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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 July 30, 2013 at 2:03pm
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Bird Mom1, your SR is fine. If he weren't, you would receive a call and that is not a call you want to receive. Remember, "No news is good news!" See the info in . Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) to let you know what is happening.
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Comment by Mike803 on July 30, 2013 at 10:21am
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Question, Is the MA Badge worn on the left or right side of the uniform? Every law enforcement agency I have ever seen wears their badge of the left side of the uniform but I have also seen MA's wear the badge on the right side. Which is correct?
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Comment by Bird MomShip13Div363 on July 30, 2013 at 8:04am
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Good Morning!
Thank you for the information lemonelephant. I am still waiting on his box and letter. It will be a week tomorrow that he has left! It is so hard waiting and not knowing what he is doing and if he is ok, especially after seeing him and talking to him daily since then. I am looking forward to knowing his PIR date, so that I can make my reservations and have something to look forward to.
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Bird Mom1, you can mail him a phone card (or the free ones from CallsforRecruits@gmail.com) when you have his address. See Phone Cards and Phone Calls within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) for more on that. I invite you again to join that group.
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aileen3mc, be sure to join San Antonio MA's as well.
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Thank you!!!! :)
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Comment by aileen3mc on July 29, 2013 at 9:24am
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If you go on to the great lakes BC site it should have an address but not what division he's in. the box should come first. Takes about a week or two. That site will tell you what each week looks like and you will meet other parents from your sons class. This is helpful as other parents are going through the same thing you are. Figure on eight to nine Weeks for bc. If he is not delayed. The ladies who run that page are a wealth of information.
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Good Morning!!
Thank you for the information. I am waiting very anxiously for his "letter" and PIR date so that I can book a lodge. Not talking to him is soooooo frustrating. Wednesday will be one week only :( Can I mail him a phone card with my first couple letters? or should I wait until he gets out of BC and I see him on his PIR date to give it to him.
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Hi, my son just completed boot camp and is scheduled to graduate A school on Friday. BC is hard, I think hardest on us parents because of not hearing from them. I can say your sailor may get home sick and when they call keep upbeat. They will be fine and when they graduate and you ask him would you do it again? The answer will be yes. Every day is a new challenge for you and your sailor, it's hard and both of you will be stronger and improved from the experience. Good luck and keep us posted on how everything is going. :)
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Bird Mom1, yes, once your Sailor gets to Lackland, he will be able to call you when he is not in class or on duty. Once P-days are over at BC, your SR will average about 7 hours of sleep, sometimes more sometimes less. At Lackland, your Sailor will determine his bedtime to some degree unless he has watch or other duties in the evening, so he will be able to get in 8 hours or more most nights. He will most likely share a room with one or two other Sailors, so that will have some effect on that.
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