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Parents whose Sailors are stationed at FT. Meade
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Site for parents who might have sailors stationed on Ft. Meade
Members: 60
Latest Activity: Jul 9, 2020
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Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on August 25, 2011 at 7:16am
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Well we all survived the earthquake now on to the hurricane My mantra these days and I repeat it often is "the NAVY knows how to handle a natural disaster, they know how, they know how" LOL
Jill enjoy your time with your son My son is doing is first funeral for the honor guard on Saturday (guess that might be contingent upon Irene)
Welcome Bonnie My son just got to Ft Meade almost 2 weeks ago His first duty station is there
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Comment by BonnieRN on August 24, 2011 at 3:32pm
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Well how about I take Jills place ? I am new to this group. My daughter just got to Ft Meade on Saturday, graduated on Fri from bc. She is there for A school, mass communications. I saw that she somehow managed to get a message on facebook (no phone no computer yet) that she felt the quake and it was scary. haha...and now hurricane Irene is coming that way. What a reception !
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Comment by northchannel on August 24, 2011 at 9:05am
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Have not been on in awhile. Anyway, my son works near BWI and gets off about 2. He said the traffic after the quack was horrible driving back to Ft. Meade. Missed the funeral duty chat, but my son did that while he was waiting for security clearance and actually liked it.
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Clockard - Talked to my son and they felt it on base but he was outside practicing rifling for the honor guard but it turned out all good
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Debbie He tells me that it will be funeral duty mostly and maybe some other ceremonies
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Clockard I would love that I will let you know when I book my flight FYI my son called a little while ago and said he was selected to be honor guard. I guess when you first arrive at Meade from CTR A school you are on holding again for a bit to get a different security clearance Well until he can actually do his job, he is going to be honor guard. I thought it was great. and a honor..he wasnt quite as thrilled
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Clockard I have a business trip to Colorado the second week in October so Im thinking of tagging a few days on one of those weekends so I layover a day or two in Maryland Wow next Monday already Clockard Bet you are getting very excited!
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Comment by momoffour(Ship 11 div 119) on August 16, 2011 at 2:26am
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Welcome to the group!!
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My son reported to Ft Meade yesterday after 2 weeks leave here at home. He drove his truck there and picked up a A School classmate in Philadelphia So Im officially a "Ft Meade Mom" now
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Comment by Kac46047 on August 9, 2011 at 11:49am
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Yes, they will love it! its completly different then a big wedding. Very intimate, i loved how it was just my husband and I and one other sailor who came to take picture for us.
We are going to have our reception in 2 weeks when he's finally on leave and we can make it up to where our relatives are. THen we can celebrate with everyone, but i still love the fact that it was jsut us two on our wedding, i wouldnt have changed anything (maybe getting married in a church lol but you cant win them all)
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