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Comment by Confetti on July 20, 2018 at 9:17pm

Proud Mom - my sailor recently emailed and asked for emails about random things going on at home. There has been zero deployments, a few underway's, boat has been in dry dock in home port.  Sailor is on fast attack home boat.  There's no deployment boxes only half way boxes. 

Comment by Proud Mom on July 20, 2018 at 8:32pm

Thank you everyone, I really appreciate it. He is my first to leave the house its driving me nuts , typical mom I guess lol... Thanks again 

Comment by elizabeth_fl on July 20, 2018 at 7:11pm

SunflowerLynn: I haven't experienced familygrams myself yet but I hear now that they are up to 40 words and that you still have to be creative!

Comment by Charlene on July 20, 2018 at 6:27pm

such good advice ! My son will deployed soon for his first tour  Not talking to him or even texting through out the day will be so strange for us. But I know not communicating is to keep our sailors safe. 

Comment by SunflowerLynn on July 20, 2018 at 6:09pm

When my dad was a Cold War era submariner (60's/70's), and they got, I think, 6 twenty-five word "familygrams" while they were deployed. They were most definitely NOT private. My mom said she had to get really creative with those 25 words! Even had one rejected once, and a visit from a chaplain because she told dad I had a positive TB test result (turned out to be false alarm). Chaplain said, "We can't tell him that. There's nothing he can do, and he'll just worry. We won't bring him home for that anyway." Mom was mad, then quickly realized the chaplain was right. Silent service, indeed! But for good reason.

Comment by MaineGrammy on July 20, 2018 at 4:58pm

I would agree.  Rare chances to communicate, and in our case, our son calls his wife before he would us.  Also, emails are very few and far between.  Silent Service.

Comment by WearsLargeHats on July 20, 2018 at 1:48pm

Yeah, they call it the silent service for a reason. Just remember that they are safest when nobody knows where they are.
They get an email address. It is up to them whether to use it, and no telling when it will go out. You can send them (brief!) emails with no expectation of privacy, but no telling when they will get it. I think we only got 2 emails the whole time our son was on deployment. They keep busy and days run together. But he called when they made port. Nothing like an oh-dark-30 call from Guam! He is in the process of transitioning from an attack to a guided-missile submarine. It will be interesting to see if the communications are any different.

Comment by ArchyMom on July 20, 2018 at 12:25pm

Shea, thanks, that pretty much sums up what I know, as well. Son said to expect no communication, he will call when in port. Yep, you gotta trust God, the Command, the Boat, and the sailors' training.

Comment by Shea on July 20, 2018 at 12:22pm

@Proud Mom like some of the other comments have said it really depends on type of sub and what they are doing. My son has been in 6 years now and has done 2 deployments and countless underways. He’s on a fast attack. They have to be at a certain depth level to send and receive any communication. If they are still earning their “fish” they are limited on commuter time. If they are on a mission, there are weeks of nothing. The longest with no communication for me so far was 12 weeks. It can be hard but you just gotta trust God and know that our sailors are the most highly trained in the world.

Comment by ArchyMom on July 20, 2018 at 12:15pm

Proud Mom: Also, when they are out as non-quals (not completed their qualifications for their dolphins yet) they may not get any computer time. My son is out on first underway, no news in 4 weeks. No news is good news as they say!

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