USS Bataan LHD-5

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Comment by Deb on November 23, 2009 at 7:22pm

hi all! i won't be at the night before but WILL be on the pier!! hope to meet some of you!!

Comment by Nancy (aka nwig) on November 20, 2009 at 10:11pm

I'll be there - look forward to meeting all who can be there!

Comment by Donna on November 20, 2009 at 10:02pm

Things are wrapping up. Got a email from my son, he is really looking forward to coming home. Planning on attending the night before celebration. Hope to see all of you there. Can't wait.

Comment by usn on November 18, 2009 at 8:32pm

all homecoming information will be sent out through the ombudsmen yahoo grp and frg emailing tree as soon as Jennifer and I get it from the command. Base access info will be given out at the night before celebration we have arranged. make sure you are all signed up at bataanombudsman2003@yahoo.com and bataanfrg@yahoo.com

as far as leave--your sailor should have already put his leave chit in and would know what leave period he is already approved for!

Comment by Kellie on November 15, 2009 at 9:00pm

Thanks Nancy =) I think he was wanting the second half of leave. But I will deffinetly tell him to contact his sponser on the sitution! lol

Comment by Nancy (aka nwig) on November 15, 2009 at 8:56pm

Kellie - he should really contact his sponsor on this one. I know that my son has already submitted his chit for his holiday leave and he'll be taking the 2nd leave time which is pretty much the first 10 days of January and a few days after Christmas. And since it can take over a week for a leave chit to be processed, he may want to see if he can maybe fax over a request for leave to the ship now; but I'm sure he'd need his sponsor's assistance with this. Otherwise, you might need to be prepared for the potential that he'd only have a chance for the second half leave.

Comment by Kellie on November 15, 2009 at 8:46pm

Hey everybody, I have a quick question...What is the christmas leave schedule like for the ship? My husband should be there in the beginning of December and if he can for sure get 2 weeks leave around christmas ( he has enough days for it) then I will stay in florida until he comes home for leave and we will move all our stuff and me back to up to Norfolk when he has to go back. Just trying to get an idea what the leave schedule is like so we can plan some more =) lol

Comment by Dawn on November 15, 2009 at 11:11am

Hi Liz,
Thank you so much for the information. Here's where my ignorance with the Navy way comes in. I've been communicating with my son and had no idea I could actually get a call from him....lol!! I will definitely take you advice, it would be wonderful to hear his voice.
Thanks again Liz!

Comment by Elizabeth (Liz) Boe on November 15, 2009 at 1:12am

Hi Dawn,
Welcome to the group. If you have an email address for your son (the ship will assign them an address) asking him to call you when he gets the time. Before he calls ask him to speak to the person who is incharge of Homecoming. His shipmates will be able to help him with this. I hope this information helps.
My son has been on the ship for a year now.
Sincerely,
Liz

Comment by Dawn on November 13, 2009 at 12:14pm

Hello everyone, I'm new here so bare with me. My son just joined the BATAAN last month, he's currently finishing ship school and works in the calibration shop. I joined the FRG email list in the hopes of getting information on the actual homecoming date and have yet to receive it (the date). So, here's my dilemma how do you find out this information if you cannot email it. Let me say that I did call the phone number attached to the emails and was told they would get back to me regarding the homecoming date, that it has not changed, I explained that I never knew that date to begin with. In any event, I told my son that I won't be traveling to Virginia to see him arrive because it's too late to schedule time off. I don't think he'll be manning the rails since I won't be there, I will be very sad if he does.

So, you all have fun and take lots of pictures.

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