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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.
Discussion Forum
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!
Started by PattyM Dec 25, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
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 Marianne on November 26, 2011 at 11:35am
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Hi, Kris! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving despite the absences at the table. Conor leaves Monday night. He had car trouble on the way home from Norfolk, so we lost 3 days - very sad. Still, it is great to have him home. I am already dreading his first Christmas away. He's missed the last two years at Thanksgiving, but never Christmas. I passed on your info about furniture loans, which is great, because he reports in on 12/1 and the Navy isn't even picking up his furniture in VA until 12/5. Typical! He has a friend who deployed in August, so Ian is looking for off base housing for the two of them. Conor's squadron "mentor" is a woman who's been really good about giving him info, too. Hope all is well.
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Comment by rokymtns on November 16, 2011 at 3:57pm
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Thank you for the advice and well wishes! I'm looking forward to the winging and will post an update after.
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Comment by Gail (Gailie) on November 15, 2011 at 9:34pm
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Rokymtns... congratulations to your son. Just wear whatever you feel will show respect for his accomplishment. I saw everything when our son was winged also in P'cola in 2006. He is now stateside loving the Navy. Lots of adventure awaits your son. To him we say " fly safe". Enjoy his journey! !
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Congratulations,Rokymtns! It is really a special event; it meant a lot more to my son than his college graduation and commissioning ceremonies. He was winged at Norfolk in August and it was a lot more than I had expected. In the morning they had a debriefing and tour of both the plane and simulators. Most of us had lunch at the officers club. Then there was the actual ceremony (my daughter and I wore nice summer dresses, which worked fine; only one mom had on a suit), followed by a reception w/ cake back at the OC. Norfolk really went all out, but it was a small group (only 5). Enjoy!
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Thanks for the info Kris. That is a great picture. I will wear a Sunday dress which will fall inbetween formal and informal. They will find out where they will go right around the time they wing in 2 weeks. I can't wait to go.
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I love that air museum! Thank you Donna. I guess I will find out soon - I know they have a speaker planned.
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Jacksonville NAS
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Hi all! My son will be winging next month and I was wondering what the ceremony will be like?? Any info for a newbie? Thank you.
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Thanks for the comments on Japan. My son will be based at Atsugi, and is on the Hawkeyes. Can't help but think the thing looks like it has a flying saucer on top! Japan was his first choice, but now that it is getting closer I detect some nerves about all the logistics of the move. Stupid question #1 - if I send a care package using the APO address, and they aren't on ship, will it get rerouted to the land base? I feel really dumb about things like that. Kris, glad to know your two seem to being okay there. We are lucky to know several Japanese families (daughter's college roommate, a couple i "adopted" while they were at Northwestern for two years, etc.), but Conor isn't the type to ask for help easily. He will be home for Thanksgiving before flying over, for which I am profoundly grateful. I can tell this group is going to be a lifeline; my friends are wonderful, but they just don't get what the service is like. Love her dearly, but one friend keeps telling me she'll fly over with me for Easter break (I teach high school) and she doesn't "get it" when I try to explain the irregularity of ship schedules or OPSEC.
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As far as we know, he will be arriving right about when the carrier is due back in port. I hope so, because then he will have some time to get acclimated at Atsugi. Thanks for the support!
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