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Comment by M's mom on July 18, 2015 at 9:11pm

GalleyMom: My son's Hi Moms was a cocktail reception with appetizers at a swanky downtown Newport hotel. Most of the women were in dresses, but some wore dressy slacks. The men were dressed in everything from sport coat & tie to khakis and polo shirts.  The candidates will be in their summer whites.  Graduation seemed to be more casual. I think I wore dress slacks and nice top to that.  Many wore jeans.  The new Ensigns will be in their "choker" (high-collar) dress white coats, so if you will be taking pics with your son afterward, you may want to consider what you want to be photographed in standing next to such a handsome Naval officer!

Re: the Candio box.  One box is enough because they all get so much and share it with each other.  They can't possibly eat all they are sent, so lots of it gets thrown out when they leave, so I tell moms not to go overboard.

Re: My D-I-L fattening up my son:  Thank goodness DS still has to pass physical fitness assessments every six months so he is forced to work out and stay in shape!!   D-I-L is one of those maddeningly skinny little things who weighs probably 105 pounds soaking wet, yet she eats like a horse!  She's always eating candy and always orders dessert when we take them out to dinner.  I am green with envy of her because I am, ahem, NOT like that!!   I've told DS that his metabolism will likely slow down when he hits thirty, so he'll have to start watching what he eats.  Hopefully D-I-L will not pout then if he starts refusing seconds of her delicious meals!  haha

Comment by Anna on July 18, 2015 at 2:07pm

GalleyMom,

Congratulations to your son!!!  He's almost there now!!!

I just got a phone call this morning - my Sailor Son is back on US soil after a stressful deployment.  So happy to have him back home with his family!!!!

Comment by M's mom on July 17, 2015 at 9:48pm

GalleyMom:  Congrats to your son!  Graduation is in sight!  Hope you're packing some special goodies to send in DS's Candi-O box.  He deserves it.   The candidate officers have not been allowed between-meal snacks or desserts for the first nine weeks, so they have been pretty much "detoxed" from sugar.  When they get their Candio boxes, they all gorge and make themselves sick!!!    I sent my son his favorite homemade cookies, and he said he could only eat a few before he had to pass them around to everybody else.  That would have been unheard of for him to share them in college!  

But, he said OCS taught him that he doesn't need all that sugar and he actually feels better without it, so he still doesn't eat as many sweets as he used to.  But since he's back from his 10-month deployment on the aircraft carrier, he says his dear wife is trying to feed him to death!!!!    She's quite the little cook, and said she's been saving up recipes that would have been way too much to make just for herself,  so now DS is the recipient of her pent-up cooking/baking urges.  He loves it!!!  Haha

Comment by Cheyann on July 8, 2015 at 12:35pm

Here is the Facebook page for friends and family of the the class of 17-15.  That is those who report to OCS on July 5th, 2015.

Hope to meet you soon!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/689817314485632/members/

Comment by Anna on July 7, 2015 at 11:24pm

M's mom,

Gotta love those plans we make when heading to a beach and then have Mother Nature have other plans.  My son is in Norfolk now (although presently he is deployed) and I was able to visit a year ago in early May.  It was beautiful weather and we got to spend some time on the beach!!!  I really hope we get a chance to visit with him and his family between the time he comes back from this deployment and before they leave for Hawaii!!!

Comment by M's mom on July 7, 2015 at 9:21pm

Anna:   The officer's intel school is also at Dam Neck , which is an annex of Oceana, but no one outside of the intel community has heard of it, so I just say he was at Oceana.  It's only a few miles away.  My son said he shopped at the NEX at Oceana because it was close to his off-base apartment.  When we went to Virginia Beach for DS's graduation from intel school, we got a hotel right on the beach and had hoped to enjoy some fun in the sun since it was June, but a tropical storm hit the day after we arrived, and it rained for three days!!!!   My son said that wasn't as bad as when hurricane Sandy roared through VB the previous October.  Glad we missed that!

Comment by Anna on July 6, 2015 at 10:55pm

VA not WA!!!!

Comment by Anna on July 6, 2015 at 10:55pm

M's mom,

That is a crazy, yet special story!!!  Who would have guessed.  My son went to Dam Neck for IS school.  I guess they use Oceana for the officers.  Although he was stationed at Oceana for his first 4 years when he was an AO.  He deployed on the Geo Washington and the Enterprise. I love that whole area of WA - Norfolk, Oceana, VB, the ocean . . .

Comment by M's mom on July 6, 2015 at 9:17pm

GalleyMom:   Norfolk is a nice area.  My son was in Intelligence School for 8 mos. at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, which just out on the coast from Norfolk. 

When DS was a teenager, we visited Norfolk and VB on a vacation.  Never dreamed at the time that he would one day be stationed there in the Navy!  If you visit your son in Norfolk, make sure you check out the Nauticus museum in downtown Norfolk.  It's all about ships, and the battleship USS Wisconsin is there to tour. 

In a weird coincidence, when we were at Nauticus about ten yrs ago with our then-teenaged son, he bought a big poster at the gift shop with drawings of one of each kind of all the US Navy warships. There was a missile cruiser, a destroyer,  an aircraft carrier, several kinds of subs, etc.  It is still hanging in "his" room today.  (I've gotta clean that out one of these days!)   A few months ago while he was deployed, I went in his room and just happened to look up at that poster, and the aircraft carrier depicted is CVN-70, the USS CARL VINSON, the very ship he was then aboard !!!!!!!!   (goosebumps)    I had never really looked at that poster in ten years, but there was his ship!   Felt one of those strange mother/child psychic connection moments!!!!  

Comment by M's mom on July 3, 2015 at 10:58pm

GalleyMom:   Yes, it is hard on the sailors' "significant others" when their LO's are away on a ship.  My son just celebrated his second wedding anniversary and he was gone for 10 months of it, at sea on the carrier USS Carl Vinson.  But, his wife knew what she was getting into when they got married.   My husband and I kept in touch with D-I-L and sent her little care packages so she felt our support.  She will be able to go with him to his next duty station at a base in Japan, so they are both happy about that. 

What kind of a ship will your son be assigned to, and where is its home port?   (You don't have to tell the ship's name if you think that might be too sensitive info.)   Hopefully, he and the GF can make things work out.

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