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Moms of IS (Intelligence Specialist) sailors.

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My son has found the perfect job for a teenager! When I ask him, "What are you doing?", he honestly tells me, "Sorry, Mom, I can't tell you."

Members: 194
Latest Activity: May 17, 2023

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MILITARY. THANK YOU.

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Comment by purplegiraffe69 on October 10, 2012 at 3:27pm: Heading to VA beach this weekend to see my sailor. Can I get on base? Where can I pick him up? he is in phase 3 and can leave friday and return Sunday. but can i drive on base. Not even sure where the base is...guess I will find it when I get there.

Comment by purplegiraffe69 on October 10, 2012 at 3:26pm: My son is graduating on Nov. 9th, got a C School, and already has orders after C school. I thought that was early. Any way these are orders can change or are they set in stone?

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on October 6, 2012 at 7:47pm: email me I suppose, Anna.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on October 6, 2012 at 7:47pm: never mind...my stupid phone has lost your number so I'm having to look for my old address book.

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on October 6, 2012 at 7:29pm: Anna, whatever works for you, dear friend. You want me to call you?

Comment by Anna on October 6, 2012 at 6:48pm: Carolyn,

Sent you a friend request. Want to give you some info on another subject!!

Comment by Anna on October 6, 2012 at 6:44pm: Hey Mary - - I have some update info I need to give you - pm on here or is your email a better choice????

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on October 6, 2012 at 5:30pm: Anna, With 5 current or former sailors in your family, you always have some in-the-know info for us. Thanks. Godspeed with ChrisA!

Comment by Anna on October 6, 2012 at 4:00pm: Oh, forgot to mention - one of the nice things my son loved about being on the carrier but not being ship's company - - - - whenever they call battlestations or other drills for the ship, those attached to the squadrons just riding along, don't participate!!!!

Comment by Anna on October 6, 2012 at 3:56pm: All good information shared here! I'll give a little more clarification on the ships company. When my son first went in as an AO he was attached to a squadron and went on deployments on two carriers over to the gulf. Any of the sailors that is actually attached to the carrier is part of ship's company. That includes not only the rates Mary mentioned but anyone from the pay and records folks to the CS (cooks) and everything in between. Just about every sailor these days has some sea duty time in their rating as well as shore duty.

And to add a little more mud into these IS assignments. I just heard from my son (who is now an IS) that he stands a chance of going to that "starts with an A" country as an IA. He's attached to a command in VA but they provide IAs to all kinds of places. So even tho they are stationed in VA, these ISs could end up going anywhere!! And as Mary knows my son - he's all hot to trot about this opportunity - - his wife and I - - not so much!!!!!