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Comment by JudyM on October 12, 2011 at 8:45pm: What great pictures Navy wife and mom. Paymaster, you are awesome, reminding us of the Navy birthday. We are all part of that extended family.

Comment by Paymaster on October 12, 2011 at 3:25pm: Happy 236th Birthday to United States Navy!

Comment by Rosemarie on October 12, 2011 at 12:09pm: marcink6--I'm still confused about the winging ceremony you went to.... that wasn't after primary training ..was it? I thought they got their "wings of gold" after advanced training. You said your son was now going to Jax for P3 school. What was he training on in Corpus before he got winged?

Comment by lsP3Orion on October 10, 2011 at 5:42pm: Had a bit of excitement yesterday - got a call from son's GF saying he was very sick and was heading to the hospital in San Salvador (with Navy personnel). Turned out to be an emergency appendectomy and since there is no actual naval base there, he was going to a local hospital. He called about 20 minutes before surgery and there were two Corpmen (is that correct) who would be staying there during surgery and into the night - all turned out well and it didn't rupture. He was also able to call during recovery and already knew that the Packers had beaten the Falcons! Priorities

What's really nice is that we have received 3 calls from 2 different Lt. Commanders, and one call from the flight surgeon who was actually in Sigonella and was in touch with the Salvadorian doctors to give us updates on his condition. I must say, the squadron does take care of the families! So we are now breathing a little easier today.

Comment by AH on October 10, 2011 at 4:56pm: Nancy, I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to call you this weekend, but it sounds like you are a bit under the weather. I hope the solid foods works and that the antiabiotics start working. Of course, antibiotics always screw up my stomach.

We leave Friday to go see DS and the Lemoore Airshow. We are renting a Mustang and driving from LAX to Lemoore. Jeff's later mid-life crisis. I just hope this gets it out of his system. I can't wait to see the brat. He has been on Comptuex or something like that. I don't know if he is home yet or not. We only got 1 email as they were going on "River City" through the exercises and wasn't getting emails or being able to send them except on a limited basis. For the uniniated, "River City" is restricted communications. The first time I heard this phrase, I had to look it up! The Abraham Lincoln is scheduled out of Everett the end of the year and it will not be returning there. On the FB page for the Lincoln, the Cpt had a video talking about Pre-Deployment. I'm bummed that that they will be out again at Christmas. 2 years in a row. With DS being an only child, it's hard.

Nancy..... Hope you get to feeling better and I'll try and call after we get back from Lemoore.

Comment by marcink6 on October 10, 2011 at 12:52pm: JAMI, Thanks for the advice, I'll check out youtube. My son leaves for SERE this Friday -- I'm apprehensive about knowing how butal it is:(

Rosemarie, There were 3 "functions" the day my son was winged: (1) blessing of the wings in church; (2) soft winging - aviators and family gathered in one of their classrooms and each introduced themselves and their families and their XO wripped off a patch on their flights suits and velcroed new patches on; (3) at the Bay Club in Corpus the aviators were all dressed in their dress whites (along with a few marines and Italians) there was a very nice ceremony when the aviators got their "wings of gold". It was a large class -- about 25 aviators. After we took our aviator out to dinner, we then went to a "tequila bar" and partied the night away with all of those young aviators. What a treat!!

Comment by JudyM on October 10, 2011 at 10:09am: Leslie, sounds like a fascinating course. Let me know if you need anyone to practice on.

I will keep those good thoughts for the solo flight.

Comment by Helomom on October 9, 2011 at 2:24pm: Weather can really be an issue in Corpus. When our son did his solo qual the primary field actually closed before they could get him back due to a sudden squall. They had him land at one of the outer fields so his solo was really a solo. He landed and secured the plane. They sent a van out to pick him up and went back to pick up the plane after the storm. We were out of the country on vacation at the time and he sent us quite an entertaining email describing his flight. I printed it out and put it in an envelope taped to the back of the official letter from his CO we had framed.

Comment by lsP3Orion on October 9, 2011 at 2:10pm: Nancy - cannot believe you posted while in the ER to us! Hope you are feeling better soon - an ear infection as an adult is one of the worst pains I have ever felt!