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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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 boocoo on October 5, 2013 at 12:45am
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chriscwick, were you allowed to ever go visit your MA in Bahrain?
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Comment by chriscwick on October 4, 2013 at 6:22pm
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My MA2 is just stateside after three years in the sandbox. Good duty, unrest isn't aimed at the NAVY., but is nonetheless worrisome. Mine lived in an off base flat. Loved it. He found his true calling in the sand, he's a MAMWD Handler now. He met wonderful people, hated the humidity & heat. Good, sometimes long duty shifts. Check out the N4M Bahrain Moms page. 5th Fleet also has a FB page you can explore.
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Comment by Bird MomShip13Div363 on October 4, 2013 at 8:19am
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Good Morning!
Can any experienced MAA moms tell me what to expect. My son is in A school now. Worried about where he will be shipped. Can anyone tell me some good stories?? LOL. He mentioned Bahrain, never heard of it :( I guess being a very over protected, worried mom, I am hoping he stays in the US.
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Comment by lemonelephant on September 30, 2013 at 6:48pm
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Yes, you have to put total value of everything on each line. I never worry about weight just final weight and the PO does that.
As for my Username, I made a ceramic elephant when I was in 6th grade that I glazed lemon yellow. I still have it and it gave me the idea for my Username.
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Comment by sunshinefam on September 26, 2013 at 1:05pm
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Thx.
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Comment by Caitsmamma on September 26, 2013 at 10:44am
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Lemonelephant, thank you so much for clarifying that for me!! Did you also itemize the weight and $ value also, as requested on the form? I have to pay more attention when I pack these boxes because I will have to rip this one open now to see what I stuck in there, ha ha. By the way, I have been dying to ask, how did you choose your screen name? :)
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Caitsmamma, be general but specific enough that anyone opening the box would agree that what is listed is indeed in the box and you can group items and list more than one item per line. If you ever have to ship a uniform item (a forgotten cover, for example--I've done that twice), list it as "clothing item" not as "Navy hat". I sent a box with items for a birthday party and listed "food items: cake mix, frosting, candy; birthday candles, plasticware and paper goods for party, party favors... You don't have to list every single item. When I sent my daughter (not Navy) her jewelry box, I listed it as "wooden box with decors" and also added something else on the same line. Do make sure the number of separate items matches the contents.
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sunshinefam, Once your Sailor is in "A" School and thereafter, you can send care packages as well as letters. You jut have to be sure everything meets the USPS stadards. At BC, your SR can only have letters for the most part. (See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit for what you can send in BC.)
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Hi Lemonelephant, I am confused. .are the Sr allowed to receive care packages or letters only?
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Hi Ladies, I have another shipping question. I am filling out the Customs form 2976-A and it is asking for a "detailed description of contents, enter one item per line." How specific do I need to get? I loaded the box with dried fruit, 3 different kinds of peanut butter, candy, hygiene products -- I don't even remember what I put in there anymore, much less how much each weighs and what the value is...??
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