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:
Events
**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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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'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
Comment Wall
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Comment by Micka on May 1, 2014 at 7:21pm
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Hi My name is Mika and my son just graduated MAA last fri and will be headed to GA soon. A little about myself, I am a former Navy wife (my husband served 85-91). I am a mother of 3 and Nonna of 1 LOL. My 2 sons are both Navy, the oldest is a Nuke (followed in his dad's footsteps) and my youngest is MAA. I am looking forward to being part of this group
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Comment by CindyW on April 4, 2014 at 3:27pm
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He has made some great friends while there. Their shifts are 12 hours but once he adjusted to that, he likes it. Since it's an island, they spend a lot of time at the beach, riding jet skis, horseback riding and of course at the mall. We are able to communicate by text and also FaceTime on the iPad but it's been 15 months since he has been home. Hoping he gets to take leave this summer.since you are a Navy wife and mom already, you probably have a better grasp on all of this than most. Hope you get to make it to SA.
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This group actually gets very active at times. It runs in spurts. As with all things, sometimes life gets in the way and we don't post often. Congrats to your son and to you. A school is much easier for you to deal with because you will have more frequent contact. Where do you live? If it's possible for you to make it to his badge ceremony at the end of A school, make sure that you do. We are from the Ft Worth area so we were able to attend. Our son has been in for almost 2 years and is stationed in Bahrain now
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Comment by Nancy Cooper's Mom on February 28, 2014 at 2:42am
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Any information would be wonderful! He will arrive there in Diego sometime in the next 15 days. (travel times banned from open forums) I have just become anxious about the isolation and communication. Bahrain was a dream for both.
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Comment by Proudnavymomx2 on February 28, 2014 at 12:53am
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My son is currently stationed in Diego Garcia. He has been there since early Feb. Communication is not what I would like but he contacts us through FB when he can (usually around 3AM my time!!!) Every time I hear the "ding" on my phone, I jump straight up! I know it's him and I don't ever want to miss a chance to talk to him. :-)
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Is there anything he should have shipped to Diego Streetmom? It will be hard not speaking to him on the phone. We could talk all the time in Bahrain. I was on that very Island in 1983, just for a day when I lived in Southeast Asia. Thank you for the info. I hope it will go smoothly for him.
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Comment by lemonelephant on February 27, 2014 at 11:55pm
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Yes, "A" School graduation is on Friday unless there is some reason that it needs to be moved to a different day--a holiday, a change in command, or some other event that causes those in charge to change the date and/or time, which is usually in the morning. My Sailor's "A" School graduation was at 1:00 on a Thursday afternoon due to a change in command on Friday.
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Nicole, graduation from "A" School is nothing like PIR. See Break down week by week, MA A-School Graduation Tips and Graduation Info for Lackland AFB - Navy MA graduation; Places to s....
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Nancy Cooper's Mom, no, there is currently not a group for Diego Garcia. You can always start one and let others know because there are several with loved ones there.
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Comment by streetmom on February 27, 2014 at 11:40pm
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My son is currently stationed at Diego Garcia. Very small but beautiful island. He loves it there but not alot for them to do in their spare time. No phone service but we communicate daily thru Facebook messenger
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