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Comment by Elane on February 23, 2009 at 11:14pm

My son's NFCU account gets charges to Navy Cash thats something he's doing on the ship to add to his ship account & only appear when the ship is near a port..stores up until then. but NFCU would not discuss anything about his acct with me until I showed up at a recently opened branch with the POA in hand. Now we're like good friends with what they help me with. Don't know if that's the type of charges you speaking of if it's something else. I do watch mine's acct closely and even relay to him stuff to make sure he made the charges. By the way NFCU is trying to open branches in every state. Get on their site and see if there is a new branch or one coming soon closer than the main one in VA to most of us.

Comment by Elane on February 17, 2009 at 7:32pm

Shrley..Ship to shore are special phone cards that they can use to call stateside from their ships. the US Navy does not foot that phone bill. I've been told you can get them from the AAFES system. I think there is a website where civilians can buy only the phone cards for deployed sailors they can be purchased by the sailor, on some of the ships. WestPac.. there are lots of countries in that area.. some ships go to some some go to others but among them would be Guam, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Phillipines, etc. any country in or accessible from the Western Pacific Ocean.

Comment by Elane on February 15, 2009 at 9:01pm

Shirley, I trying to hold up.. no phone calls from him but I get emails..when I send him one with questions..although he did write me one for my birthday. Hope your son's was happy.
last I heard mine might be back late July or August.
Mail comes in spurts.. they don't get dropped off on the ship by helicopter but it finds them at ports, I guess. makes for sending them things a bit of a challenge.. they might not need it when they finally get it. Make sure yours has phone cards Int'l & ship to shore when he leaves and some US postage stamps.. & most important YOU have his ship email address.. email, email, email.. he'll respond or ignore but he's still getting contact from home.

Comment by Elane on February 15, 2009 at 1:57pm

all I get is occasionally emails from mine..glad some are getting phone calls. He did say at a port call they were at long enough to load/unload stuff including some mail & he got alot so he's "busy" for a few more days going thru it. Hope all are coping at least.

Comment by Elane on February 7, 2009 at 5:24pm

I think the passport application's we have from the post office say $85 plus the cost of picture and any copy of birth certificates you need to prove you are whom you say you are. I had one years ago when I lived in Germany courtesy of the USAF but it's long expired. if you need it Express mailed it's even more.
can't get my son to send pix either or even take them while he's at various ports. So I too am envious that you can get them posted.

Comment by Elane on February 6, 2009 at 7:50pm

I'll echo that of BIG Babies... I think the husband is worse than the son. and of course the world does not even slow down when we are sick..
Good luck with your vacation..did I say that out loud.. good luck with your moving a friend.

Comment by Elane on February 3, 2009 at 6:22pm

what is "cranking" that I've seen mentioned in several places?

Comment by Elane on February 1, 2009 at 8:05pm

My son is out to sea.. the little I hear from him is he's surviving. His biggest line of converstation right now is that his game system he had with quit working and is out of warranty so he's shipping it to me to take to where we got the extended warranty.. who know when the military mail will get it to me. I hope he takes pictures of the places he gets to dock..as I will most likely never see them any other way. I miss not be able to pick up my cell and ring his for any chat! But 1 mo down and 5-8 to go?

Comment by Elane on January 19, 2009 at 6:50pm

"westpac" is the general area.. that could mean anything in the Pacific ocean. His communications are from his email address via the ship's computer.. no phone communication from the ocean. They might get to call from ports if they have AT&T int'l phones or $ to buy time at phone centers on ports I haven't actually been able to get on the ships website to get any info from it. I can see a main page with the ships pix but no further. I had ask about him having a passport B4 he left..he seemed to think that his ID would get him on/off ship, if emergency came up he'd have to go to a consolate if id didn't work. Last application I saw for passports was around 85$ each. Need a passport to get in&out of Alaska as it's surrounded by foreign countries but not to HI if you fly in & out of there.. if you take a ship you might need one for HI. things really changed after 911. Don't know about us family needing one in case. guess it would not hurt to be prepared.

Comment by Elane on January 19, 2009 at 12:29am

My son's deployment started the 9th. 6-9mos at sea.
so far I've had some email contact from him.. he doesn't write much but answers some of the questions I ask. he's not really detail oriented at home so I imagine getting answers while gone will be a challenge.

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