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Comment by Wyette on June 22, 2010 at 10:20pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE! If we were closer, I would take you out to dinner so we can talk it up about your kids and my sailor...then have cake! : ) I'm sure you're not forgotten... it's probably circumstances that prevented them form contacting you today. You seem like such a caring Mom...I'm sure they're thinking about you.

Comment by RightHereWaiting on June 22, 2010 at 6:26pm

Anti M has a ton of stories!! She's just awesome like that. lol

There are so many people in all walks of life that could use a lesson in manners. Even though I've only been in the Navy for a minute, I have no problem telling off our new corpsman that come to the ward if they forget their place and professionalism. I tell them, "I'm just letting you know now as a courtesy to YOU before your chain of command notices and they mess you up." The two I had a problem with were @$$es about it all. Their response was "I don't care." I about lost it, but instead took a deep breath, shrugged my shoulders and walked away. Can't force the stupid. They finally got it one day, just took a while for them to understand. They would follow eachother to do everything and never get any actual work done, they put no effort towards putting a good foot down, let alone their best foot forward! The straw on the camels back was one day all the nurses [civilian and officers] were talking about the two. Asking what was up with them. At one point they took a patient down to her car TOGETHER [there is NO reason for them both to go, AT ALL] and when they came back up they sloppy put the wheel chair away in our "storage room"... when I went back there I couldn't even get IN because all the wheelchairs were in the way from the patients they had been taking down. I was ticked!!! I had JUST spent a good while cleaning that place up the day before and making sure people could get in and out wihtout a problem. So as calm as I could, I hunted one of them down and dragged him back there [the other one followed-- WEIRD!] asked them how hard it was to put those chairs away properly. And once they gave me crap for that, that's when I started telling them they needed to straighten up, everyone was noticing their poor behavior. OH!!! AAAAND that morning, one of them had seriously offended one of our doctors [an officer]. She didn't say anything, but I've worked with her enough to know she wasn't happy at all. Uhg. I hate people like that!!! Manner manners manners!!

Comment by Wyette on June 22, 2010 at 6:11pm

LOL Anti M! Such a funny story! You got anymore? Hahaha...
I think that there are definitely some great Officers out there, I've met plenty. There is never a good excuse for bad manners or extreme cockiness and I've met a handful that could use a lesson or two about manners. I like to believe that there are more good than bad though.

Comment by RightHereWaiting on June 22, 2010 at 6:05pm

Lol, don't worry about the mix up Wyette, shoot I used to mix up rank/rate all the time. ;p This whole journey is a learning experiance! :] You'll get it down. Not like any of us are going to be offended by the mix up! haha [#1 reason I love mingling with these moms! They're FANfreakinTASTIC! hehe].

Chances are, Lee and him know eachother. Those pictures you posted, those are from the Bridge? Lee's up there a lot with his job. :]

And Anti M's right! We all know there's good and bad. Shoot, our Sailors come from all over. You get all types in all jobs and ranks.
I LOVE MY ENSIGNS!!! Hehehe, this hospital is a "training command" so we have many, many ensigns. <3 Then they turn into JGs and become jerk-faces. Grr. But all my ensigns are lovely!! I <3 my Ensigns.

HAHAHAHA! Nice Anti M. Do people not realize that rolling over after a surgery is going to hurt a heck of a lot more than getting a shot in your thigh? Goofballs. And I can't believe that person dropped you. Idiot. wow. Some things amaze me.

Comment by Anti M on June 22, 2010 at 5:17pm

Every enlisted knows there are good officers and bad officers. They can make or break a tour of duty. I had one so bad, I don't think the Navy would let him serve these days. We had one who was so good, that our morale shot through the roof. Ensigns are mostly cute and trainable, like puppies. LOL.

RHW, I have a nurse/sailor story for you. While I was in Japan, and still active duty, I had my second ectopic pregnancy. I was sent into emergency surgery immediately after the ultra-sound. When I was being moved into my room post-op, the corpsmen lifted me from the gurney, and the gal who had my shoulders DROPPED me! I howled in pain. The nurse came in; I couldn't see him clearly, a LCDR, I think. But I sure could see that needle full of morphine!! "Roll over," he said. I knew I couldn't roll without help or pain. "Put it right here," I said, tapping my thigh muscle. "But that will hurt," he said. "It already F(*%^ing hurts, you F&^%*$ing F^$#$%&er!!! Put it in my F&^%$%^$ leg!" He swabbed and jabbed and I never saw the poor guy in my room again. The only time I ever cussed out an officer!

