHats on August 4, 2015 at 11:03am: TJ, It seems a lot of nuke-drops go to MT. So much so that I wonder if most MTs enter that way. So he will have plenty of company and I'm sure he will do fine.