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Comment by M's mom on July 7, 2016 at 1:55pm
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BuckeyeMom: Congratulations to your DS on his winging! My son was also deployed with Helomom's son on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and they left San Diego in August 2014 and did not return until June of 2015! They spent most of it in the Persian Gulf launching airstrikes against ISIS.
Deployments are usually not THAT long. They did get some R&R time off the ship for a few days, in Dubai, Bahrain, and Perth Australia and Pearl Harbor on the way home. But yeah, they were gone for nearly a year.
My son's wife stayed back at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Seattle while he was gone. They emailed, and Skyped each other when he could. Deployments are tough on the families, but my D-I-L knew what she was signing on for when they got married.
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Comment by Helomom on July 7, 2016 at 1:54pm
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BuckeyeMom- No question is a silly question! In our experience, when a squadron leaves on a ship, they don't come back until the ship comes back. The VINSON left on the first day of school in August and the didn't return until June when school got out. No one goes home unless there is some sort of extreme family emergency and even then it is only if the command can get approval.
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This will sound like such a silly question...but for deployments, how often do they get to come home? He wasn't gone for the entire year was he? Four brothers who were enlisted, but DS's experience is a brand new thing!
He is still training, but will be stationed at Coronado once he finishes in a couple months.
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BuckeyeMom- They have been there since 2013 on this tour. DS was gone for nearly a year on the VINSON deployment. He will be wrapping up this tour pretty soon but his next orders will keep them at North Island for next couple of years.
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Hi Helomom! Our DS is still doing some training on North Island and is 'planning' on being there for a couple more years! This year he winged, bought a house, got married and that was all before June!
He is also in helo's. How long has yours been in Coronado?
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Hi BuckeyeMom! Our son is stationed at the Naval Station on Coronado with his family. We love visiting them, it's great having them on our coast. Our next trip down their way will be in September.
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We just got back from visiting our relatively freshly winged (1/16) DS and new his brand new wife in San Diego! It was so good to see him looking so good, relaxed and happy! Wishing that for all of your 'kids' too! It was a great trip, but THAT was the best part of it!
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Thank you everyone for the welcome. My son graduated from Auburn University in Auburn Alabama. It took 4 1/2 years, but if you ask him it felt like 10. As for Japan, he has loved it so far. Being new he is kept busy but he has been able to venture out some.
I plan to try and visit sometime next year. He keeps sending me messages of all the places he wants me to see. I'm miss him but I am also very proud and exciting for him.
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Welcome AUnavymom! My son is also in Japan now, at Yokota, which is actually an Air Force base, but it's the HQ of the Joint US Forces in Japan, so there are Navy and Army personnel there also. My son and his wife love Japan! They say they feel safe, and the people are friendly. They are trying to learn Japanese and speak it with the locals to be polite, but the truth is, most of the younger Japanese people speak English, having learned it in school. My son & wife have been to Tokyo several times on adventures, and they have had no trouble getting around on the trains, and buying what they want, etc.
Hubby and I are planning to visit them next summer! The only thing I'm NOT looking forward to is the 15-hr flight from the Midwest, where we live, to Tokyo! Are you planning to visit your son while he's stationed there?
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Comment by ChrisyDVM(Chris'sMom) on July 7, 2016 at 8:21am
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Welcome AUnavy mom! Where did your son attend college. My son also did ROTC; he attended Miami University, Oxford, OH, graduated/commissioned in 2010.
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