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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.

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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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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

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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 Momship on June 15, 2012 at 10:07am: Hi all, I am sitting tight here since my stepson is currently at Lackland for A-school. But, I having been reading the posts here and just want to give everyone a hug. Yes, we are in this together and very few understand this military mom thing like we do. So thankful for the connections we have. No only are we dealing with being a military mom, but also dealing with growing older ourselves and seeing our children go off in the world to do great things, leaving many of us with an empty nest. I also have a son serving in another branch, stationed on the west coast, TX & CA are so far away from VA. I haven't had to deal with any overseas destinatons yet, but my time will come & we will all get by with a little help from our friends. GOD BLESS AMERICA! p.s. I am blessed with my children, seems like I have talked to them more since they left home than I did their last year of high school : )

Comment by vk12392 on June 14, 2012 at 7:37pm: Sad to say when our sons take a wife we somehow become the shadow. Im fortunate enough to have unmarried boys at this time. Keep in mind sometimes our children think they are bothering us to come see them. Make your point known and talk to your son.When our sons have to keep the wives happy it breaks our heart but as long as he is not suffering just role with the punches. He loves you and things will work out. Try not to go against the grain and realize when they take a wife we as moms have to release our sons to her....Hang on there and bug the daughter in law that's what I would do!!!

Comment by chriscwick on June 14, 2012 at 10:42am: How's it going ladies? Trioguem, glad you popped up on Bahrain Mom's. We're here to get you/us through this. We NAVY Moms should by stock in tissue companies! Hold on, "fair winds, following seas" everyone.

Comment by Phyllis S. (Ship 11/Div.131) on June 14, 2012 at 9:11am: Trloguem I can even imagine my son going overseas. I am lucky in the sense that my son will be stationed in CA after A School and believe me that is hard enough for me since we live in CT. After his leave I don't know when I will see him again but I keep telling myself that this is what he wants to do and he is very happy with his choice. I'm an older mom also and he is the youngest. My daughter lives nearby so that helps also. I cry at the drop of a hat where my son is concerned also and my son, husband and daughter laugh and say there goes mom again. They are used to it and just accept it. I think Adele-MA Mom's advice is really good. My heart goes out to you and hope things get better for you soon.

Comment by lemonelephant on June 11, 2012 at 9:26pm: Momship, I've been told that it is easier to set up the Skype account on a computer/laptop and then sign in on an iphone than to try to set up an account on the iphone first. I don't have an iphone so I don't know first hand and my Sailor had a Skype account before his iphone, so I really can't ask him about that.

Comment by lemonelephant on June 11, 2012 at 9:14pm: Emily, your Sailor may want to check out unlimited calls to US and Canada with Skype. It is only $2.99 a month. That's what my Sailor did in Greece and Japan and continues to use now that he is stateside.

Comment by Phyllis S. (Ship 11/Div.131) on June 11, 2012 at 9:13pm: My son is going to an airforce based after A school also. He will be in California and I have been wondering about the housing issue also. I never knew that the Navy had sailors on airforce bases.

Comment by Momship on June 11, 2012 at 9:11pm: Oovoo works on your phone, I couldn't get skype to work on mine. Greece, nice

Comment by lemonelephant on June 11, 2012 at 8:56pm: Emily, yes, Skype will become your friend.

Comment by Emily MA PIR 5/11/12 on June 11, 2012 at 8:47pm: Just learned today that my daughter will be going to Greece. That was her first choice and she is so excited. I am excited for her because she is excited, but knowing she will be so far away, wow... at least it will be beautiful.... Guess I need to master Skype...!