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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 19, 2013 at 12:50pm

Hi geokat5. Is this your first deployment? I know some that ave left on Monday have been communicating already. Not ours --- so I am waiting impatiently for our first communication!!

Hang in there and let us know what questions you might have.

Comment by geokat5 on January 18, 2013 at 4:41pm

This is my first time commenting.I appreciate all the good ideas. My son left last Friday, patiently waiting to here something It helps to know I'm not the only one even though that feeling is very strong

Comment by duhhuh58 Ship 10/Div 267 on January 17, 2013 at 9:08pm

with the screenings of the emails you have to be careful how you word some things.  a friend of mine was trying to email her about a cat dying and until she reworded it it wouldn't go thru.  strange but i understand not wanting them to learn about a death via email.

while on deployment they are working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day.  when my daughter was out she said mostly they sleep on their 12 off.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 17, 2013 at 7:09pm

First deployments are hard but they never get easy!

Sandy, great suggestion on the peppermint oil, we have ginger works nicely too. I get ginger chews at Krogers "health food" aisle.

As anti M says numerous reasons why an email might fail. In the past, our ombudsman has been good about notifying us if the email is going to be down so if it continues for a few days you might want to reach out to her. This is a new ship for us so I don't know what to expect.

Nick reported to the ship just in time for holiday standdown and then took 10 days house hunting leaving so his email was not set us when they left Monday and I am like a crazy mom watching for that first email.

If it is your first deployment --- they are so busy when they first get underway and are working some very long days, try not to worry --- they are thinking of you too.

Comment by Anti M on January 17, 2013 at 2:52pm

There's several reasons the email will fail.  The servers might be down, the ship may be in River City, or the incoming filters might be full.  Those emails are all screened, and if the screeners get behind, there can be only a limited number of emails on hold.  Or your email was too large, plus some of the ships can't allow HTML formatting or attachments.  I know sending to my nephew's sub, I have to go plain text or it bounces back.

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 17, 2013 at 2:25pm

Hi everyone. My son is deployed too. I'm miss him of course but so far I'm ok. He was able to contact me to let me know that he is doing great.

He is a lot happier now that he has solved his sea sickness. I took him to a health-food store while he was home on leave. We found some 100% pure Peppermint oil that contains no spirits- alcohol.  He just puts some under his nose or on his shirt and voila!! No more sea sickness.

Anti M, or Mary,  I have a question. My son emailed me from his ship. I emailed him back on my Barnes and Noble nook HD+. He received that email. I emailed him the next day from my computer and I got a failure notice. He didn't get my email. I have tried from my Iphone, same result. What is going on???

BR549, Godng8r, I am praying with you. This is my son's first deployment. Don't know what to expect.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 16, 2013 at 6:45pm

BR549, our sailor left with yours. He just moved to San Diego and is on the Lawrence DDG 110. Did you see any of the news coverage from Monday?

Mailed two boxes ...so far!

Comment by Anti M on January 11, 2013 at 2:33pm

We rented in Birdland, which is above Mission Valley, between Linda Vista and Serra Mesa.  All good choices.  San Diego is a commuting town, and everyone knows how much BAH is.   It can be tough, but it isn't impossible.  We had three cats, so I know there are cat friendly rentals.  Avoid anything near the airport.  Some people like Chula Vista, but I'd skip National City.  

Comment by tiffanyk2010 on January 11, 2013 at 1:26pm

Thanks Anti M!  That's what I thought.  I know we don't want to be close exactly but I don't want the commute to be too far either.  I've looked into housing but I think we can find something better and save some of our BAH.  We have a cat so that seriously limits our "base" housing options.

Comment by Anti M on January 11, 2013 at 12:48pm

I found their FB page, sure looks like 32nd to me!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/USS-WAYNE-E-MEYER-DDG-108/191312000420

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