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Navy For Moms

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

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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

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.)

N4M Merchandise

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Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

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: 7 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 Maria - Michigan Mom on April 30, 2016 at 7:36pm: Thanks so much JayDee!

Comment by JayDee659 on April 30, 2016 at 7:19pm: I meant to say also that traffic from downtown is very heavy.

Comment by JayDee659 on April 30, 2016 at 7:16pm: Maria - Mich Mom we stayed at the Fairfield Inn, Ashley North Phosphate the last time we were there and it's about 15 minutes from the base. It's near the mall too. The previous time we stayed at the Courtyard in North Chaarleston. We found both to be quite nice but are staying at the Fairfield when we go back later this year.

Comment by Maria - Michigan Mom on April 30, 2016 at 7:11pm: Hi everyone, its been a little while since I have been on this site. I have some catch up reading to do :) We are going to visit our son over Memorial Day weekend. He is an ET in A School. I would greatly appreciate if any one could recommend what area in Charleston we should look at staying in. We have never been and will be traveling with our teenage son. Do you recommend the historic district near the water? We will have to drive him back to base each night unless he is able to stay out overnight by then. I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks so much!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on April 29, 2016 at 1:08pm: Hi all - Happy Friday!

I'm excited as my college son has his league championships for track today & tomorrow (even though he graduated last week the season continues through May!). But the reason I am excited is because my PS will be able to see his brother run for the 1st (and almost last!) time in his college career! For the entire time college son was at school PS was either in GC, NY or VA. I'm so happy that this worked out ;-)

Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

Comment by Buzzbeck on April 28, 2016 at 10:07pm: 2sailormom, congratulations to your son for both of his accomplishments, what an amazing person he is.

Boywondermom, thank you for sharing your sailor's story, and how he seeks the Lord for inner strength. It is uplifting. Our sailor's story is similar. It is good to hear God answering all of our prayers.

Comment by BoyWonderMom on April 28, 2016 at 2:26pm: KAM mom, my son struggled in every stage of nuc school. But something drove him to success. He always had many friends supporting him and we were close enough to Goose Creek that he used to drive home every two months. Even when he put VA as his first choice, was very discouraged when he realized that it was going to be a while until the carrier was ready. But time sure have a way to put things in order and give us all a new normal. Your son will find confidence and strength. Time and the "struggles" will give him that. God got his back. Congratulations to your sailor on Power School graduation, it's the most amazing feeling :)

Comment by NancyJo (NNPTC) on April 28, 2016 at 2:21pm: BoyWonderMom, so true. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to remind us to appreciate the now. You have my sympathy for your loss. I lost my mother in December. But our children are the future and I'm so grateful for ours. I'm also grateful we all have each other here. It's a wonderful sisterhood. {{hugs}} Sea Sister!

Comment by BoyWonderMom on April 28, 2016 at 2:10pm: B'sNuke, time sure flies! Love the happiness print. After we went through our dear Felipe's tragic death in February, our family dinamic sure changed. We now remind ourselfs to be happy every second of every day. Nothing is more important than being alive and be grateful for it.

Comment by BoyWonderMom on April 28, 2016 at 2:04pm: NancyJo, my mother was diagnosed in 2000 and passed in 2003, barely ten months post transplant. It was extremely hard after everything she went through. Six months after she passed, my father was diagnosed and had the transplant in the summer of 2006. He's still with us and healthy, which I consider a miracle. He lives by himself in Puerto Rico and visits frecuently. The autologous transplant is done with their own blood, after a process of high doses of chemo. It works most of the time, and survival is very good, still my dad's a miracle since he was stage 4 when he was diagnosed.