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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 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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 lemonelephant on January 16, 2015 at 11:49pm: Nancystj, most of the time only a handful of loved ones attend "A" School graduation ("C" School graduations, too). See the info in Break down week by week and Graduation Info for Lackland AFB - Navy MA graduation within San Antonio MA's.

Comment by Nancystj on January 16, 2015 at 11:40pm: Moms what are your thoughts or experiences with A. School graduation? Do most people go? It's a fairly expensive trip and he's coming home the next day but I'd go if that's what most people do. I am so proud of him and don't want to miss it but its hard to spend so much money again so soon after PIR and the holidays. Just wondering what others think. Thanks moms

Comment by lemonelephant on December 30, 2014 at 5:41pm: You are very welcome.

Comment by Nancystj on December 30, 2014 at 12:48pm: thanks and oops I meant to say 18 months not 1 months. Your info is very helpful as always!!

Comment by lemonelephant on December 30, 2014 at 1:43am: Orders are based on the needs of the Navy. It would be very unusual to get orders for a tour of only a month, but I suppose if a Sailor had a TAD it would be possible, but in that case the Sailor would have orders to a duty station and then have the TAD and then return to the assigned duty station. That could happen with a protection detail and then the orders could be for a few days to a few weeks. Most orders are going to be for 1 year or longer, up to 3 years, and the first duty station is usually for at least a year. Accompanied orders are generally longer than unaccompanied orders; 36 months vs 24 months in most cases. IA orders may be 6 months or less at times.

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/1000/130... will give you an idea of how tour lengths work.

(If I've used a term or abbreviation that you are not familiar with, check What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology).)

Comment by Nancystj on December 29, 2014 at 9:21pm: Thanks! Yes he is still in A school. He's been hearing different things about going overseas anywhere from 1 months to 3 years. Just wondering if that were true. He could be in states but was curious why some overseas places were shorter than others. Guess I'll know soon enough :)

Comment by Nancystj on December 29, 2014 at 6:01pm: Just wondering, is there a set time that they get sent overseas or does it vary by location? Anxiously waiting to find out where he's going so I don't know where it will be. Just wondering. Thanks!

Comment by NovaMom on October 11, 2014 at 9:13pm: Oh my gosh, my sailor called today. He failed an inspection today because he forgot to clean the microwave in his room and the fan blades. He got really chewed out. Is this really a huge deal?

Comment by Holly MA Mom on September 29, 2014 at 9:28pm: Hi NovaMom, - they only have to be sprayed at MA school once, as long as they pass. I heard that they have to have a wipedown (they just wipe their face with a rag of OC stuff) but that's not in A school. Mine graduates tomorrow morning :-)