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:
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 lemonelephant on September 25, 2013 at 2:07am
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Caitsmamma, the boxes in the Family Pack are the same ones that you can get at the Post Office. I like that it contains tape that lasts quite a while. I replenish my supply of labels and boxes at the Post Office as needed since the Post Office is nearby for me. See Free USPS Packaging for Family and Friends of Service Members.
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Comment by chriscwick on September 24, 2013 at 10:06pm
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Hey y'all, got a phone number 1-800-610-8734 for you to the USPS to order & have them send out a M litany Care Kit to you. It's a free service. They'll send you various sizes of "If It Fits, It Ships" military boxes, along with tape, customs forms & protective sleeves for same. They saved me a lot of time, trouble & a bit of money when shipping to FPOs & military addresses. Used them to send goodies to the sand for three years! Worked well.
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Comment by JustCathy on September 24, 2013 at 12:04pm
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Hi Caitsmamma, I just shipped my son a package yesterday and used the Priority mail boxes. In previous shipments, I have packaged them myself and paid more for shipping. This was by far the easiest and cheapest. Just be aware you will have to indicate the contents and put a $ value on it. I use a local shipping business versus the post office, and the paperwork is all done online and then printed out. Much more efficient than the PO. It only takes a week to get my son's package from Cal. to Bahrain. Best of luck!
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Comment by Caitsmamma on September 24, 2013 at 11:44am
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Hi everyone! I vaguely remember that the US Post Office provides special flat rate boxes that we can use to send our care packages in. I went on the USPS website, but I am unsure if these boxes are any different than the usual flat rate boxes they provide. Does anyone know? Thanks.
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Amazonannie, give me more info on that. Put your comments in Break down week by week so I can update that. Thanks
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Comment by sweetlove143 on September 16, 2013 at 9:43pm
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@Krose018,
Congrats on your marriage! I hope you have a wonderful day Friday! I'll send you a personal message here in a minute. I would love to stay in contact with you because yes, I'll probably need a list of apartments and all kinds of other things along the way. I'm SO overwhelmed and I haven't even begun! lol
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Comment by Krose018 on September 16, 2013 at 8:05pm
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@ Sweetlove143,
I know how you feel. And it just so happens that my fiance just got out of the MA-A school. He has orders to go to Kings Bay. We are going to get married this friday and we will be going down there next week to report to his orders. If you want someone to talk to or need any advice I would be more than willing to speak with you and help you out. I am going to ask you a question. Just go a head and send me a personal message after you see this post. Is your boyfriend doing Navy Police or the PRP program? Also do you need a list of apartments and what not? I would be willing to even chat with you over the phone if you need some support. I know the feeling you have right now.
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Happy to help.
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Thanks lemonelephant and chriscwick! We will check this out!
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Hi everyone. I'm a new Navy girlfriend and my sailor is an MA in King's Bay. I was wondering if anyone has an MA stationed there? I'll be moving there in a couple of months and I'd like to get to know more about what to expect from someone else's perspective - not that my sweetie doesn't tell me everything I need to know, it's just different coming from someone else who's been through it. :) Any advice? Anything you wish someone would have told you about what it's like being with an MA? Anyone familiar with King's Bay? I'd love to get to know anyone who might be there with their MA, as I won't know anyone else when I get there! Thanks, Jamie.
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