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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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- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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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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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 Schools
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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".
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 kim's husband Troy on January 4, 2021 at 10:54am
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C's mom - Sorry I don't have info on reservist schedule either. So glad your son finally got out of GL and is doing well down there. Yes the visits were nice and a little difficult at the same time. It was easier sending him off this time just knowing the communication would be better than going to bootcamp. Hope you are doing well!!
Vintage - hello and hope you enjoyed your visit over Christmas? Has you son gotten his orders for his first duty station yet. Couldn't remember how far a long he is in training?
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Comment by C'sMom on January 1, 2021 at 10:40pm
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Our Sailor told us he is to class up January 27, and will graduate March 19. He said he may get put in a later class, though, if the current group classing up has too many students, and some get bumped from when he is supposed to class up. So those dates could change. He has done his life skills classes already.
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Oh! And thanks for that information. I'll look it up. Our Sailor went to the recruiter by himself, so the only information is what he told us. And if we didnt know what questions to ask, he didnt tell us. Some questions, he didnt know the answers to.
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It's going well! Our Sailor seems to have a good group of friends down there. He's gone bowling, played pool, gone to the NEX with a group of people, grilled bbq chicken on Christmas day with about 7 other sailors. He seems to be having fun. So glad he got down there before Christmas. He has two other guys in his room. One that is partway through A school (He didn't go home for Christmas), and the other that arrived at San Antonio when our Sailor did. Our Christmas/birthday package just arrived down there last evening, so we asked him to FaceTime us when he opens it.
How are you doing? I felt so bad for all of you that got visits and had to say goodbye to your sailors again! How maby weeks is your sailor through classes?
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Comment by VintageGal on December 30, 2020 at 8:31pm
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C’smom ~ hello! I wish I had more information for you. I remember when we were at the recruiters office the first time we went down there with my son they had quite a bit of information on what it’s like being a reservist. There’s a website called NavyDep.com that may have some answers. How’s everything going? :)
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So my sailor said that C school isn't for him since he is a reservist. I'm trying to get information now about what life will be like for him after A school as a reservist. I can't seem to find much information on Navyformoms. There is a group but it's not active.
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C’smom ~ I was wondering about C school and I still think that he is unsure if he has to go or he just hasn’t filled us in on everything just yet because he wants it to be a surprise... By the smirk on his face at times I feel like he hasn’t told us everything.
I hope everything works out for your son although I’m sure it will. He’s going to have quite the résumé that should surely push that extension along.
So my son does have a third roommate who now has to sleep on the cot in the room. He said a whole new group of guys came in just the other day.
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So my son facetimed with us this afternoon. He said that he heard C school is mandatory now, but he's reserves, so he's not sure if it is for him. He's excited to do it if it is. The only thing is he took the MCOLES certification test August 6. To be fully certified, he has to be sworn in as a police officer within a year. Going in with a normal timeline, this wouldnt have been a problem. But now, it could be cutting it close if he does C school and there are more delays. He's not too worried right now, though, because he said he could apply for an extension.
He is rooming with someone who is already partway through A school. And he said they are really packing them in. There is a cot in their room, and if a third joins them, he gets the cot. Are your sailors three to A room?
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C’smom ~ i’m so sorry. I’m still holding out hope for you guys. Glad he’s finally moving on as well. <3
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VintageGal: he called us about an hour ago and said he is flying out tomorrow sometime. But it's too late to request leave. I'm disappointed (I didn't realize how much I was hoping he would still make it home), but at least he's moving on and he left there before Christmas and his birthday!
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