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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 Speak

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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 michelledubicki on October 17, 2012 at 11:21am: Anyone has a boyfriend/husband for MA?

Comment by SailorB-Man,Ship3,Div330 on October 17, 2012 at 8:57am: Likes the videos on this site. Hopefully this site will help get us newbie MA moms some insight as to what happens weekly. This is my son's first wk at Lackland. Thanks in advance for any helpful information

Comment by lemonelephant on October 12, 2012 at 11:50pm: Wecome BP's mom. Check out the discussions in San Antonio MA's (clickable link),

Comment by BP's mom Ship 003 Div 337 on October 12, 2012 at 11:15pm: Hi everybody!! New to the group-son just has his PIR tonight so I figured it was time to switch to this page instead of boot camp! He's leaving for A school tomorrow, not sure what happens from here. I have learned quite a bit from this site but not enough to know anything about MA.This is my next step so school me on what to expect please! Thanks!! :0)

Comment by MountainMama(ship3 div081) on October 12, 2012 at 6:15pm: My son has to choose orders for overseas. Any suggestions or advice, what's good, what to avoid....any input welcome. Thanks!!!

Comment by mski73 on October 12, 2012 at 12:23am: My daughters class graduates tomorrow from A school, but half her class hasnt recieved thier orders with thier tickets! Anyone else going through the same thing?

Comment by chriscwick on October 6, 2012 at 9:10am: Momship
WOOF!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by jennnyj on October 5, 2012 at 7:50pm: My husband just got orders to Oceana in Virginia Beach! As an MA I guess he will be guarding the planes? Anyone have more information about what they do at air squadrons? Do they deploy with them on the ships? Thanks!

Comment by Momship on October 5, 2012 at 9:06am: Hugs all, yes it does occasionally happen, happened to mine, hope all is well with you and yours.

Comment by lemonelephant on September 25, 2012 at 11:50pm: proudmama, to add to what has been said, it would be unusual for someone fresh out of "A" School to get to go to "C" School for Military Working Dog (MWD) Handler although it does occasionally happen. If your Sailor wants to pursue a billet as a MWD Handler, she needs to take every opportunity to get to know the dogs, handlers, and Kennel Master at her first duty station (or at Lackland if she has time) so that when she is eligible, she can be considered for "C" School and an open billet in that NEC (Navy Enlisted Classification Code). That would also help her to know if that is what she wants to do because after "C" School, she would have at leat a 4 year commitment to MWD. (See http://navynavadmin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/necvol2.pdf and click on NEC SERIES 2000-2999.)