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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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: 2695
Latest Activity: yesterday

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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Comment by Proud momma on February 15, 2016 at 11:28am
NancyJo(CVN70) thanks for your response and appreciate any input,advice and support. I'm so excited for him and want to be as knowledgeable as possible to be able to share in this experience with him and be there for him
Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 15, 2016 at 11:08am

Hi Proud momma, welcome! Although haven't we seen you before? Maybe someone with a similar user name. If you are here for the first time, we're glad you are here. There is a ton of info to learn. Read through the documents on the right for a lot of the basic stuff. You will also want to look for the boot camp group.

We nukes stick together and share what we can, and support each other through the good times and bad. Don't hesitate to ask anything. It is a crazy rollercoaster so hold on to your hat!

Comment by Proud momma on February 14, 2016 at 11:56pm
Hi everyone my son is going to RTC next week and then off to Nuke school. Proud and excited for him but of course I'm mom. Emotional and want to learn as much as I can.
Comment by SoCal_Sailor_Dad on February 13, 2016 at 7:32am

Newbie17, those groups are open to anyone with a loved one in the nuke program, but not the nukes themselves. There are moms, dads, wives, girlfriends, grandparents, etc. They can be a good source of information, as there are a few dads there who are former nukes, and spouses who live on base who can provide a closer perspective.

Comment by Newbie17 on February 13, 2016 at 2:24am
SoCal_Sailor_Dad Do you know if these Facebook groups are limited to just Moms/Dads of Nukes?
Comment by SoCal_Sailor_Dad on February 12, 2016 at 6:16pm

Shipping option for NNPTC - For those of you who are on one of the Facebook pages for nuke school, you will know that there is a Nuke mom who lives next to the base who has been volunteering to receive packages for the sailors. You arrange to have the packages shipped to her, give her your sailor's cell # and she will meet them at the mini NEX at a time that works for your sailor. This is convenient because the sailors can't always get to the mailroom when it is open, and the mailrrom often gets backed up.
I don't want to post her name here, but if you join one of the Facebook groups, it will be apparent who she is, she will also post a photo of your sailor for you. Additionally, she has received and delivered over 25 vehicles for sailors at NNPTC.
The facebook groups are "Navy Nuke School NNPTC & NPTU Goose Creek SC & Ballston Spa NY" and "Navy Nuke~A School and Beyond..." They are closed groups, so you will have to request to be added, just like the PIR groups.

Comment by Christa on February 12, 2016 at 6:01pm

Thanks so much everyone! Your info is VERY helpful! I will let my daughter know that she will have to go get it from the mail room, and I will definitely get a tracking number. I appreciate having this site to get my info from, it's so much to learn. And just when you get to know how to do things for one place, they move and you get to learn again I guess! lol

Comment by JayDee659 on February 12, 2016 at 5:25pm
So far I've not had any issue sending things to my daughter. I ship via UPS. When I get the notification that the package has been received I text the tracking number to her and she picks it up. She says it's easier to get if she has the tracking number but no big problems without. She has told us that if it's a regular envelope it's given to her and if it's a package she gets a paper telling her to go to the mail room.
Comment by DonnaEricsMom on February 12, 2016 at 5:19pm

Christa,

I always sent my packages USPS priority (if it fits it ships) so I had a tracking number.  I would let my son know that it had arrived and he could go to the mail room and get it.  It only took him a day usually after it arrived to get it.  Once he had to tell the mail person where it was on the shelf because they said it wasn't there.  He recognized my hand writting on the box.  The person gave it to him.  Sometimes it all in how they interact with the mail person.

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on February 12, 2016 at 1:02pm

Christa, to the right is the document "Your Sailor's Schedule Upon Arrival to GC". The mailing address for GC is in there.

 
 
 

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