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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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A group for moms of "Master At Arms" sailors.
Members: 630
Latest Activity: Oct 4, 2023
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".
Discussion Forum
GITMO
Started by Julie. Last reply by IdahoMom Dec 8, 2018. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Graduation Dates
Started by MA mom of KY. Last reply by MainemomJulie May 30, 2017. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by lemonelephant on May 20, 2012 at 3:06am
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Welcome CUPCAKE and thanks for your service.
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Comment by CUPCAKE on May 20, 2012 at 1:26am
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Hi ladies, I am new here. I just got home a month ago. I graduated from A school and i am now a master at arms :) i am a reservist
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Comment by chriscwick on May 16, 2012 at 10:01am
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Day 3
I still think Chris put a contract out on his Dad & myself! Am dreading tomorrow when all those muscles I've mistreated will seek their revenge! OUCH! Oh! & I ran a quarter mile, I don't run, ever. I power walk @ a four mile an hour pace, that's it. I think even my eyelashes are pissed off. Can't imagine why...oh, yeah, I can. Any time spent with Chris... Well, you all understand.
Went to see Avengers this evening, good flick. It was an eat in type. Beer, wine, etc., full menu, comfy seats. A first for us, cool, pricey, but cool.
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Hey there,
Day 2 with Chris. Got to spend only a couple hours with him. Disappointed, but understand. He's up at 04:00, full day, Cross Fit & then we want a piece of him. We did experience a baseline Cross Fit while he did his, full on, thing. I was happy we lived through it & surprised Al & I did as well as we did!
Earlier in the day After exploring a gun shop, we (Alex & I) had wonderful Mexican at Los Barrios, YUM - YUM! Owner/chef has won a couple throw downs with Bobby Flay. We concur with the judgements!
Al & I spent the evening doing a bit of laundry, eating Olive Garden LO's & pop corn.
Today, we're gonna wander a Japanese garden and or if it rains we'll hit a movie, maybe Avengers!
BTW: the Best Western a mile from Lackland is lovely! Very happy with our choice. The road system here has a bit of a learning curve!
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Happy Mother's Day!
Made it to Louisianna for the night. Eight more hours till I CAN HUG THE DOG HAIR OFF HIM!
Happy Mother's Day! Hope the calls, Skypes, texts come rolling in on your special day. Appreciate you all so much.
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Thanks for the well wishes! We've gotten to Mississippi!
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chriscwick, stay safe and enjoy the time you have together.
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Well, ladies, getting all set to head out to TX for C school graduation. Can hardly wait to get our, pardon the pun, paws on him. Been almost a year since last visit. Arriving early so we can get in time with our guy since he heads back to the sand the day after he graduates. May not see him for another year & a half.
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Comment by Phyllis S. (Ship 11/Div.131) on May 10, 2012 at 5:46pm
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Laurie, my son's PIR was April 27th and he flew out to San Antonio on Sat., April 28th at 6:35 a.m. There were about 60+/- that flew to San Antonio on his flight alone. So we met him at the airport at 2:00 a.m. and waited with him until he was going to board his flight. We also spent all day Friday with him after PIR. He had to be back at the base by 8:00 but we dropped him off at 7:30 because we had been told to drop him off a 1/2 hour before he needed to be back.
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Laurie, you will normally have from 10:30 until evening on the day of PIR with him. However, if he is moved to holding to fly sometime during the following week, he will have to check in and then he will call you to pick him up and you will have daytime Liberty over the weekend with him from about 7 am to 8:30 pm or so. That happens rarely for our group, but it has happened.
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