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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 roe821 (Ship 02/ Div 948) on October 2, 2011 at 3:54pm: Thanks lemonelephant. My SRs PIR is 10/14 and then he's headed for San Antonio.

Comment by lemonelephant on October 2, 2011 at 3:40pm: If you have a Sailor headed to or at SA for A School, be sure to join, San Antonio MA's.

Comment by lemonelephant on October 2, 2011 at 3:39pm: They can have them as soon as they get there, but can only use them at certain times. Now that many are able to meet their Sailors at the airport, it sure saves on shipping and the communication can start much quicker.

Comment by roe821 (Ship 02/ Div 948) on October 2, 2011 at 3:28pm: Hi Ladies, When your Sailors left GL for A school were they permitted their cell phones/laptops etc, or did they have to wait till they phased us?

Comment by lemonelephant on October 2, 2011 at 2:53pm: He has to go through it and pass or he won't pass. It is pretty bad, but he can have baby shampoo with him ready to wash up with afterward and can have a milk product in his room to put on to relieve the burn, which will help some. The others will be there cheering him on.

Comment by chriscwick on October 2, 2011 at 9:30am: MA3 Chris (Bahrain) says, "worst he'd experienced". But got over it well. Check UTube Military OC Spray. Not comforting, but better than unknown. Water & neutralizer onboard to help out. No lasting physicsl effects, but he certainly will remember the experience. It's for OC Certification & a right of passage, I think. Gotta know what it's like to use it judiciously.

Comment by Miss Suzanne on October 2, 2011 at 4:17am: Hello ladies,
I get the impression that my son is a bit worried about the OC being sprayed in his eyes. He told me that the burning doesn't go away for a long time.
Does anyone have any info on this that I can give him to try to set his mind at ease a bit? He starts A-school this week (Monday, 10-3-11)

Anything would help. I did watch the above video, but I don't know anyone who's actually experienced it.

Thanks! 
Suzanne

Comment by Englishmum on September 28, 2011 at 11:21pm: He feels it went well. Hopes to hear how he did on quartley blue jacket this week, the one today was for the Year and I guess as an MA2 that's pretty good

Comment by chriscwick on September 27, 2011 at 5:55am: HooYah! Good luck with the Blue Jackets

Comment by Englishmum on September 26, 2011 at 10:14pm: My son is going in for Blue Jacket Board Review on Weds; hope it goes well. He has been working so hard