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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

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

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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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San Antonio MA's

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Going through A School at San Antonio?

Members: 706
Latest Activity: Jun 19, 2022

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Comment by lemonelephant on November 4, 2013 at 11:59pm: The reduced rate for the Flat Rate boxes only applies to boxes sent to APO or FPO or DPO addresses. You will pay the regular flat rate for boxes sent to "A" School. Free USPS Packaging for Family and Friends of Service Members includes the info also. Sometimes it is cheaper to send things in a regular box instead of the Flat Rate box. The postal workers can help you decide which is best.

Comment by lemonelephant on November 4, 2013 at 11:48pm: Lfitzi, check Break down week by week above.

Comment by Lfitzi on November 4, 2013 at 11:25am: Good Morning, I am also new to this group my Son graduated on 11/1 and is now settled in and ready to begin his MA schooling. He has already requested his computer to be shipped - just awaiting his address. Is there anything else I should send him these first few weeks?

Comment by chriscwick on November 4, 2013 at 9:58am: Morning! You can call for "If It Fits, It Ships" Military Care Kits from the USPS at 1-800-610-8734 & they will deliver it to your home address! I've used them, exclusively, the last 3 + years to get things to my MA. Even in the "sandbox" of Bahrain. The kit includes; several size boxes, customs forms w/sleeve protectors, tape & address forms. You also get a buck or two off on Military addresses!

Comment by boocoo on November 4, 2013 at 12:54am: Hi JenJen. Definitely check the address in the link lemonelephant gave you. I shipped a couple of boxes to my son on Saturday and he got them on Monday. Doesn't take long at all and the Priority flat rate boxes at the PO are free of charge.

Comment by lemonelephant on November 3, 2013 at 10:20pm: JENJEN1968, welcome. There is an address in Break down week by week. Also, check your My Page.

Comment by JENJEN1968 on November 3, 2013 at 9:09am: Good morning! I'm new to this group....my SA just graduated from Great Lakes November 1st. He wasn't sure they were allowed to take their phones so he left for A school without it. We still haven't heard from him since we got home from Great Lakes yesterday. I'm hoping a buddy will let him borrow a phone so He can call home and i can get the address where to mail his phone and other things. I'm glad to be a part of this group!

Comment by lemonelephant on October 26, 2013 at 3:28pm: See MA A-School Graduation Tips within http://www.navydads.com/ if you plan to attend the MA graduation. It is very helpful.

Comment by lemonelephant on October 18, 2013 at 4:41pm: samiamsmom, check your My Page.

Comment by samiamsmom on October 18, 2013 at 10:56am: So, my daughter has DOR'd from the MA program. Now she'll be undesignated (?) for a year and then talk to a career counselor to see what rating she actually wants. Do any of the experienced moms have any advice for me? I have told her that whatever she decides is her decision and I love her and support her no matter what. I don't even know what group I'll be able to join, maybe once she gets her orders and I know where she's going I'll find a group. Help!