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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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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 Melh1215(ship 09,div 016) on January 26, 2011 at 8:49pm: Hey everyone! My sailor is going to South Carolina. We're really happy about that. Said it was the most southern state he could've chosen. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it.

But for now, I'm going to visit him in SA this weekend - yay!!!

Comment by Brenda Sue on January 26, 2011 at 8:01pm: My son was on a deployment to Seychelles. When he got there he said it was so perfect he did not care if he just cleaned bathrooms the rest of his military time. After a couple of weeks - he was bored to tears! haha - I guess the "grass is always greener on the other side"

Comment by MWD Mom on January 26, 2011 at 1:33pm: That wa our son' first duty station too!! He enjoyed it but soon tired of "island" life. I'm not sure I understand, ha ha but living someplace is surely different than visiting!!

Comment by Marti Jacob's Mom on January 26, 2011 at 1:15pm: My son just picked Hawaii yesterday for his first duty station he is not done with A school until Feb 17th. I am now going to have to visit.

Comment by chriscwick on January 26, 2011 at 6:46am: Welcome!

Comment by MWD Mom on January 25, 2011 at 11:04pm: Hi, I'm very new to navy4moms!! My son is a MWD Military Working Dog handler, I'm not sure how it works I know his rating is an MA and then his NIC??? is MWD, or at least that's how I'm pretty sure he explained it to me!! I look forward to becoming active on this site. David is deploying late March to

Afghanistan for his second deployment his first was to Iraq with an explosives dog, this time he is taking a narcotics dog. I'm sure I'll need lots of support throught out his deployment and I'll surely be here for others as well!!! If anyone has any "in's and out's" of doig stuff on this site or how to use it to it's fullest I'm open for any suggestions!! Thanks and I look forward to being around here!!

Marie

Comment by chriscwick on January 25, 2011 at 7:02pm: Sorry, mine's in Bahrain.
San Diego has wonderful weather.

Comment by CC0727 on January 25, 2011 at 4:01pm: Thanks Linda. There are so many nice things about all of the areas. : )

Anyone in Kings Bay Georgia?

Comment by Linda-Mom to Brian on January 25, 2011 at 2:35pm: My MA is in San Diego and he likes it there. He likes the weather, base and the mobile security training.

Comment by CC0727 on January 25, 2011 at 12:33pm: hello everyone! looking for some input here...at my sailor's request...does anyone have an MA in San Diego, CA....Charleston, SC or Norfolk VA...or Hawaii? If so, how do they like the area and the base that they are stationed at?