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Comment by TexasDocMom on January 27, 2009 at 11:51am

The little town of Libertyville, IL near the base has GREAT foodies living and working there! Just drive up and down it's sweet main street...there was a deli there that I was dying to try but we ran out of time. A new bakery that had the pastry chef from the Chicago Four Seasons baking for it...and a steakhouse, I can't remember it's name...very reasonable prices, and great food. Plus the 7-11 lady turned us on to a great little cafe that was Matt's first food request...enchiladas, rice, beans and fresh flour tortillas...all in Libertyville. Probably a good thing, because I saw no grocery stores anyplace there.

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 26, 2009 at 6:55pm

Andrea, your corpsman will get the same military training as any Marine, and there will be desert training for him before any deployment to the sand. He will do his job and a Marine's job when out on assignment, he's a tough guy now.

I know it's hard to not go to each and every graduation, ceremony etc but these young people are living in their own world now, and you have to follow your son's wishes here, it's important. Important that he makes these decisions himself, important that you recognize his right and ability to do so. It's just one step, and then there will be another...and one day your boy comes home a total grown up man...who loves his mom for letting him find his own way and listening to him when he asks you.

My son is leaving the Navy and that same unit in a few months...I'm so excited. He's done his 4 years and says "it's enough". I can tell he's torn, but he's ready to go back to school and finish his degree. I'm happy!

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 16, 2009 at 6:45pm

My son and 12 others were pulled out of the hospital to fill a FMBT class at Lajuene. The others in the 240 person class all had orders except these 13. After the class was completed, they lined them up and said..."you go there, you two go there, you go there..." and that's how Matt got his unit. Or at least that's the story I heard. Matt's unit had just returned from the sand, and had lost a corpsman there, that's why it was a MEU deployment and a year or so before he was deployed overseas. Most of the remaining ones in that class went to Iraq pretty quickly I heard. I had wonderful letters and blogs from one friend of my sons while he was overseas.. He was only in for 2 years, he left the military as soon as he returned pretty much.

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 11, 2009 at 10:43am

The Navy can and will change orders at will. As you might read in some of the groups on these board, any job can be needed any place. A mechanic can be fixing trucks in the USA or onboard a ship...and a week later be in the sand.

My son is leaving the military in mid summer but up until he's less than 7 months short, he's on a list that can be deployed again to Iraq, if a corpsman is lost or has a family emergency, he could go again.

Those young corpsmen know that FMTB prepare them for working in Marine units. They are prepared for it, it's just us at home that are not if they are deployed. Matt's first deployment with his Marine unit was on a ship, they were bored as they could be for 6 months, just being transported around, One brief actual event, but even that turned out to be boring, thank goodness.

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