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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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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 Bo's Mom on April 8, 2010 at 8:24pm: Hello,, I am new, my son begins MA school training April 12, 2010...any others who are new to this ?

Comment by janieflorida on April 2, 2010 at 7:41am: Kumi nice job on your project. Everyone have a joyous Easter

Comment by tmgMom on March 25, 2010 at 1:32pm: Hi Doreen:

Just catching this...where is your son? and the bug problem?

Comment by ScorpioMom on March 24, 2010 at 3:18am: Doreen, I just talked to my daughter in law, has your son gone to building 1070? they handle barracks issues. And having aerosol bug spray is a bad idea but maybe try traps??

Comment by janieflorida on March 19, 2010 at 9:02am: Doreen how about writing to your senator and/or congressman.

Comment by Tabitha on March 16, 2010 at 11:05am: Monica: My hubby talked to James & Brian a few days ago & it seems like they got seperated :( But I'm glad they are doing well! Matt isn't liking it here so far but like I told him it's only for 2 years and we will do whatever it takes to get through this together! Keep us in your prayers, please! Thanks everyone =)

Comment by janieflorida on March 16, 2010 at 8:05am: Well put Deborah, you have a gift with prose. I agree prayers are awesome, we don't always get the answer we want but just the act of prayer is comforting.

Comment by janieflorida on March 15, 2010 at 7:53pm: Stephen was homesick when he first arrived in CA, but has adjusted, I agree with Brenda Sue talk with the chaplain, pray and keep in touch with your son.
Stephen turned 19 in January, our boys are men but still sometimes kids.

Comment by Tabitha on March 15, 2010 at 5:37pm: Hey ladies! We are finally getting settled in our new house! We love it here so far! Matt started his next training courses today and says it's a lil rough but it could always be worse =)

Comment by Brenda Sue on March 15, 2010 at 3:04pm: I wouldn't suggest him doing so - they might label him as a "whiney baby". As far as the roaches (I dispise them also). I suggest him getting some spray himself. This may or may not be "legal". In our school, we are not allowed to spray because some kid may be allergic to the spray - so he needs to check into it first.

I suggest him talking maybe with the chaplain. I bet he would be the most "sensitive" person there. I seriously doubt that anything could be done to change his situation. My Sailor has had to live with roommates that absolutely STANK!!

Hey, I do believe that prayer changes things!! I'll help you pray!!
This has worked MANY times for me also. My son goes from "you bother me more than anyone" to "where is my mom been" - in a matter of days - when I really spend some time praying for him!