What works best for sea sickness?

[Concernedad]

My son is due to be aboard a fairly small ship and is prone to sea sickness. I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for what your sailor may have used?

[Angie]

Are the plastic, rubber, cloth, woven, leather or wood wrist bracelets authorized while wearing the Navy uniform?

U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations, Chapter 1, Section 5, Para f:

Faddish.  A style followed for a short period of time with exaggerated zeal.  Styles are enduring, fads are generally short in duration and frequently started by an individual or event in the civilian community.

The plastic, rubber, cloth, woven, leather or wood wrist bracelets are conspicuous and detract from a professional appearance and are unauthorized when wearing the Navy uniform.

fyi...the way the Navy works is it if doesn't say they can have it they can't have it.  That is in the first Chapter of the Uniform Reg's.  So in reality the Sailor has to prove they can have it, not the other way around.

[Concernedad]

Angie, I appreciate what you are saying, however, I know my son wears one of those survival bracelets and says everyone is wearing them these days, even while on duty.

Again, I'll let him figure it out, however, it seems they don't always follow the letter of the law. I'm sure there will be those superiors who will tell him if he's "out of uniform".

I know he got pulled over by a couple of chiefs for riding his motorcycle with tennis shoes. Apparently, boots are required, even when not in uniform.

[Anti M]

Helmet, boots, gloves, long sleeves, long pants, and the safety vest. Although the vest is easy to skip off base.

[Angie]

It doesn't matter if everyone wears them, the are wrong and it seems there is a lack of leadership at his command if they are allowing that to happen.

Also yes he has to wear boots while on a motorcycle, he is in the Navy 24/7.

Not being rude, but you don't seem to help when you said talked about you couldn't find where it said he can't do something. Again that isn't how the Navy works, if it isn't in writing they can't do it.  Young Sailors like to just follow what others do and not pay attention to detail, that is why so many of them get into trouble. Recommend you point your young man to the rules.  As now you are saying you will let him figure it out...why where you looking for the instruction than? 

[Concernedad]

Geez Angie, ok, didn't want to make this point, however, my son has told me, many of the things he reads on here are not accurate. Whether it be rules constantly changing, or perhaps people just post stuff on here without knowing for fact (I probably am also guilty of this), so, in asking for your info in writing was my nice way of trying to state, you may not be correct, but you might be.

The beginning of this thread was me asking if anyone knew anything that works for sea sickness. I wasn't asking for protocol. It wasn't until you decided to question his reason for even being in the Navy that this swerved in a different direction. I'm not trying to "point" my young man in any direction. He's an adult and he understands rules. If he's not allowed to wear it, then he won't. It's certainly no longer my job to instruct him. I've done my time, now it's the Navy's turn.

Thanks for your response.

[Angie]

The way I read your posts was that you and he knew he had sea sickness before he joined the Navy, you didn't say that he was on a small boy and when they hit rough seas he got sick. That may have been how you meant it to read, but that isn't how I read it.

As far as people posting wrong info on here, yep the parents do that all the time!  I will gladly give out instructions to people when they ask for them...so my thoughts are if a parent asks for the institution than they will pass that info along to their Sailor.  As far as Sailors knowing and understanding the rules, if that was the case they would know to read the reg's and understand what is wrong and right, not just do what everyone else does. 

I am glad you are trying to help your son out with finding sea sickness help for him, but at the same time if you are going to "point" your young man in the direction for that...well you could also point him in the direction of the proper Naval Instruction when you come across it

[Concernedad]

OK, just to sum this all up and hopefully end it.

Yes, he once got sick when riding a ferry between Playa Del Carmen and Cozumel when he was 8. However, just as asking someone why they would bother going to college if they didn't like math, his getting sea sick didn't at all figure into the equation. Nor did his ability to make his rack.

Again, it is not my job to "point" him anywhere. I was merely trying to buy him some medicine while in town.  I'm sure he'll figure out what he can or cannot use while over there.

It's good to know in the future, if I ever need an answer that is absolute, I now know who to ask. 

 

[BunkerQB]

I must have misread the sentence also .......  because the first thing that pop into my mine was, "Gee why is the kid in the Navy? Why didn't he joined the Air Force or the Army?"  I realized there is a whole other perspective that I had not considered.  It just goes to show that our perception is often based on "repetitive" ideas in our mind (Navy - sea, Air Force - air, Army - land, etc). We forget that there are overlaps. 

Anyway, interesting discussion.

[Kalena]

"Eat saltines"  the words of an old tin can sailor.

[Concernedad]

For any future readers, someone was kind enough to send me this interesting article...

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20101011/NEWS/10110312/New-drug-in...

[Cynthia]

I always snacked on saltine crackers

[Concernedad]

Makes it too tough to whistle while you work.