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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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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 hollyP(03/025) on April 9, 2012 at 10:49pm: Hello,,, my son will be going to San Antonio around April 22 for MAA hes been in Pensacola since Jan 7th...he was suppose to be in Avation Electronics or some such thing but had a rough time since it involved Math and that is NOT one of his strong points. so he changed to MAA which i think he will be much happier with.When he enlisted he took what they had to offer. SO ladies spill your guts and let me know all there is to know!!! thanks :)

Comment by lemonelephant on April 9, 2012 at 10:40pm: Welcome suems2. You may also want to join San Antonio MA's (clickable link) and check out the Discussions there.

Comment by chriscwick on April 9, 2012 at 9:05pm: Ooh-yah! Welcome aboard

Comment by suems2 on April 9, 2012 at 8:48pm: Hello. I just found out this past week that my son will soon begin MAA school in San Antonio, TX in about 2 months. Looking forward to becoming part of MAA Moms.

Comment by chriscwick on April 4, 2012 at 8:21am: WARNING: gushing, besotted mom posting.

Morning!

A young lady, I guess in MWD school with Chris, has posted pics &, lucky for us, "tagged" him on FB! I threw a couple of them onto N4Ms Bahrain Moms & a bunch into my page's photo albums. (Still getting the hang of doing that!) That smile of his lit up our house, he just looks soooo happy. Proves he's right where he should be. Made our evening.

Comment by Momship on March 24, 2012 at 8:50am: Susan thank you so much. Hugs to you. Will keep your son in prayer everyday, I pray for all our troops, they are "our" children. I also have a son who has been in the AF for just over a year and loves it. I know what a roller coaster ride it is and I am truely blessed for the wingsisters that I have met. The Navy is a whole new ball game & I have found the Navy moms to be so genuinely caring and supportive. I too am on fb, if you would like to have contact there please let me know, until I get this site down I am much more comfortable there, I have my security settings just where I want them, hugs again and God Bless your son & God Bless America.

Comment by Momship on March 24, 2012 at 12:27am: Thanks Brenda Sue

Comment by Brenda Sue on March 23, 2012 at 11:35pm: Vamom, mine has been a MA for almost five years. He went to A school in Damn Neck, Virginia! He got stationed in Portsmouth. He is also part of a MSRON. He is currently on his fourth (and last) deployment! He has spent lots of time in Spain, Italy, the Persian Gulf area - all over the place! WELCOME!!

PS - I live in Texas, so any state specific questions - please feel free to ask!