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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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Graduation Info
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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

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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 CC0727 on January 19, 2011 at 12:41pm: does anyone have a sailor who is prp? how are they making out with it?

Comment by chriscwick on January 4, 2011 at 5:39pm: "CC" we had to over-night Chris's bc to him in TX, costly for one sheet of paper, avoid it if possible. He already knew where he was going when he asked for it.

Comment by CC0727 on January 4, 2011 at 11:11am: thank you all for the info. my son asked me yesterday to send him his birth cert and his passport. i am wondering if this means they have alot of overseas billets or if it is standard practice that they all have to provide these regardless of the locations that will be available. i actually have 2 sons in A school right now, so it is twice the wait and see!

Comment by chriscwick on January 3, 2011 at 8:12pm: My "sand sailor" is with MommaBecky's sweet baboo in Bahrain. Chris deployed there out of "A" school in June 2010, when he was "voluntold" to go & to sign up for two years. He, too, is enjoying the island principality. Although, he's not had a camel ride as yet!! At the time "they" were enlarging the base & needed personnel. Please do join us on Bahrain Mom's, I've learned a lot, shared some & enjoyed the group's easy commaraderie, caring & humor.

Comment by Brenda Sue on January 3, 2011 at 7:20pm: CC0727 - mine son's first duty station has been stateside. He has gone to several other places stateside for additional training and he has been deployed 3 times for about 6 - 8 months at a time. Like Kyle's mom said - it all depends on the "needs of the Navy."

Comment by CC0727 on January 3, 2011 at 3:08pm: For the moms whose Sailors are being deployed -- is this their first duty station right out of A school or have they been somewhere stateside first? Just curious. My Sailor is in A school and I am wondering if alot of them go overseas right out of the door.

Comment by chriscwick on December 23, 2010 at 7:14pm: Welcome, you're right where you need to be. Take heart & take care. These ladies are "bobs" ie, best of the best.

Comment by Brenda Sue on December 21, 2010 at 11:38pm: Wow, Donna! Is he going IA or with some squad? My son is currently on his third deployment - but not there!

Comment by chriscwick on December 16, 2010 at 9:49am: MAA Chris heard that too, back in May. He wanted Japan, but was "voluntold" to report to Bahrain for 2 years. He's loving it there. Feels like he's valued by the "brass" and doing a worthwhile job. He says they (brass) are approachable & listen. It's cool there nowadays at 70 degrees! He even asked for flannel sheets for Christmas! I, too, worry each & every day. This is my first Navy Mom deployment of my only child... but this is the job they've chosen, we have to back them up, let them b____ when they want & oooorah when they can. We are NAVY MOMS. Fair winds and following seas ladies! As for the holidays...I listen to "Somewhere out there" from the movie "American Tail:. It brings me some peace and comfort. Hope it does for you too.