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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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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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

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

Members: 630
Latest Activity: Oct 4, 2023

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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 Mollie...Kelcies Mom on October 21, 2010 at 2:21am: Deborah.....HOORAY!!!! What a relief for you and your family. So glad they arrived home safely :-)

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on October 18, 2010 at 1:51am: Susan, so happy for you!! Enjoy every second of your time with him.
Cathy, it is so nice when it works out like that. We were lucky as Kelcie's 1st duty station was only a 10 hour drive and they worked 3 on, 4 off, 4 on, 3 off, so she would come home for a few days every few months :-) Now she's in Japan....not so easy :( But I'm actually flying there in just over two weeks to surprise her for her birthday. She has been there for a year now, and has only been home once. Can't wait to see her, it's been 7 months.

Comment by chriscwick on October 13, 2010 at 6:53pm: Happy birthday to the US NAVY!!!!

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on October 13, 2010 at 6:40pm: Yep, the MA graduation is VERY informal. Pretty much they are just handed their "diplomas". No pomp etc. We were not able to go either, after having flown to Chicago for PIR, but my brother in law lives in New Mexico, and he drove over for it. It was nice to have "representation", but NOT a big deal at all.

Comment by chriscwick on October 12, 2010 at 9:08pm: Our MA Chris said it was a less formal, to save our $ for his leave prior to heading to Bahrain.

Comment by AuxLady(Ship 13,Div 321) on October 12, 2010 at 8:30pm: Thanks to all for info did anyone go out to A school graduation? I wont be able to go but husband Navy Viet Nam so thought he'd like to go, since won't be able to travel out that way for quite awhile.

Comment by Brenda Sue on October 9, 2010 at 12:30pm: My son is in the "mobile thing" (MSRON) - but I don't know what the shimmy is! I'll ask him if I get a chance.

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on October 8, 2010 at 12:48pm: Sara.....I take it that means Fallon. I just hope he likes sand sports. It's pretty isolated out there. VERY much like my daughters 1st station in El Centro Calif. A lot of people didn't like it, cause it was small etc, but she actually made the most of it. Rode lots of dirt bikes, sand sliders etc. Plus, being on a smaller base, I think there were less politics involved, plus she received a lot of recognition for excelling in different things. Things that would probably have gone unnoticed on a big base. I think that how the sailor approaches things is the final determining factor in how much they like or dislike their assignments. They just have to make the best of it, no matter where they wind up. That's just part of military life I suppose.