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Comment by OkSuzy on April 17, 2012 at 7:05pm

Nice Kathy!  My son was on 08-12.  It WAS a great feeling!....and congratulations!

Comment by M's mom on April 15, 2012 at 3:36pm

 rokymtns:  Operation Baking G.A.L.S. sounds like a wonderful group!  I'm sure the boxes are very much appreciated by service people who may not have family back home who can send them treats.  We all know that homemade cookies are WAY better than anything commercially packaged they could get.  Perhaps it's the LOVE that goes into them? :-)    Bless you for your efforts.

Comment by rokymtns on April 4, 2012 at 2:14am

Follow up - to nominate someone, click on "Contact Us", then "Nomination Form"

Comment by rokymtns on April 4, 2012 at 2:12am

I belong to a group, Operation Baking G.A.L.S. (Give A Little Support).  Just about every month I bake cookies and send a box to a military person stationed in harms way.  I've been doing this for about three years.  If you would like to nominate your son or daughter to receive boxes, go to www.bakinggals.com and fill out the nomination form.  It's a great organization. 

Comment by Tiramisu on April 4, 2012 at 1:15am

USPS flat-rate boxes are THE BEST!  :-)   Just sent him a variety of things....Pepperidge Farm goldfish, UnderArmour socks, etc.!  It seems so little, but it's our connection these days...

Comment by Sac Mom on April 4, 2012 at 12:09am

M's mom- My daughter graduated a year ago in March and is stationed in Sasebo, Japan. Since communication can be very difficult I have found that her ships facebook page does help to keep me informed to some degree and the facebook page of mom's who have son's or daughter's in Sasebo.  I live in CA and my daughter went to college in NY, so I was some what use to not hearing from her unless she needed something LOL.  I know what you mean at least I knew where she was and she was only a phone call away.  It's not always easy not hear from her.  She is currently on a 5 month deployment and the last time I hear from her was in Jan just before they left.  Even though I might not hear from as ofen as I would like I still email and send her funny cards every week.  I also send care packages every month or so.  Gotta love those USPS flat rate.boxes!!!  I try to get  creative when I send the packages so for her b-day I lined the inside box w/b-day paper,added party hats, noise makers, party favors, and a b-day cake in a jar and she loved it. 

Hang in there!!!  We are all here to help support one another.

Comment by M's mom on April 3, 2012 at 9:56pm

dmarie:  You are right, of course, about letting go and letting my son handle things.  He already is very independent.  My questions about OCS are more for MY OWN "need to know" than my son's!   I know that the limited communicaton allowed in OCS is, in part, to train the loved ones at HOME to deal with that aspect of Navy life.  We have never had daily communication with him all through college, maybe only weekly emails sometimes, but I still knew where he was, and I could call him if I wanted to. The hardest part for me, when he will eventually be on sea duty, will not really be the lack of communication, but just not knowing where he IS, due to security reasons.        Tiramisu: My heart goes out to you, not hearing from your son very often.  Hopefully, his sea tour will be over soon, and the lines of communication will open up.

Comment by Tiramisu on April 2, 2012 at 11:52am

Dmarie, I agree wholeheartedly with your comments.  Our son was commissioned one year ago yesterday.  In retrospect, our greatest worry while he was at OCS was that he would "roll back" or worse, "wash out."  Happily neither of those things happened. 

These days, our son has no cell phone access, no internet (which obviously means no Facebook), and no television.  We receive e-mail when he can send one--when they are not under RC, Reduced Communications, aka "River City."  We have a Google Alert set up on our computers for mention of his ship and occasionally we learn something through that.  When we hear ominious "saber-rattling" talk from certain world leaders, we know that our son is right in the middle of that region. 

 

Comment by M's mom on March 31, 2012 at 8:35am

  It would be nice if they were all given a few days afterwards to go home and get stuff that they couldn't have in OCS, like their laptops and civilian clothes.  (Here I am thinking like a MOM,and not the Navy!)   For young people of my son's generation, having to live without their cell phones and internet access for months in OCS has got to be torture!  :O   Welcome to primative survival without electronic devices, kids!  LOL!   So, after they move to Pensacola for flight school, are they then allowed a more "normal" lifestyle, i.e., can they have their cell phones and laptops in their living quarters? ( For after-school use, of course.)   Were you other moms able to communicate with your LO's more often when they were at their next school?  I realize communication is sparse when they are at sea.

Comment by navymom9875 on March 30, 2012 at 12:11am

My son graduated on a Friday and had to report to his first duty station on Monday.  He had been told ahead of time that he likely would get some time off but that wasn't to be.  When he reported on Monday morning they weren't even expecting him as the ship wasn't even in port.  He spent the first few weeks pushing papers in an office on base.  Hurry up and wait, as they say! 

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