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:
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.
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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
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Comment by Brenda Sue on August 10, 2010 at 6:06pm
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Click Here and VOTE!!!
Thanks - this is a Betty Crocker contest that I entered and am in the top ten!!
Also, text 73774 and type in 100521 and vote for Molly's Adopt a Sailor! We are in 6thplace for $50,000!
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Comment by lemonelephant on August 9, 2010 at 6:41pm
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Thanks P'nut. I am enjoying him and also sharing him some. Since I moved last month, he is going up to our old area where most of his stateside firends are for the next few days and then Sunday, he will go up to Chicago and bring his sister back Tuesday, so I'll have them both for 9 days. I'm so glad for that!
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Comment by Purplemom (Ship 3 Div 084) on August 9, 2010 at 4:23pm
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Thanks Deborah! It is great to have such fantastic info in one place. We have a pretty good idea what to expect in basic and so on as my husband is career Army and my son-in-law is in the Air Force. As we are new to the Navy though it is great to have a place to get that Navy specific info. I look forward to getting to know everyone!
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Thanks Mollie, I look forward to getting to know everyone.
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Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on August 7, 2010 at 9:33pm
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Welcome purplemom......you came to the right place to learn. I wish I had known about N4M before my daughter went in, and also during BC. It is so cool that the families of the PIR class (pass in review) get to communicate with each other while their kids are going thru it. There are a ton of really awesome ladies on this site who are always eager to help each other out!
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Hi Everyone. My son will be heading to BC in December (possibly earlier) and then to MA school. Looking forward to learning lots about the Navy.
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Thanks everyone. He did put most of his things in the spare room and even did dishes today at lunch. It is so great to have him stateside and home. (Since I moved, home is not HOME for him, but he does have friends less than an hour away and it's only about 4 hours to the area where he had spent the 8 years before the Navy.) His dad is going to pick him up tomorrow and bring him back Friday--I'm glad they can have time together as well.
Deborah, he took a short leave last Oct. when his girlfriend at the time went to where he was stationed then. That's it, I think. I passed on your thanks. He said to thank your Sailor as well (everyone).
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lemonelephant......LUCKY YOU!!! Enjoy, but I know what you mean, after not having them home making messes, it take some teeth gritting, but like you said, it's worth it, just to have them home.
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My Sailor is home for 25 days!!!! I was so glad to pick him up last night since he hasn't been home since Dec 2008. I'll have both of my children home in a couple of weeks for a week. My sailor is off with a friend right now and I am not liking and yet liking at the same time the mess he left in the living room.
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It is disheartning for our kids to have such a tough time getting beyond E4. My daughter has hit the same thing. She made it up to E4 in two years, but now has been "stuck" for over a year.
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