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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

Events

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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.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
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PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
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.)

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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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MAA Moms

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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".

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Comment by lemonelephant on September 21, 2018 at 8:15pm: Welcome, Casey's mom. I left info on your My Page that will help you on this new path.

Comment by Casey's mom on September 21, 2018 at 1:39pm: Hello everyone, I am new here my son was at A school for Air Traffic Control. He wasn't really getting it so they ended up dropping him from the program at the very end right before graduation. He is will be on his way to A school in Texas sometime in October. I am a little nerves for him because he came out of boot camp back in April so he hasn't been doing any PT. AC school is very laid back.

Comment by kuuipo on September 11, 2018 at 1:26pm: Hello everyone, my son finished A School and has been assigned, but due to weather in everywhere is has a connected flight, they all even here have a hurricane or typhoon going on,

Comment by CarsMom on September 10, 2018 at 3:04pm: Our SR is now in SA. He says there is a lot to learn - I think he is a bit overwhelmed going from basic to there. Just trying to get his bearings.

Comment by pokey1042 on July 31, 2018 at 8:56am: Heather, yes having communication is the best. I FaceTime with my son since he arrived at A school. Hope he enjoys SA. It’s hot here. If you have any questions about SA, I’m available for info.

Comment by Heather on July 30, 2018 at 5:16pm: Hi there. My son just got to SA on Sat. It's so nice to be able to chat with him now

Comment by April on July 17, 2018 at 9:49pm: We drove my son home after graduation. He had to make travel arrangements through the agency the Navy used to modify his flight for the date he was supposed to be at his assignment. We paid quite a bit of out of pocket expense to change the flight date and airport. It was nice to have the extra time with him before he left.

Comment by navysis030495 on July 17, 2018 at 4:56pm: Hi All. My brother is graduating Master at Arms training on Friday (Lackland AFB San Antonio). The family has plans to stay the weekend as we thought he would be able to purchase his own flight home.

However, he informed us today that the powers that be assign him a flight home and he has no power over when that flight is. He might have to leave as early as the evening of the ceremony.

Is there any way he can change the date of the flight or fund his own way home?

Comment by Erica on July 5, 2018 at 9:25pm: Hi there! My son leaves in 10 days for BC! He is SO excited that his change of rate came through and he's now an MA...he waited since Sept for it to go through (sworn in last Aug) and he finally got the call mid-June. He is beside himself.