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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 Hartmann82 on March 2, 2013 at 12:25pm: swaneyboyz03 my son will be graduating from boot camp 03/08/13 and then will be off the next day to the Navy Law Enforcement Academy. I have seen some great videos on U-tube of MA. After my son is settled I would be glad to pass your son's name on to him.

Comment by navyboyzrus03 on March 1, 2013 at 7:41pm: Hey,

My son has joined and leaves for basic in May. He scored well on his ASVAB so he has his choice of MOS. He wants to do law Enforcement but his recruiter is also talking at him to do CTI because he excells in foreign lanuages. He wanted to talk to someone who does the MA to see if it is what he wants to do. He wants a job he won't be pinned to a desk and where he can excel. His father has been a LEO for 15 years in the private secetory so he knows about LE. Any comment would be appreciated.

Comment by lemonelephant on February 22, 2013 at 3:05am: Thank you to everyone who voted for Recruit Man-Ronny. When voting closed he was ahead, so I hope that when they declare the winner that it is him. Ronny does a lot for our recruits by providing free phone cards through http://callsforrecruits.org/. While you're thinking about it, if you are able, please make a donation at http://callsforrecruits.org/ to help with the cost of the cards.

Comment by lemonelephant on February 21, 2013 at 5:24pm: Today is the last day to vote. If you don't know what I'm talking about, visit my page at http://www.navyformoms.com/profile/lemonelephant and read the Comment Wall. Thanks.

Comment by lemonelephant on February 11, 2013 at 12:28am: snowmanmom, I have heard of individuals being moved to another class for failing at various points, but not the whole class.

Comment by snowmanmom on February 10, 2013 at 11:14pm: We are hoping to go to our Sailors graduation in Tx but he told us that even though he has a date that if the division messes up it will set the whole division back not just one person. Has this happened often, I really want to budget and try to attend.

Comment by chriscwick on February 9, 2013 at 10:47am: Happy third year enlistment anniversary to my sand sailing dog handler son! HOOYAH!

Comment by chriscwick on January 23, 2013 at 5:19pm: FYI

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For those who mail to FPO addresses, here's some new info:

Mail uses new address format for military
The U.S. Postal Service recently mandated that all letters sent to overseas military installations be addressed with a nine-digit zip code, starting this month. The policy change came with an upgrade to the Postal Service's mail-sorting system and the opening of an additional centralized gateway for receiving and shipping government mail.
The new mail-sorting system will enable mail to be delivered and sorted quicker by giving the sorting machines another way to divide the mail. The new address format will include the box number as a four-digit number at the end of the zip code.

For example:

John Smith

PSC 999 Box 82

FPO AE 09622-0082

For more information, visit the post office website at www.usps.com/ship/apo-fpo-guidelines.htm (http://www.usps.com/ship/apo-fpo-guidelines.htm) .