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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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
Comment Wall
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Comment by Brenda Sue on March 15, 2010 at 2:11pm
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Mine goes from loving it to hating it almost daily!!
He is traveling around right now!
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Comment by Tabitha on March 8, 2010 at 9:37pm
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Hey ladies...we're stopped in North Dakota for the night =) we're getting there, slowly but surely!
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Susan, I am not going for my own son - but some whose moms are on here. They are saying that it is too late to put my name on a list.
Do you think I could get on this late? I want to go Friday. What do they do Friday when they are finished? I may just drive in Friday instead of trying to be there Thursday night to go to the ceremony if I can't get on base.
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Have any of you been to the MA pinning in San Antonio?
I want to go - but don't have my name on "the list" to get in.
Do you think I will be able to get on base?
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The name of that paper is Navy Times.
13 weeks for $13.95
26 weeks for $27.95
52 weeks for $55
Subscribe at navytimes.com/subscribe/now
or call 1-800-368-5718
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MSRON - Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron
They are numbered. In the Navy paper I get - they tell where the group is deployed - just like the location of each ship.
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Janice - what is KB's??
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Janice, All I know is that the base is near the ocean (hahaha). When my son first got there a lot of his calls him I could not hear him because he spent time walking along the beach. He did his A school for MA there. Most of the time he walked out when I picked him up from that base. He got to spend a lot of time with me at the hotel after A school graduation (maybe because I was about the only mom there and came from so far - but I didn't know that it wasn't like PIR). When I dropped him off on the base, they let me drive in - and he pointed out a few buildings - but that is about it! Being a girl and a mom - you might get to go up to her room if you ever visit. I am not sure. It is very close to Virginia Beach and Norfolk. I stayed at Virginia Beach when I went one time.
My son is now homeported in Portsmouth (probably 20 - 30 minutes away) and he hates it. He does not like that city. He is not there much because of different training and being deployed. He is with a MSRON.
I went to a homecoming on Norfolk base. It is HUGE!! The Navy Lodge there is very close and remodeled about two years ago.
My son likes things one day and then hates them the next. I won't even bother asking him.
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Comment by janieflorida on March 3, 2010 at 6:46pm
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Stephen did the same thing when he came home. i could watch him asleep in the morning. Makes you cry.
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Janice, I have been to Little Creek -
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