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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 Karen(Nick's Mom) on August 4, 2012 at 9:45am: Hi everybody! I'm new to the group. My son, Nick, is set to graduate A school next Friday Aug 10 and will be coming home for 2 weeks before he ships out to Italy. Italy sounds so very far away. I have mixed feelings. I'm sad that he will be so far away, but he is so excited to get to go to Italy. He has always wanted to go there.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 3, 2012 at 10:27pm: It was wonderful. Thanks.

Comment by chriscwick on August 3, 2012 at 11:39am: LE > welcome back! Hope your vacation was great.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 3, 2012 at 10:14am: proudmama, A School is at Lackland AFB near San Antonio. Join the group, San Antonio MA's (clickable link), and you will find a lot of the answers to your questions in the discussions there; if not, ask on here or on there. Several of the C Schools are located at Lackland AFB, but many Sailors never go to C School after A School although they will have lots of on the job training; it just depends on what they end up doing over the course of their career. My Sailor has had C School for Fleet Corrections Specialist and a few on here have Sailors who have gone to C School for MWD Handler. Those C Schools are both at Lackland AFB.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 3, 2012 at 10:07am: PNM Carolyn, There is not a separate group for those with MA's in Japan. You might start a Discussion above. There is a group, Japan Mom's (clickable link), that you could check out.

Comment by PNM Carolyn ( MAA MOM ) on August 3, 2012 at 8:50am: Good morning everyone , just wondering is there a group for MAs in misawa Japan ? My son is going there :/

Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on August 2, 2012 at 5:22pm: Hi all, I am new to your group- once my daughter signs her new contract for MA I will be thrilled- she was contracted for ut shipping out in October.. I need to know all there is about the MA rating, where the A and C schools are. thank you!

Comment by NavyFam on July 26, 2012 at 2:02am: My son won't get to A school until after Aug 17, but he is in the Reserves. Are there any other moms of MAA reservists here?

Comment by chriscwick on July 12, 2012 at 2:53pm: Your sailor can ask someone attending to get some shots also. Some emailed to us or posted on FB. That's how we got some pics during school! They would "tag" our sailor so it would pop up in our stream!

Comment by Momship on July 12, 2012 at 2:43pm: hi, is there anyone who will or know of someone who be at lackland tomorrow 7/13 for the MA graduation ceremony, unable to attend would love to have a picture, thank you so much. this sailor mom would appreciate it so much.