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Comment by Storymom on July 6, 2009 at 9:45pm

Jess....sounds like you need to talk to the ombudsman that is associated with your sailor's squadron. He/she should be able to assist you in many ways re: the move, where to stay, problems with paychecks, etc. Hopefully someone will speak up here and lead you in the right direction as to how to contact the ombudsman in JAX.

Comment by Helomom on June 30, 2009 at 4:20pm

I have a question...where is the best place to watch fireworks on the 4th if you live in the Eagle Harbor/Fleming Island Plantation side of Orange Park?

Comment by Helomom on June 30, 2009 at 1:10am

Storymom, that is an AMAZING photo! Wow!

Comment by Storymom on June 30, 2009 at 12:32am

Here's what my son witnessed at the Target Store near the Base on Friday

Comment by Helomom on June 29, 2009 at 10:12pm

Our daughter experienced a tornado hitting the base while she was in Millington at A school in 1991. She said she would never forget the color of the sky, that weird green glow.

Comment by Helomom on June 29, 2009 at 4:31pm

I guess this latest round of storms were pretty dramatic. I was following them on the New4Jax site. Got this email from my daughter-in-law..."The weather on Friday was dramatic for sure but we missed it in it's true glory because we were at Costco. We were leaving Costco and heading South on 95 at 4 pm. The sky in front of us was BLACK and the lighting bolts heading to the ground were every couple of seconds. I had never seen anything like it before. We were skirting around the edges as we started to hit the rain we turned and headed west across the Buckman bridge then south on the 17 towards home. We basically drove around it. It had obviously already come through Orange Park with limbs down and wet roads but we didn't get to see that." The last time she sent me a storm report she and the kids were in the pantry under the stairs in their house in Chesapeake, VA as the tornado tore through Suffolk. Before that we had a hurricane in Pensacola and tornadoes in Corpus. Boy, they Navy certainly picks places with interesting weather...

Comment by Storymom on June 29, 2009 at 3:43pm

Hi, My son took some awesome pictures of the funnel cloud right next to the base....he was in the Target store, and they started closing up the doors, and telling everybody to stay inside.... but my son ran out to take pictures! Very scary, but I guess it started out as a Water Spout, THEN became a funnel cloud as it passed over the land. Did some minor damage in certain areas. you can google it, and also see some footage on their local tv stations.
I'll see if i can download my son's photos....i grew up in Wisconsin, and this terrifies me, but my son was OH boy...gotta take a picture to send to MOM! Ha!

Comment by Helomom on June 24, 2009 at 1:58am

Thanks for the tip.

Comment by Helomom on June 24, 2009 at 12:51am

I've read through the one on the main page but that just left me thinking, "What can you post?" I would love to know what everyone's sailors do. But then I would need to know what mine does... and I never really know. Short answer, he flies. We see him once, maybe twice a year. He calls when he remembers to, emails occasionally. Mostly he works. Thank God he has a wonderful wife who keeps us in the loop. But for example, he was on a IA in Afghanistan for 6 months and I didn't know what he did there until I read a commendation he got. Back to my question... what can we post? What can we discuss? What can we ask?

Comment by Helomom on June 23, 2009 at 11:40pm

Thanks for the welcome aboard, dusty dog. And Storymom, I'm unfamiliar with all the OPSEC rules but I guess I can say we are affiliated with HS-7. I'm not a new Navy mom but I'm new the the N4M site. Our daughter did 4 and out from 90-94. Our son did NROTC, commissioned in 97. He has kicked around a bit and has landed with the Dusty Dogs for a while.

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