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A group for moms, family members, spouses or significant others of Naval Flight Officers. A place to share stories, information, and to support each other.
Members: 43
Latest Activity: Dec 13, 2021
My son graduated in 2004, was winged in 2006, has been on one deployment, and was recently selected for Test Pilot School- yes they take NFO's! It's been an exciting and sometimes emotional few years.
Please tell us a little about yourself and your NFO. If you have questions about training, deployment, or anything else, please ask. There will be several members with experience to help out the newbies.
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Travel on USS Theodore Roosevelt - Parent of Officer
Started by ProudStepMom. Last reply by ProudStepMom Feb 14, 2018. 4 Replies 0 Likes
My son said there was a possibility that a family member could travel on the aircraft carrier from Hawaii to California (at the end of deployment). He didn't know if this opportunity was limited to…Continue
Merry Christmas, all!
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Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday! Tracy DID get to come home for Christmas weekend :-) I LOOOOOVE having her on the West Coast for the first time in 4 years :-) Love to all....
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Comment by sheriswick on October 15, 2012 at 2:32pm
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He is the 2nd one from the left on the group picture. Thanks for the information.
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Collin is my son. I haven't seen the pictures on facebook, I didn't know they had a page.
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Comment by AnnfromLouisiana on October 10, 2012 at 9:55pm
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sheriswick--have you seen the pictures posted on the VAW-120 facebook page of the winging of class N12-1? If not check it out Good pictures. Which one is your son?
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Thank You all!!! Snowmc you are very right about the Navy keeps you guessing. LOL.
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Comment by lou2949 on October 3, 2012 at 5:40pm
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Congratulations Sheriswick.....my son is in VAW-121 squadron out of Norfolk.....they've been deployed since June....back in March. They've been very busy over there.......tense times for sure. Communication has been great with an occasional phone call, email and chatting on FB though he can say very little but still wonderful to know he's doing well and loves his job. Too bad about the pictures...that wasn't the case when DS winged last March..we took tons. Such a happy time.....good luck to your son....he will love it.
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Comment by snowmc on October 3, 2012 at 3:59pm
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Congratulations Sheriswick. My son winged a year ago in Oklahoma City....a very special time for everyone. Now the real fun begins!
Just returned from visiting him in OKC. Hadn't seen him for almost a year. He will be deployed for the next two months and then will be home in January for a short leave. His wife is coming home for the holidays...both families live here.
Navy life always keeps you guessing!
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Sheriswick--Congrats to your son and to you. My son just classed up last week. He'll wing in June and will go to Point Mugu (wanted Norfolk but the hat pull was not in his favor). Oh well Semper Gumpy. What a shame though no pictures.
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We went to my son's winging on Sept. 28th. Class N12-1 in Norfolk. It was very nice. Very proud of my son!!!! He is staying in Norfolk. He is in squadron VAW-123 Screwtops. Very nice ceremony. The only problem was that we weren't aloud to take any pictures.
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Comment by Marianne on September 3, 2012 at 11:49pm
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Welcome, KC11! Kris P is a great guru because she's been through this twice. All I can add is that when my son was at P'Cola, there were a lot of frustrating delays due to gaps when they have too many studenst and not enough flights available! He did get to due one cross-country home to Chicago, which was great. It helped that his IP was also a Chicago area native!
My sister and I drove down halway through his Florida training, only to have him stuck with two flights on one of the three days that we were there. The only thing you can do is commiserate when the schedules get thrown off. Norfolk (he went Hawkeye) was much more organized and he even got to come home once on schedule, as well as getting to do an air show in Rockford and coming home for one night. You get really excited to see them for even the shortest period. We really didn't go down for any "events" other than his winging last August. That, of course, was wonderful.
Even after that, you can't count on a schedule. He got his first choice, Japan, but even then didn't go over until the end of November.
Kris P - Good to hear from you. I know that you are looking forward to seeing all three of your sons in Scotland. We are going to Japan for Christmas if everything works out, but your son will be heading back before then, right? I was hoping to meet him, but am glad you'll be together.
Thanks for the phone tip. The three weeks they were in port was great in terms of talking. I just sent off another "ship" package Saturday. They have so little room that I pretty much stick with food and magazines that he can share. The squadron has been really good for his first deployment; hope he is that lucky in the future, even though that is a long way way off.
Now that we've been back in school for three weeks already, I hope I'll be better at keeping up with all of you. Thanks for all the support.
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@Ann & Kris. Big Big Help. is there a timing to each phase. I see time frames for API & Primary, but what about Intermediate & advanced to winging?
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