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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

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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JPG – 3.4 MB
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 janieflorida on January 1, 2010 at 9:22am: Hi PKay: You will be able to talk to your sailor on a regular basis. He can have his cell phone. And you can go to his graduation ceremony in 2 months. Generally they get leave for 2 weeks before they go to their duty station. Study, study it is a lot of academics. Make sure you join the SA moms group. You can see the week by week program. Happy New Year all

Comment by janieflorida on December 28, 2009 at 9:05am: Dear Melissa, They can go anywhere in the world. Depending upon their class rank they get to pick 3 choices of what is available. It doesn't mean that they will get that. The graduation from A school is great if you can get to it. Your sailor will have more freedom than they had at recruit training command. Happy New Year all

Comment by lemonelephant on December 27, 2009 at 1:54am: I hope that you all had a good Christmas and that you got to speak with your sailor if you couldn't be together.

Comment by janieflorida on December 18, 2009 at 4:21pm: Thanks Ladies, Stephen has guard duty on Chirstmas eve and Christmas Day.
He does have a cousin who lives within an hour of the base and he will see him and his family over the holidays. Deborah put a tree up and keep volunteering. It helps. God bless and keep all our sailors over the holidays and the same to all the moms

Comment by janieflorida on December 17, 2009 at 7:44pm: This is my first Christmas without Stephen ever. He seems to be handling it better than me.

Comment by lemonelephant on November 23, 2009 at 2:03am: Trying for SEALS would have been a choice the sailor made before bootcamp. Some find that their choice doesn't work for them and see the detailer and make a change to a different rate either in BC or once they begin on the journey after BC(MA is one rate).

Comment by lemonelephant on November 23, 2009 at 1:45am: BUDs is Basic Underwater Demolition training, which is part of the training for SEALS and pre-BUDS is the training required to qualify to go on.

Comment by janieflorida on November 22, 2009 at 12:40pm: Stephen is stationed at Travis airforce base for 2 years, but will be deployed within 3 months, but Travis is considered his home base. I don't know about Naval stations, but Travis is where units are deployed from. Peter would know if he is going to be deployed. After Steve picked Travis, they told him expect to be deployed. Our kids belong to the military and they go where they are needed.

Comment by janieflorida on November 22, 2009 at 8:29am: Donnita I emailed you, our ladies group will take care of that sailor, all we need is a name and address. Stephen leaves today for his drive across country to Travis in California, we had a great weekend. Have your sailors ask questions about duty stations. Stephen found out after he picked California that it meant deployment. He says he is ready and it is his job. God bless all our troops.

Comment by lemonelephant on November 22, 2009 at 1:03am: The choices of duty stations is based on the needs of the Navy. It is very important that your sailor do well on the tests while in A School because when there is a choice of duty stations, the sailors get to pick in order of their scores up to that point in A School, from highest to lowest until the choice is gone.