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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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MAA Moms
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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
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Comment by C'sMom on November 13, 2020 at 10:12am
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VintageGal, I feel the same way about your son! I'm still hoping my son can go with yours, but based on your experience, it's probably too much to hope for. Has he been there two weeks just holding?
kim, so glad to hear your sailor really likes it down there!
So I heard something yesterday that's a little disheartening! I got a new dryer, and my husband was in the basement with the delivery men. I'm not sure how they got into the conversation, but my husband found out one of them was a former marine. He was telling the guy about our son and what he was doing. The guy said that our son should be prepared to not be liked. He said in the Marines no one liked the MPs . They had quotas to hit and they were ruthless. Hopefully it's different in the Navy!
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Comment by kim's husband Troy on November 13, 2020 at 8:34am
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Fingers crossed for today to be the travel day to Texas!!! They need to get these new sailors moved!! Btw, my son loves it there and has so much more freedom. He was actually able to have lunch at the commissary with his uncle who is retired army and works down there.
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Comment by VintageGal on November 12, 2020 at 6:48pm
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Hi ya’ll! :) that’s my Texas accent! It’s the plan for him to leave tomorrow but I haven’t talk to him today so I’m not sure if anything has changed.
Csmom - that would be great if he was able to leave tomorrow with the rest of the MA Sailors! I feel like my son graduated so long ago and has been hanging out!
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kim, we need to get retrotex and VintageGal on here. I should hopefully be active on here soon! I'm hoping my SR can leave with VintageGal's sailor tomorrow, but that might be too much to hope for.
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C'sMom - I hope so too!! Keep hanging in there!!
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Hopefully, I will be an active member soon! Lol!
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Hello all, just wanted to reach out to see how many active members are here? My future MA arrived in Texas last week for A-school and is scheduled to begin training next week. He is attending the "life skills" classes this week.
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Never mind that was just their services
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Hey ladies I don’t know where I got this link (their website or maybe from this website- I have the memory of a gnat) but it’s an update on Lackland Air Force Base and MA training :)
https://www.jbsa.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=fg7RqTmROjM%3d&p...
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Kim - hi Kim I sent you a friend request :)
I hear you on that! I’ve been trying to check out a lot of videos. I feel like the more I know the better I feel!
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