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Navy For Moms

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

Events

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**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:

RTC Graduation

**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.

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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy Speak

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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

Hello
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 Brenda Sue on March 2, 2010 at 11:40am: haha - Janie - I bet someone else did that for Molly!!! They had to do it for me! You just click on something on someone's music and a program comes up!
Check out Texas' Moms group and see our music there!!

Sometimes when I am at home I find someones page and listen to their music!

Comment by janieflorida on March 2, 2010 at 8:19am: Molly I liked your page How do you add music??

Comment by Brenda Sue on March 1, 2010 at 11:41pm: haha - Molly, I came over here to tell them - but I see you beat me to it!!!

OK - MA moms in Diego Garcia - SPEAK UP!!! We want to hear from you!!

Comment by janieflorida on March 1, 2010 at 8:56pm: I'll pray for your son. I am sure the Navy will take good care of him. Navy medical is among the best.

Comment by ScorpioMom on February 26, 2010 at 7:43pm: Doreen, Congrats to your Son!! Mine was at KB for three yrs and loved it there!! He was a Tower Guard then Coxswain on Moose boats crazy stories of boredom every day. Met his wife (also a MAA) there, she is now out and he's in Bahrain until June then they will go to Italy. Be sure to go visit him there is so much to do and see Savannah and Jekyll Island are amazing, lots of beautiful beaches! April, May or Sept, Oct. are best for weather. Hope he enjoys it but FYI drive smart the cops love giving tickets!

Comment by lemonelephant on February 25, 2010 at 9:20pm: A School for MAs is mostly at Lackland Airforce Base near San Antonio,TX. Some have also had it at Hampton Roads, VA or Kings Bay, GA in the past, but I don't see too many going to those places lately.

Comment by Sailor'sWifey on February 25, 2010 at 8:50pm: Hello everyone? Is there an MA school in Mississippi? My bf is still in bc but he keeps mentioning Mississippi for A school.. He is going in as MA so Im really confused :(

Comment by janieflorida on February 25, 2010 at 8:22am: Jasmine make sure you join San Antonio MA school group

Comment by Tabitha on February 24, 2010 at 9:22pm: go ahead and mail it...i sent my hubby 2 boxes while he was in holding!! he will get it as soon as it gets there! =)

Comment by Tabitha on February 24, 2010 at 9:24am: jasmine: my hubby is graduating from Lackland this Friday WOOHOO! Your BF will basicaly be in school from 7am-4pm sometimes earlier or maybe later, depending on what classes they are! Just be very understanding when he isn't able to talk or communicate alot in a single day, they are squeezing ALOT in over the 7-8 weeks of training! If you have any question, feel free to ask =) Good luck to your new sailor!