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A place were we family members with Sailors on amphibious boats can come and talk ask questions and just hang out.. so anyone out there with a loved one on a amphibious jump on in lets share stories..
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Discussion Forum
How to Communicate with a Sailor on Ship Deployment
Started by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom. Last reply by 10mileloop Jun 18, 2017. 17 Replies 0 Likes
Tiger Cruise
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Comment by Anti M on March 3, 2009 at 9:40pm
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Polli, hope she makes PO3, that's a major step forward. I can answer some questions about the process as it is far more complicated than passing the test. dry dock, always a ton of work. Then after that there's sea trials!
The sailors usually enjoy the humanitarian missions. I never got to be on a ship, so I missed out on that aspect of the Navy. I volunteered with our Harley riders group (Japanese and Americans from base) at an orphanage in Japan. A strange place, the children were not up for adoption, they all had families who could not care for them. Sad, sad situation.
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Polli, I do understand weird humor, after all, I go to Burning man year after year.
Shirley, I haven't heard, but I wouldn't be one bit surprised. the Dubuque does this often, especially after the bad incident which happened when my hubby was on board. The CO then refused to pick up boat people; they later resorted to cannibalism. Hubby said the crew was next to mutiny. Much has changed since then, for the good. I will try to call Troy this week, although he doesn't talk ship movement to me much.
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Comment by Elane on March 2, 2009 at 7:41pm
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Birthday cake idea =
I pulled this cake idea off another website..thought you might like it.
"For my soldiers birthday and any other holiday, I made him a cake. Not just a regular cake, but I made it in a mason jar and it can be eaten with a spoon. Wrapped in bubble wrap, it's easy to ship and lasts for 3 MONTHS!! The trick is, put the seal on while it's still hot so that it seals properly"
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d'oh. Sorry.
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When I was in, we "girls" read Shape and other health magazines aimed at women.
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I had a friend stationed in Whidbey, I don't recall much about the one visit I made, but it seemed as though a car would be very useful there. The place he rented was on an island reached by ferry.
A "star chaser" is a ship that provides promotion opportunity to a commanding officer, up to admiral level, hence the "star". The Dubuque is set up to be a forward deployed command ship like the Blue Ridge. As I understand it, the Dubuque is a hard working ship. I'll try to get a better explanation from Troy, but he's not the best at remembering to call, LOL.
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Shirley, my friend has been on the Dubuque for over a year, maybe almost two. He arrived when the ship was still in dry dock, and has been out on one deployment. I get dates mixed up if I don't write them down. He says the ship is a "star chaser".
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Hi, I have a good friend on the USS Dubuque, my friend Troy, he's an ET2. He loves his ship, the Navy and San Diego.
Funny story, my hubby was stationed on the Dubuque, back when it was homeported in Seasebo, Japan. When our friend Troy decided to joint the Navy, he went into electronics, just as hubby and I had done. Troy was in A school and talking to a visiting detailer, a Masterchief, and mentioned he knew my hubby. This Masterchief was the one who set him up with orders to the Dubuque; as far as we can figure out, he used to work for my hubby when he was the LPO. Small, small world!
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"Mama Wojo" If your son is in port on his birthday have you given any thought to maybe sending him a gift card to a place like Dairy Queen..if you & he have one within a resonable distance. They have ready made cakes you can just go get. Or find out if there is a bakery/grocery store nearby him that might deliver or he could got pick up at? These ideas might not work if he is at sea like mine will be..I can't imagine that you'd want to get ahold of the cooks on the ship..as some ships play childish games to birthday people..juvenile pranks..etc.
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NO haven't heard from him since mid last week but he's been on some shore or at least his credit card has. That's my way of knowing where he's at lately. I hope they are his charges since they show up from places I've never heard of but I'm Learning a lot about Geography in WestPac by googling bank charge locations. so far they don't appear too fraudulent, tho which is good as communication is lax from him.
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