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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

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 lemonelephant on January 11, 2013 at 4:40pm: HeatherT, no, there is nothing ahead of time. He will have to meet you at the gate. Have him meet you at the gate the night before to get the paperwork you need to be on base to make things faster the next day. There is a discussion within San Antonio MA's.

Comment by HeatherT(09/003) on January 11, 2013 at 1:24pm: My son graduates on the 1st of February I am trying to go to the graduation but I need details.....
Is there a service there like there is with Sarg in Chicago? And what is the best places to stay etc? It will his gig and I going so 2 females o
Alone want to feel safe. Only need 2 nights. Please help!
Also need approximate taxi prices and how do we get on base to see him and Etc etc....
Oh and how far from San Antonio airport to the best places and the base?
Good places to eat also would be helpful.
Thanks in advance

Comment by LoriK (Ship 02 Div 908) on January 10, 2013 at 9:38pm: My son arrived @ Lackland on Saturday from RTC. Training began yesterday. It's great getting his texts and hearing how glad he is to be through with boot camp and how nice the base is.

Comment by lemonelephant on January 5, 2013 at 2:19pm: kadie1, since the fall of 2008, the only "A" School for MA is at Lackland AFB near San Antonio. Here is the Rating Information Card for MA: https://www.cool.navy.mil/enlisted/rating_info_cards/ma.pdf. "A" School is 7 weeks, but some are in Holding a week or 2, so the card indicates 9 weeks. Be sure to check out the top 3-4 Discussions in San Antonio MA's.

Comment by kadie1 on January 5, 2013 at 12:34pm: Why is there a difference in calendar days for MAA training. The school at Lackland is 40 days, while Kings Bay and Hampton Rd, Va. is days?

Comment by lemonelephant on January 2, 2013 at 10:36pm: BridgetteH, sometime between now and the end of BC, join the group San Antonio MA's and be sure to check out the top 3-4 discussions. Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for....

Comment by BridgetteH on January 2, 2013 at 8:47pm: I'm new here. My son leaves for BC 1/15.

Comment by hollyP(03/025) on January 1, 2013 at 11:58pm: is anyone's MAA at Offutt AFB? that's where mine is.

Comment by Brenda on December 30, 2012 at 7:29pm: Hello everyone, my daughter starts training next week for MA. Looking forward to talking to you Mom's

Comment by lemonelephant on December 17, 2012 at 9:54pm: shannon and any others with a recruit still in BC or a Sailor who recently arrived in SA, join the group San Antonio MA's and be sure to check out the top 3-4 discussions.