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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
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
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 0 Likes
Graduation Dates
Started by MA mom of KY. Last reply by MainemomJulie May 30, 2017. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by LaurieM Ship 2 Div 902 on November 11, 2010 at 7:54pm
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My son will be graduating bc on 11/24 and then on to A school for MA as well in San Antonio. Looking forward to the next chapter after bc but anticipating PIR with pride and excitement!
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Comment by chriscwick on November 11, 2010 at 5:45pm
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Welcome, happy Veterans day!!!!!!
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Comment by Marti Jacob's Mom on November 11, 2010 at 2:08pm
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Melh HI My son is also graduating on12/3 too. Has your heard of when he will leave for MA yet mine has not. I just came on last week to learn more.
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Comment by Melh1215(ship 09,div 016) on November 11, 2010 at 1:07pm
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Hello ladies. My son will be graduating bootcamp 12/3, then on to A school in San Antonio for MA training. I wanted to start following this group - so here I am. I'll be reading and trying to learn all about it. Glad yall are here for newbies like myself!
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RAP gave Chris extra leave prior to reporting to Bahrain. Those days were treasures!
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Comment by Brenda Sue on November 11, 2010 at 1:28am
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Recruiter Assistance Program - when on leave your Sailor can "work" with his recruiter and it won't count as a day of leave.
Most recruiters make them show up (in some sort of uniform) and then go home. maybe walk around their high school during lunch or something
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Comment by hurleyl8dyShip6Div943PIR9/10/10 on November 10, 2010 at 7:31pm
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So happy for him SusanA, the weather here has been great! I have my sailor home too right now. He just got done doing RAP. He's really looking forward to Kings Bay GA.
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Aw, haha, chriswick, that is such a good statement he made!
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When Chris got his badge we asked how he felt. You could hear the huge grin in his voice as he replied, "SHINY"!!!!!!
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What an exciting place for Sarah to be Kimmydee. Just think about when you will go visit her!
Have my son home right now and then he reports to Kings Bay GA. He is very excited. It was so nice to see him in his peanut butters with his new badge on this morning before he went out to the recruiters office.
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