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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).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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MA & HM Enlisting
Hey navy wives! I was on here a couple of months ago and was asking about how to plan a wedding. Well, my sailor went on leave after he graduated MA A school and we got married on base at the beach and it was absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for the help! Now I have a new problem. My husband is an MA and I as well am wanting to enlist into the Navy. I took my ASVAB and now qualify for HM which is what I originally wanted to do in the first place. I also qualify for MA but that was my second option and I only wanted MA if I did not qualify for HM. My recruiter called me and wants me to go down to MEPS and sign to MA on Thursday. I know it will be very hard for them to station me with my husband if we both have the rate of MA, plus I really want to be an HM. Since I qualify for HM, would you recommend me waiting until it is available even though the recruiter told me that HM is only available to men right now? How long do you think I would have to wait for a position for HM to open up? I just feel like they are really desperate for me to sign to MA because I know they need more female MA. Any advice or knowledge on this topic would be great! I want to be happy with my future career especially knowing that I qualify for it now. I am also about to graduate High School, if that changes anything.
Thanks,
New Navy Wife
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Permalink Reply by Jenn_NicksWifey on
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I honestly don't have any answers to your specific questions. I just think that if you really want to be something, you shouldn't settle for something else because of some other people/organizations wants. Wait until there's a spot for you in the rate you want. There will be PLENTY of times you settle due to the "needs of the Navy". You'll be stuck in it for 4 years, don't regret it.
(As an uneducated-on-the-topic opinion side note - it seems like the training you'll receive as an HM will be more useful if you decide not to reenlist than the training as an MA. You can continue in the health care field after 4 years and have some experience, some training that may translate better in the civilian world to higher pay or better opportunities.)
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Right now HM is very overmanned, hard to get in, and harder to advance. If the recruiter says it is closed to females, believe him, it may not open soon. If it is more than a year, they will drop you from DEP.
If your husband is stationed at a large base or in an area with several bases , then you may be able to get the same geographic area. No matter which rating you choose, you cannot apply for spouse co-location until you have been at your first command (not school) for a year. As junior sailors, you both will have more choices of duty stations for co-location. One could be at an air base which is near a surface vessel base which could have a billet for the other, for example. More workable than most other ratings. MA might work out for you, but is it something you want to do? Base security or riverines are the usual tasks.
They'll tell you MA translates to civilian police work, but not unless you're a dog handler. Think TSA agent or mall cop. LOL, actually, there are decent security services jobs which are very good.
Let us know how it goes!
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Permalink Reply by Reana on
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Thank you for all the info. I think I am going to try and wait it out and see if anything opens up, if it comes to an end and it's not available then I will take MA. I have another question. Since my husband will be overseas in Bahrain and I have to wait for an opening, could I go live with him while I wait? Is there a recruiters office on base in Bahrain or near Bahrain?
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Ask the recruiter, but pretty sure the answer is no.
You also need command sponsorship and an overseas screening to go to Bahrain as a dependent, it is not so simple as getting on a plane. They have fairly strict immigration laws. Navy won't be happy to haul you over than back again either. Are his orders unaccompanied?
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Well, we tried to get married during his A school but he asked his sponsors and they said it was too late to get married. So I am not on his orders.
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Yeah, you won't be living in Bahrain. Maybe you can visit if your recruiter gives the okay? I would get a passport, just in case you have an opportunity.
Good luck, you have a lot to deal with, pretty complicated! But it will eventually work out and you can help other new wives and sailors!
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