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Comment by Tamme on June 24, 2011 at 4:46pm

The missing them definitely isn't easy and probably will always be hard.  Last week I was driving out of town to see a friend and thought how strange my life is now not having children with me when I go places.  Then right after I arrived, my son called me and said "I am really missing you, Momma."  Hit the heartstrings - almost like he had ESP. 

Comment by mamawalrus on June 24, 2011 at 12:06pm

Not sure if it gets easier either,,, I think you learn to adapt to the missing pain and the not having them but it never leaves me.  There are times I see my youngest son do something and we say,, your brother did that too!  Then all the pain comes to the surface,, I have learned to deal with it better.  The only thing that helps me is knowing he is doing something he loves, and he has done something positive with his life at such a young age and not loafing on my couch! hahahaha

Comment by Pam on June 24, 2011 at 10:45am

Thanks docs mom and Cathy!  Better today thank goodness!  I'm planning a trip sometime next year, depending on if air fare will come down!! 

Comment by mamawalrus on June 23, 2011 at 7:09pm

A great web site to follow on FB is Sparrow six-five...not Corpsman related but a patriotic one at least

Comment by Pam on June 23, 2011 at 6:19pm

Hi everyone!  I haven't been on too much here lately, but have managed to read the last several pages and have to say there are so many good points made.  No matter what stage of their Navy career our Corpsman are in, they are all important.  There will come a time when our Corpsman (my son's been out of boot for a year now) will be the seasoned veterans and will pass on all the knowledge and skill taught to them by the current seasoned Corpsman's.  Such is life, right?

My question to the one's that have been at this longer, does the missing them ever get easier?  I know it comes and goes, but darn!!  My son's been in Italy for nearly six months now and I'm ready for a bear hug and a good laugh with my first born!  Yep, one of "those" days! 

Comment by karenmjm on June 23, 2011 at 5:12pm

Thank you, everyone!

 

Mark's Mom. . .there is a lot of pressure in A school to do well and a lot of information to learn.  I was amazed how much training our sailors are given in the 12 weeks of classroom instruction.  I found myself walking a thin line between wanting to know what and how my sailor was doing, and just allowing him to blow of steam when he was talking to me.  On top of everything Inga mention they are also assigned duties.  My sailor's favorite (NOT) was standing fire watch from zero hundred hours to 0400 and then having to be in class until 1600.

Comment by NavyWife on June 23, 2011 at 1:52pm

Thank you very much karenmjm! That makes a lot of sense and doesn't seem as daunting as him being totally gone for that long!

Comment by mamawalrus on June 23, 2011 at 1:35pm

navywife... good question... interested to find out too!

Comment by TexasDocMom on June 23, 2011 at 1:34pm

Karenmjm, there are no important jobs in the military, every single volunteer member of our military are important! At any given time, in a time of war, any of them can be pulled off of their job and sent to war zones. In the heat of the Iraq war, those guys manning those check points were not doing the job they trained for...needs of the military. And personally, anyone who can go into a sub and stay there for months has my undying admiration and gratitude because that would drive me stark raving mad.

Do those of us having greenside corpsmen in a war zone have experiences that perhaps moms with kids serving in ships/home bases do not? Yes. And we don't wish them on anyone. But if your son is a corpsman, he can end up in that war zone just as easily as ours do...and we'll be there for you as well. We discuss this more in our other group than here. I just like the new moms to understand that if they have a kid going into a corpsman rank, that kid has a good shot at being in combat at some point. I don't want anyone caught up in thinking that someway that the Navy cannot switch things on a dime, and send any of them to FMTB and then to a Marine unit.

And yes,  in the ebb and flow of a group that's been up this long, many of us have kids that have been in the Navy for many years, my son is on year 7, I think. And at the moment he's trying to decide if there will be a year 8, 9 and 10. We'll see! Sometimes this group is full of new moms, but the experienced moms come to advise and share, with your experience as a Navy wife, your voice will be invaluable!

Comment by karenmjm on June 23, 2011 at 1:12pm

NavyWife9. . .my husband is retired navy and spent 20 years as a submariner.  I don't know about surface ships, but each sub has two crews.  While one crew is out at sea the other crew is at the home port.  Generally speaking, the small attack subs go out on 30 days of sea duty and then come back into port, and the crews switch.  The larger "boomer" subs go out for six months then return to port and change crews.  That is how the 36 months of sea duty went, and then they also rotated back to 36 months of shore duty.  During my husband's shore duty he did such things as teach at the school in Conn., work in a recruiting station, train reserves, etc.

TennMom ~ another thing Moms who send their children off to college don't understand is we don't get to see our children very often.  My sailor has only been in for six months, but I have only seen him one time, and don't expect to see him again until his one year anniversay.  And even when I was talking to him about that he seemed hestitant to request a leave chit because he is anxious to complete his training.

I sometimes get the feeling here, as a "new" Mom, that since my son has not served our country for 5+ years, or been in a war zone, somehow his service is "lesser" and it really bugs me.  I am proud of my son, and the commitment he is making to our country and himself.  He is doing everything the Navy is asking him to do to the best of his ability, graduated BC an E3, graduated A school with honors, and is now studying his butt off in C school.  These are huge accompishments!

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