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Comment by Diane2557 on August 1, 2009 at 3:18pm

Welcome warpo2! I look forward to future discussions like you. While we're all at different stages of our child/ren's lives, we have so much to share with each other! With my son approaching his 4th anniversary in the Navy, it doesn't seem that long ago that he was in college already starting to prepare for this. I look forward to sharing my thoughts and experiences with you and all the others.

Comment by Diane2557 on July 31, 2009 at 2:34pm

Dear Helomom ... I'm beginning to know how you feel. We're here in the lower south east and our son is in the upper northwest! And if he goes out this fall, we may not see him for quite a while. And, yes, thank goodness for technology. It is so good to at least have some connection with them. I can't imagine the old days when you waited, day after day for a letter to come in the mail. I'm just happy to be in touch and know that he is safe and well. By the way, I googled Suquamish, WA and that's just due south of NAS Whidbey Island! We were there in March for the first time and it is beautiful. Actually, in another week my daughter, after spending 6 days with a college roommate in Vancouver, BC will visit her brother for a few days before we take her back to school in the north east! (We've now got 3 of the four corners of the US covered. Best to you and god bless our children.

Comment by AH on July 31, 2009 at 10:33am

Rose...Just a word of warning. Don't be upset if when you call, you don't get the answers that you want. Just think of IFS, API, Primary and Advanced as extensions of the teen years when answers were not always forthcoming. It is a bunch of work and they just get busy and don't always like to answer questions. It really isn't personal. I know that this is true from reading posts made. I've been through it all now and now that he is in an active squadron, there are a new list of duties and responsibilities in addition to the flying portion. Hang in there. We live in Colorado. Land locked state that it is - we only get to see our son on rare occasions. You might get lucky and have him do a cross country home. They like to show off their planes to friends and family. Unfortunately for us, we didn't get that in Primary or Advanced but when he got to Lemoore, he got to hitch a ride with an instructor. They let him fly back to Lemoore so we actually got to see him fly a Super Hornet. Pretty exciting. He had only flown one about 4 times and had his solo the day that they came out. At the RAG or what ever they call it now moves fast once you get out of the simulators.

Comment by Paymaster on July 31, 2009 at 8:59am

After 12 years I feel like Helomom, my son and his family will be on the same coast as us. Just think I will have all my children in one state! We make good of what we can.

Comment by Helomom on July 31, 2009 at 1:21am

DianeR- I always get a little jealous when I read about moms who are lucky enough to have their kids stationed near them. We live in Washington State near Naval Base Kitsap. Our daughter was stationed in Orlando, Memphis, San Diego, and Lemoore, CA. Our son has had shore assignments in San Diego, Pensacola, Corpus Christi, back to Pensacola, back to San Diego, Norfolk, back to San Diego, now Jacksonville. That's plus sea tours and one IA to Afghanistan. Heck, we now think he is stationed close to home when he is on the west coast. I constantly thank the stars above for the internet and frequent flyer miles.

Comment by Diane2557 on July 30, 2009 at 8:50pm

Mamajoey ... congratulations to both of you: your son for passing, and you for making it through the day. I know the day can feel like the longest ones of your life when they're making it over these major hurdles. I felt the same way when my son had to do his first landing on an aircraft carrier!

Comment by Diane2557 on July 30, 2009 at 8:29pm

Rose, you're not alone in those feelings and the distance. We live in the south, my son went to school in the south and then started his career in Pensacola, Milton FL, and Meridian MS. At least we were always within the allowable distance (350 mi.) for him to come home occasionally or we would visit him. After he got his wings last July, they sent him to Whidbey Island WA ... almost the most northwestern area from us here in Atlanta. He can't come home. We went from July til this past March to see him when we went north to him. We stay in touch ... lots of emails, phone calls, Facebook, and I sent him a webcam for his computer so we can see each other as well. I'm not looking forward to his first mission this fall when we will not be able to be in touch as much. Do all you can to connect all possible ways. Good luck!

Comment by BEVERLY (kyles mom) on July 9, 2009 at 11:40am

chris please explain about how to find flight info on the different squardonts

Comment by BEVERLY (kyles mom) on July 9, 2009 at 11:39am

kathy that is so cool. kyle just finished sere school he said he does not want to do that again

Comment by Paymaster on July 6, 2009 at 3:30pm

Beverly....Thanks for the info. My was in 23 flying a SH60. He is tranferring and will have a new assignment next month.

Jody

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