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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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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

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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 5, 2010 at 12:16am: Bryansmom, when Kelcie graduated in SA, we couldn't go either, but my brother in law was living in New Mexico, and he drove down for it. I guess is is NOTHING like PIR, but I was still glad that she was able to have someone there with her. I'll tell you ladies one thing that I have learned over the years of Kelcie's being in the navy. The navy is a VERY small world. She has crisscrossed paths with so many of the same people, from basic, to A school, to both of her duty stations!! It has been really cool.
Kimmydee.....start saving now for a trip over while she is there! I'm going next month to surprise Kelcie for her birthday. Her boyfriend has set the whole thing up. I can't wait!!!

Comment by Bryansmom on October 4, 2010 at 2:29pm: Thanks, ya"ll. I was just worried that Bryan would be the only soldier without a parent there and he wasn't asking questions about the plane ticket. Kimmydee, Bryan and Sarah are friends. I seen her on his facebook account. Bryan is going to be stationed in Jacksonville FLA.

Comment by Rhonda Ship14 DIV274 (PIR 8-13) on October 4, 2010 at 8:03am: My son graduates on Oct 14th too and we're not going...you can go though and I thought they could reroute their tickets...We live in NC and he is getting stationed to Virginia...

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on October 3, 2010 at 7:37pm: Kimmydee, my daughter is an MA at Yokosuka, she is assigned to the USS George Washington. While they are in port, it is a LOT of patrol duty. There is quite a bit if protesting that goes on at Yokosuka, I guess because the GW is a nuclear powered carrier, so they have to keep pretty tight control on who comes onto base, and even have to guard the harbor, because protesters try to get in on small vessels. Atsugi is only a couple of hours from Yokosuka, and a lot of the flight crews and mechanics etc on board the GW are based out of Atsugi. Do you know if she will get to be part of the security team that goes out with flight crews, or will she pretty much stay on base all of the time? She might not even know that yet. Kelcie said she actually prefers being out to sea, as she has more varied duties when they are out. She acts as bailiff for hearings, works dispatch as well as patrols. Of course, she was only in Yokosuka for a short while before the GW went out to sea, so now she is more "established" so duty while on base might be more varied when they port back in Yoko for the winter.

Comment by chriscwick on October 3, 2010 at 6:47pm: Our MA Chris told us the same thing, as Kimmydee59 related. He got his shield, said he felt "shiny!" Yes, We've a wierd kid, but we love him! He came home, afterward, for a couple weeks, working at the recruiters office to earn more leave days, then off to Bahrain for 2 years. His travel plans had to be complete & approved before he left from TX, to NC, & finally to the sandy island.

Comment by Bryansmom on October 3, 2010 at 2:45pm: Is anyone going to the MA graduation on October 14? My son graduates that date but I have no information on it and don't even know if we will be able to go. He says that he will have to pay for the flight home before he goes to his duty station. He said the Navy only pays for the flight to his duty station and won't change it to home. He will be stationed in Florida so he is driving there instead of flying.

Comment by chriscwick on September 28, 2010 at 12:09pm: Welcome! I'm relatively new too. These ladies are so helpful and giving!

Comment by Sailor~Dustin's~mom on September 28, 2010 at 8:24am: Hello. We are new. I have a bootcamp maa at the moment. Our journey has just begun!

Comment by Linda-Mom to Brian on September 27, 2010 at 8:46am: Thanks Deborah, I am so glad your son made it safely there. I will keep him in my prayers. My son is about 8 to 10 weeks behind yours. He is home on leave after SA and will be leaving for Gulf Port soon. Thanks for the information on San Diego. It truly helps to know what to expect.

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on September 27, 2010 at 1:10am: Deborah, so glad your son made it safe and sound. Now the adventure begins (at least for him). Hopefully he is able to have at least regular computer access so he can stay in touch. It's definitely an adjustment, having them so far away. Don't begin to know how previous generations made it, without all of the modern convienences we have.