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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 Kayla's mom on October 12, 2013 at 11:19pm: Boocoo..What time did he get to the airport? I'm so curious how much time I will have with my Sr after Pir?

Comment by boocoo on October 12, 2013 at 10:58pm: My new Sailor just landed in SA for MA school. So excited and proud of him!!!!!

Comment by chriscwick on October 10, 2013 at 8:06pm: 2010 - 2013 three long years. He signed for two & stay an extra since they got him MWDH school.

Comment by lemonelephant on October 8, 2013 at 1:25am: navymomsue, check your My Page.

Comment by boocoo on October 8, 2013 at 12:58am: That is a bit steep chriscwick. How long was he over there?

Comment by chriscwick on October 7, 2013 at 8:53am: Boocoo, we didn't visit. Chris discouraged us. This is his first time out from under family & on his own. He was really homesick, but wanted to focus on his new life, career & growing as a man. He is very driven to succeed & does get hyper focused. We gave him that space. During his time there the most inexpensive flights were around $1,200 per person. A bit steep for us.

Comment by chriscwick on October 6, 2013 at 9:21pm: My Chris went straight to "A School" after BC. We did have time on leave before he left for Bahrain for his three.

Comment by Krose018 on October 6, 2013 at 9:13pm: After boot camp you can spend a few hours with your Sailor. Then he will have to go back to the boot camp baracks. But you can see him or her off at the airport. After A school they should have up to 14 days of leave. They have it as long as they do not flunk out of the A-school. My husband told me a few people flunked out of the MA school and they were send "undesignated" into the Navy. If that happens they get no leave. But they get up to 14 days after A school is over to come home or do what ever.

Comment by navymomsue on October 6, 2013 at 8:12pm: Is there a liberty anytime after bc and A school.

Comment by Krose018 on October 6, 2013 at 1:45pm: Bird MomShip13Div363:

Bahrain. Is very safe compared to other parts of the middle east. It is very up scale and wealthy. Not much happens there. It is not a war zone unlike other parts. A few of my husband's friends are there and I have heard a lot of the guys say that they have loved it while there. If he goes there he will be making great money and possibly have a few chances to rank up. My husband did not go since I did not want to be away from him for two years. With being an MA if he is not married he could be put anywhere. The only way to stay stateside for sure would to get in to the PRP program. But they are very selective on who they take. If he wants to do PRP, he can't have even one speeding ticket. MA's only get to choose their orders if they are in the top 5% or so of the test scores.