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Comment by Charlotte(ship02Div930) on October 6, 2013 at 6:06pm

My son is always homesick for food!! Lol. Although he is on the Cable and says the food is decent. He eats out a lot. Too much fast food!! krssong, did your son get the package you sent him? I sent my son some golf clubs and he received them pretty quick! I was pleasantly surprised! That is two fast packages in a row!! We also got word that his leave was approved to come home in Dec. I am so excited! 2 months til I get a hug! Hope all is going well with communication!

Comment by ktssong on October 6, 2013 at 12:29am

I think he's mainly homesick for the food ha. I heard from him yesterday. He got Seabee of the month award so I think he's doing good. He said some days they eat good then next day canbe so bad he can't eat it. He said his buddy and him ate a whole thing of Halloween chocolate chip cookies together one day. Sounds like they will survive. Ha. Even if its on cookies.

Comment by ScarletteFromGuam on September 29, 2013 at 5:58am

Prices at the NEX and commissary are very competitive. Remember, there's no tax here, and the only extra charge at the commissary would be a small surcharge for maintenance. Gas on base is $3.79/gallon right now, compared to $4.73 outside. Sales are amazing, as well as markdowns for soon-to-be-outdated items. You can grab a case of soda for $0.50 some times.

The main "local" diet on Guam consists of rice and meat, hahaha. We do have a wide array of cuisine though, from pizza to Indian kabobs to steakhouses. Sorry to hear your son is homesick. Guam is pretty far away from the mainland :(

Comment by ktssong on September 28, 2013 at 12:28am

Geri Kaye, I have not heard of that type of deployment.  We are relatively new to Navy life.  We are getting more used to it.  This is our second year and second deployment.  

Heather and ScrletteFromGuam, loved the typhoon facts.  I learned something.  .  Kinda funny to hear of a sign that says "Home of the Seabees" after I heard from my Seabee in a message today and he said he missed dinner at grandma's with all our family and missed home.  Maybe it should be "Home away from Home" Ha.  He said he missed home cooking that the food is really bad.  I know what they mean but it sounds funny on a day like today.  

My son is pretty tight with his money.  He has a wife at homeport and her hours at work got cut so he doesn't want to spend alot of money.  He is so good about that but sometimes I wish he would let go of it a little.  

Is food expensive at grocery or Nex?

Comment by ScarletteFromGuam on September 27, 2013 at 2:35am

It may be worse than other places.*

Comment by ScarletteFromGuam on September 27, 2013 at 2:33am

Right, typhoons are hurricanes and vice versa. The name just depends on which hemisphere you live in, haha.

Ah, Seabee! I believe they do have their own little area of barracks down at the Naval Base. I pass it often as it is near the base main gate, it has a nice cemented sign "Home of the SeaBees" :)

Cellphone service in the southern part of Guam does actually kinda suck... it's rural and since he's off near the water (literally... across the road from the cement sign I was talking about is the water).

Comment by HeatherT(09/003) on September 26, 2013 at 11:00pm

Typhoons spin the opposite way from hurricanes. Otherwise pretty much the same.
:)
Tell your son to go get a cell phone with Guam number.... cost about 50$ a month and is prepaid. No contract and the calls to and from you are free both ways.
:)
Hope that helps

Comment by ktssong on September 26, 2013 at 10:11pm

Hi ScarletteFromGuam. I was going to ask about that when I got on here tonight because I saw 3 digit marks at the end and thought wow that's what the problem is.  Ha.  Oh well.  I have a feeling that the number is correct and it does ring but I think my son either doesn't have the ringer up or maybe he has to purchase phone service for the room.  He is in the barracks and there is a corded phone in his room and he said he can't figure out how to use it.  He said we can call it and reach him but it might take us the whole deployment to figure it out.  It makes me laugh because you would think we are working with High tech here and it is a corded phone.  Oh well.  

Typhoons are new to us.  I'm an Ohioian and so is my son obviously.  At his homeport that he's had for last year we were just getting introduced to Hurricanes.  What is the difference in a Hurricane compared to a typhoon?

Seems like it would be easy to have flooding in those conditions.  I know here in Ohio we have tornado's and we go to the basement for those and in Hurricane's they sometimes evacuate..what do they do for a typhoon?  Are there levels of Typhoons like we have tornado watch and then tornado alerts and sirens go off when they are sited.  

He was in Afghanistan last year and had dry desert and no water.  Now he has the opposite. Wet wet wet.  I'm sure regardless of the wet he's happier in Guam than Afghan.  Alot safer.  

Heather my son is in the barracks also.  He is a Seabee.

Comment by ScarletteFromGuam on September 26, 2013 at 6:42pm

So many typos. Woops.

*Hello everyone.

** 1-671-xxx-xxxx

Comment by ScarletteFromGuam on September 26, 2013 at 6:40pm

/2.5.5 llo everyone. Just dropping in from time to time as well to see what questions I might he able to answer.

Here's the format for dialing a number here on Guam: 1-671-xxx-xxx

Packages usually take 1.5/2.5 weeks from the mainland. I've sent and received packages from my husband while he was in Great Lakes, Pensacola, and now California. We've always used USPS. We do have FedEx and DHL, but they are so out of the way.

We've recently got through the tail of super typhoon Usagi, which was heading towards the Philippines and Hong Kong. we're back to 100 degree weather since yesterday, with showers here and there. It's humid here, and I'm sure your sailors will agree that the weather is soooo bipolar. It will rain hard and 5 minutes later it's so hot you can fry an egg on the road.

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