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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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For Moms with Aviators or anyone interested
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Discussion Forum
Moms with Aviators in training in Corpus Christi
Started by missmellen. Last reply by missmellen Jul 11, 2024. 8 Replies 2 Likes
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Comment by OBRIENFM on June 3, 2009 at 3:01pm
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Thank you, N4Ms, for such a warm welcome. I'm so glad I found you. I used to belong to a group called NavyMoms but think that it has now disbanded. They were a great help to me in Davin's early years. He enlisted in 1997 & came to be a Naval Aviator in a round-about way, first having completed Nuclear Power School but deciding on a career as an officer. It's been quite a journey & very interesting for our whole family. Currently he's a Lieutenant flying F/A-18s with the "Bulls" squadron for the USS Harry S. Truman based out of Oceana, Virginia. The Navy has been so good for my son, & we are extremely proud. Just wish he & his family were close to us here in California.
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Comment by Paymaster on June 3, 2009 at 9:02am
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That's why they say to eat bananas when they are flying. They taste the same go ing down as they do coming up:)
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Comment by Sherry James on May 22, 2009 at 2:39pm
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Congratulations to the new Ensigns & 2nd LTs of the Naval Academy class of 2009!! Thanks to the magic of CNN.com live I even got to see my mentee 2nd LT Jillian D. graduate today along with a thousand of her shipmates.
Please have a blessed, happy Memorial Day Weekend to all and thank you for your young men and women's service to our great country!!
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Congratulations Kathy, what great jobs our kids have! And you get a video and photos, second best thing to being there to witness it yourself.
Chris, sounds like Erin is doing well also. How proud you must be of her and her accomplishments.
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Comment by AH on May 20, 2009 at 1:01pm
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Carrol, I know that my son's squadron has an emergency call number. You might check on the number and see if you can call that too ease your mind.
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Yours is the first post that I've seen also since the same time on May 17th. Really strange. Maybe the glitch has been solved.
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Comment by PattyM on May 13, 2009 at 11:05am
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I meant, same IFS class. And Nate sounds familiar, too!
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Hi everyone! My daughter just finished IFS in Bay Minette, Alabama (and I went to visit her there :-) She will start API on July 2nd. I was reading last night from someone who had a son named Josh? I would bet he and my daughter were in the same API class!
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Mike's very first flight in a T-34 was an emergency landing. It got to be a pretty big joke that when ever he and his on-wing were in the plane together that there would be a problem. In fact, one time, one of his buddies was in a plane that took a few minutes before he was supposed to. A light came on and due to whatever light it was, they had to declare an emergency on the ground. Apparently his buddy bet his instructor $100 that it was Mike. He was doing emergency manuevers in the T-34's and the instructor was throwing things left and right at him and had to tell him that he was serious about there being smoke in the cockpit. Another emergency landing. T-34's were not my favorite time for him to be flying. Fortunately we haven't had any other emergency, THAT I KNOW OF. It is certainly better to know afterwards than during.
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Ok....Well mine likes to call me right after they have incidents. He likes to debrief with me before he tells his wife. I asked him once why he calls me first and not his wife or his father. He said that it was because I don't judge him, listen calmy and he knows no matter what I won't loose it.
He has had three incidents, one when his landing gear wouldn't come down, one where he lost all his hydrolics (sp) and the last when he was in Iraq and suffered from heat exhaustion (120 degrees in the shade).
So long as he feels like he needs to talk, I will listen. I my do my own debriefing once we are off the phone with the closest person sitting next to me, but he never knows that.
Welcome to the world of Navy Aviators!
If I am lucky I will get a phone call from him on Mothers Day. He is on his thrid deployment, this time to Afghanistan (independent assignment with the Army). I know if he is on base and can get a call out he will. But if he is out on patrol, he won't be able to. But I know he will be thinking of me.
Hope all of you hear from your Aviators this Sunday.
Fair Winds and following seas
Jody
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