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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!

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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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MAA Moms

A group for moms of "Master At Arms" sailors.

Members: 630
Latest Activity: Oct 4, 2023

Hello
We look forward to hearing about your sailors journey. How he/she likes being an MAA (MA) and which kind of job they are doing and how you are doing knowing what your sailor does for a living.
NOTE: Please help keep our sailors safe. Don't give out exact locations.Example: If he/she is in Iraq you can say Iraq but I would not say the name of the camp or a town near the camp. If they are on a ship don't give the last known location. Although some of that is public we don't in anyway want to jeopardize them.

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MA Schools
Lackland AFB, TX -- 40 calendar days
Hampton Roads, VA -- 50 calendar days
Kings Ba, GA -- 50 calendar days

Ship and shore physical security requirements, crime prevention, military and civil law, antiterrorism procedures, physical fitness training, interpersonal communications, first aid, firearms and physical restraint. Group instruction, classroom and physical training in use of restraining devices.

MA's Practicing There Skills - Bahrain

OC Spray

Below is a look at what the MA sailors go though in "A" school at Lackland Air Force Base. USS Russell April 12, 2008 The ship's boarding team practices their close-quarters combat skills while the ship's Master-at-Arms offers "encouragement".

Discussion Forum

GITMO

Started by Julie. Last reply by IdahoMom Dec 8, 2018. 7 Replies

Offutt

Started by Karen Oct 20, 2017. 0 Replies

Graduation Dates

Started by MA mom of KY. Last reply by MainemomJulie May 30, 2017. 2 Replies

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Comment by Gamecocks1 on June 9, 2017 at 12:24pm

Good afternoon to all the Navy Moms on this site. My son is at RTC waiting to class up. He will be a MAA! Excited to be going through this journey again. My eldest graduated in 2014. 

Comment by Momma-P on June 3, 2017 at 3:36pm
This is true, kevmom. My son will be in holding for a bit waiting to class up. Best of luck to your son in the coming weeks
Comment by Kevsmom (ship4 div179) on June 3, 2017 at 3:09pm
Momma-p congratulations all we can do is pray and hope that they are enjoying all this great experience.
my son will be flying there next week.
Comment by Momma-P on June 3, 2017 at 2:48pm
My son is on his way to San Antonio now, was a short day with him yesterday but ready for this next step in his training.
Comment by 3 boy mom on May 31, 2017 at 1:15pm

Thank you so much, your words are comforting, I know he will be fine, its nice to be able to talk to him and face time him. I know everything will be fine, 

Comment by Holly MA Mom on May 31, 2017 at 11:14am

3 boy mom, It's great that Kade is getting to class up on the 8th.  They actually kept my son in holding for over 3 weeks.

Tyler'sMom is right, as long as he follows instructions and doesn't do anything brash (like getting a tattoo while he's in A school), he should be fine though he definitely will be frustrated by some of the strange and interesting things a few of his classmates will do that will result in punishment for all. Just try to keep talking positive to him to keep his spirits up and remind him that he's only there for a short period of time.  Also, most bases are not as restrictive as Joint Base Lackland is towards the Navy MA students - so he can look forward to an easier time after school

Learning a job, leaving home and then having to stick with a full time job when it's one of the first ones you've had is a lot for any person under 21 to handle, but our Sailors are special because they learn to handle all of that plus the added responsibility of keeping our country safe. It's a lot of pressure.

Comment by Tyler'sMom on May 31, 2017 at 10:00am

Holly,

My son graduated MA back in March and now is Bahrain for 2 years.  He graduated Boot Camp in July 2016, went too Pensacola from there for Rescue Swimmer School.  He was injured there, rolled back and then dropped in November.  He was allowed to pick MA as his next choice.  

The reason I share all that with you is to give you background for his take on MA School.  He was older then most of the kids there (25).  He had graduated college and then a year before joining.  He felt like a lot of the kids there asked for the trouble they got into.  He said that it is fairly easy to keep out of trouble as long as you focus on what you are told to do.  He said that kids just did stupid stuff.  MA school was easy for him considering where he had come from, frustrating at times for him.

Your son will be fine as long as he does what he is told to do and makes wise choices when the opportunity arises.

Most of the kids from his class were sent to Bahrain. A few to Carribean, Italy and some stayed State side.  Bahrain has a huge MA presence.  My son said around 500 on base. They basically provide "Anti Terrorism" for the base and it's personnel.

He says that there are worse places to be, so they can make the best of it.

It is a nerve wracking time for everyone but he will settle in quickly.  You will just have to take it a day at a time.  It hasn't been easy for me but what about having and raising kids is?  

Good luck to him and I hope he gets into the Dog Program! How fun and rewarding.

Comment by 3 boy mom on May 30, 2017 at 12:42pm

Holly 

Thank you so much for your wonderful words of encouragement, I will tell him these things, I know he will do great as long as he does all of these things, I pray that he will, he is in holding right now tell the 8th I think he said, I know my son would love to be in California but he thinks he is going to end up overseas he also would like to have a service dog so I hope that it works out for him I love this picture I can't wait to hear how Kade does..... I think he is nervous I would also be...thank you again....xoxo

Comment by Holly MA Mom on May 30, 2017 at 11:47am

Here's a picture that one of my sons MA school buddies sent to him - it was the day of the dreaded "OC spray" - It's not as bad as it we all hear it is, according to him. He said the hype is half the pain.

Comment by Holly MA Mom on May 30, 2017 at 11:39am

Hi 3 boy mom,

My son is currently attached to a fighter jet sqaudron as an MA.  He is currently at a Naval Air Station base in California.  However, his MA school was in San Antonio and he experienced a lot of stress there as well ( at one point he told me that he was sure he was in prison, not A school).  I'm not sure that it isn't intentionally set up that way to test them a little.  He will get through it as long as he follows instructions and does his best to keep a good attitude. At some point they will most likely take priviledges away from entire group for the indescretions or attitude of one or two students (happens almost every class). It definitely gets a lot better after A school though.  I think the Navy is just trying to "help" those free spirited individuals learn to work together and follow instructions which becomes really important when they are deployed on a ship.  Your son will always have things he dislikes about the job or the Navy, but the friendships and bonds that are created throughout this journey will be priceless to him.  Tell him to hang in there, it'll definitely get better, though it probably doesn't seem like it right now.

 

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