Comment by RightHereWaiting on June 22, 2010 at 4:18pm

Lol, too funny and look at your son! He's all kinds of decorated. Show off. LOL!!
I have 2 ribbons. And with the command I'm assigned to... that won't be changing unless I go FMF [fleet marine force] or with another deployable unit after this. LAME! Neither of which options is the hubby happy about. Actually I brought it up today with him and I was laughing becaues the Marines seem to spend half their deployment on their ships. I had then said maybe it wouldn't be so bad deploying with them after all, wouldn't spend that much time in the sandbox. Lee was instantly unsettled and didn't want to talk about that. Poor thing.
He's incredibly protective over me when it comes to me and the Navy. He's so afraid of anything happening to me and would be a disaster if I got stuck with a Marine unit. But my Senior Chief basically pointed out my two "options" for my next duty: FMF or Fleet Surgical Team. With the Surg team I'd be all over the place with different ships. Deploying here and there.
Uuuuhm. Regardless of what they want to do with me, that's our planned time frame to have kids, sooo yeah. They can't deploy me for the 9mo I'm preggo, and for one year after. I'll just have to explain to them it'll be a waste of man-power to send me there. Senior didn't seem to understand that when I brought it up with him. lol

Comment by RightHereWaiting on June 22, 2010 at 11:16am

Janet, I just looked up Wolfie. Too stinkin cute! I love it. Wish the Dubuque could have something to relax their mind like that. :] I didn't see it on the Peliliu site, but the Marines site instead. Is your son a Corpsman with the Marines? If so, I definitely saw him. Haha too cool.

Comment by RightHereWaiting on June 22, 2010 at 11:09am

Janet-- I'm a Corpsman myself, except I'm at the Naval Hospital instead of a ship. :] The wolfie thing is so cute! I'll have to go look at that. Too funny. Should help to keep their spirits up during all of this.

Wyette-- Haha! If ONLY that's how it worked, people would pick up in no time!! lol I meant what is his Job when I asked about his rate. Rank is the O-1 thing. :]
I think most officers end up learning quite a bit from the enlisted [even the Nurses I work with, believe it or not. I caught a mistake a Nurse nearly made my first day on this ward]. The ones I work with are fantastic, thankfully, but I've ran into a lot of disrespectful officers who will quickly take their cover off to avoid returning your salute, will walk while texting/talking on the phone in uniform and so RUDELY, again, not return a salute [I think that is incredibly offensive], and more often than not we, the JUNIOR enlisted are expected to set the standards. It's a little ridiculous. Because, like you said and how your husband feels, it should be the officers setting the example, but in Lee and I's experiance, that's usually not the case. It's nice to know your fiance has the positive mentality of it all.
As far as the respect thing. An enlisted man should never say or do anything disrespectful [even if their years of experiance far outweigh those of a junior offcier], but-- in my humble opinion-- if one expects respect, they should first give then receive.

And FSA is if your sons are cranking in the galley. :]

Comment by Wyette on June 22, 2010 at 10:45am

@ AntiM- LOL! I almost fell off my chair when I realized my mistake!Thanks for the correction. That is a gigantic jump isn't it? I was trying to be logical use O for officer and 6 as the years counted that he's been in the military (He was a reservist for 5 years, and 1.5 years as an officer). I guess that's not how it's works. : ( I should have paid better attention to Navy 101. Hehehe...

Christopher is very thankful for the enlisted. Although he does expect respect from them- he's not too into that "I'm an Officer and you're an Enlisted" mentality...

Wow- Dubuque has definitely sailed into your life more than most! You must be very proud. Too bad they are going to retire the ship after this deployment. I'm sure that there's plenty of Dubuque stories to tell in your circle! : )

@Pamela - Sounds like your boy is in demand! 2 ships, 1 deployment! He must be very good at what he does.

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

Comment by Anti M on June 22, 2010 at 9:13am

HI Wyette!

An Ensign is an O-1, an O-6 is a Captain! Big difference, LOL. The enlisted guys know they have to show the new officers the ropes, the smart ones learn from them. Sounds like you have a smart man on your hands!

My hubby was an ET on the Dubuque ages ago, my friend Troy is an ET there now. That's electronic technician. Sort of a family tradition, well, except my nephew joined and is an EM (Electrician's Mate) going to nuke school. He'll be on subs.

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