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Comment by Odi_Ship09_Div140 on November 13, 2012 at 12:24am

Anti M  - Thank you for your advice

Comment by Anti M on November 12, 2012 at 9:59am

The Family Readiness Group you need will be linked to her ship.  There is an entire network of such groups, so you need to find the correct one.  Her official ship website should have a link to the appropriate group. Let me know if you need help finding it.

Here is a link explaining what they do:

http://www.cnic.navy.mil/CNIC_HQ_Site/WhatWeDo/FleetandFamilyReadin...

Comment by Navymom on November 12, 2012 at 8:14am

Anti M - I have seen talk of the Family Readiness Group before my daughter

goes to Deployment in May.  Do you know anything about this group and how do I join?

Comment by Vickyrun on November 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

Chrissy did not get her cross-deck approved. Poor kid has such bad luck in that area. The person who was going to switch with her didn't follow thru with it.   

Comment by Odi_Ship09_Div140 on November 10, 2012 at 10:48pm

He is going to Bahrain - anyone with experience in that area?

Comment by ssbeach on November 10, 2012 at 9:51pm

Odi, my kids are in Guam, and before they left, we set up a magicjack - it works through the computer, and they can get a US phone number that they can take with them wherever they go.  They sell it at Radio Shack, and a bunch of other places, and it's about $100 to buy, with the first year free, then $30 a year after that, or another $100 for five years.  In Guam, the cell phone service is all local, and none of the big companies had a plan which covered it.  Depending on where he ends up, it might be a good bet to set one up so he always has one number that will follow him wherever he goes.

Comment by Anti M on November 10, 2012 at 1:12pm

Odi... where overseas?  I know that in Japan they either buy new phones or use other plans and apps for free texting.  US phones may work overseas, but the roaming charges are killer.  

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on November 8, 2012 at 4:39pm

Dahlgren has great housing and they will assign it to her when she arrives there. She will only have one roommate but she will have a washer and dryer!

Odi, most questions you can learn in one of our groups but until your ET connects with his sponsor and finds out what their schedule is - I would not worry about his phone yet. He could be going to a ship that is in the yards or is not deploying for quite some time so he would not make any changes to his phone plan until the ship deploys and then they will want to put it on hold or cancel his service while deployed, he will get deployment orders that you can send to your phone provider to work with.

Car in Dahlgren? Most do have their cars there as it s in the middle of no where, our son did not take a car, he sold it while in boot camp know ping he would be sitting in school for two years and had hopes of orders for Japan (can't ship cars to Japan). He had a number of friends/classmates that did have a car in Dahlgren so he did not feel the need to buy one until he reported to His first command in Hawaii.


Congrats to all on the new orders - exciting times ahead!!

Comment by Odi_Ship09_Div140 on November 8, 2012 at 1:04pm

Son (ET) finally got orders to his first overseas post and will be home for Christmas - but will not give me more info than that!  Now I have a zillion questions about cell phones when they are gone etc....any suggestions on where to learn this stuff?

Comment by Jellysmom on November 8, 2012 at 3:37am

My daughter just got her orders to go to Dalgren Va, does she need to find housing and buy a car before she get's there?

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