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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.
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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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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 Mollie...Kelcies Mom on July 22, 2010 at 8:19pm
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One poor girl on my daughter's carrier did just that while they were "manning the rails" that's when they line the deck with sailors every time they pull into or out of port. Luckily there was a catwalk below where she was "manning", but she got pretty banged up from the fall anyway :>(
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Comment by Brenda Sue on July 22, 2010 at 7:37pm
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I learned in band that if you locked your knees you could pass out. Some people did it to get out of marching in the August 100 degree heat here.
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Cathy!! I bet the rolling watch is the guys that walk in and out of the ranks and look for guys who are about to pass out. Some do because they just finished Battle Stations and they have to stand for the entire ceremony. A couple did at our PIR!!
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Comment by Proud Mom of a Sailor on July 22, 2010 at 12:57pm
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Kimmy my son seems to think he will be going to Japan. I will know for sure tomorrow. He said if he goes to Japan then he will be there for 3 years.
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Comment by janieflorida on July 22, 2010 at 7:43am
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Steve left for San Antonio on Saturday AM. but we got to spend the day with him in Chicago and have a nice dinner out. We met him at the airport also to say goodby.
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Kimmydee, when my daughter graduated from A school about 3 years ago, about 90% of everyother graduating class of MA's were being sent to Bahrain. One of Kelcie's best friends from basic, get set back a week during A school and wound up in Bahrain, but as best as I remember, she liked it okay, and she got to have her pick of her next duty station. So it is usually a trade off.
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Eunice, even if he does get to (or have to) stay in GL longer - he probably won't be allowed to leave the base again after Sunday evening - UNLESS Monday is a Federal Holiday. Mine got to because Monday was President's Day!! Also, he was supposed to come to San Antonio (I also am from Texas) on Wednesday - but he called from the airport and he went to Virginia instead. Mine is the only MA that I know of that did A school in Virginia instead of San Antonio. I do know for sure that he is a MA because I went to that graduation!!
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Comment by Eunice-Ship07Div290 PIR 09/02 on July 21, 2010 at 9:33pm
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lemonelephant-Thanks for the info.
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Comment by lemonelephant on July 21, 2010 at 9:31pm
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Eunice, your Recruit may know a few weeks before PIR, but it could change. For example, my Sailor believed he was leaving on Tuesday to start A School the next week and ended up leaving the Sunday after PIR to start the next day.
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Does anyone know when they leave for the MAA program in San Antonio after they graduate on 9/2? Just need to find out for my hotel reservations
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