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Comment by Anna on February 3, 2009 at 10:09pm

Alexandrea,
How is your hubby doing? Have you heard from him much? I would be more than happy to send him some cards and/or letters of encouragement. You can request me as a friend if you'd like and then I can get his address from you.
Anna

Comment by Anna on February 3, 2009 at 10:07pm

Angie,
Thank you so much for your offer!!! It's so nice to know there are other Navy moms that can fill in for me if needed!!!
Anna

Comment by Anna on February 3, 2009 at 10:04pm

Karen,
Where is your dear son now? If this is a condition that can be treated will the Navy let him stay in in a less stressful environment than subs? Can he get a second opinion where he is before they release him?
I will keep you and your son in my prayers! I know of a good doctor here - several in fact - but they are at the Cleveland Clinic - in Ohio!! They did wonders on my Dad.
Anna

Comment by Susan mom to Niko on February 3, 2009 at 9:26pm

Angie... have a great week. We miss you already!

Alexandea count me in on letter writing! My son said the letters were really important during boot camp. He said some guys don't get any mail and that the guys that did get mail passed their letters around so they could all read a supportive message!

Comment by Anna on February 3, 2009 at 12:22am

Thank you, Mark. I've never been able to get Google Earth to work on my computer so that is why I can't quite get the detail you talk about. Yes, she does work at PSD. She told me it was just outside the gate, so I was thinking she works off the base. My husband used to work at the nuclear plant Savannah River Site in South Carolina. We used to tease him about being the family night light!!! I guess you get stuff like that also?!!
Anna

Comment by Mark on February 2, 2009 at 11:56pm

Google Earth is awesome, isn't it? I love playing around with that, especially the way you can tilt it and fly through some of the areas. It's a good way to check out how spectacular the mountain passes in WA are - especially the North Cascades highway that goes through North Cascades Natl Park from east to west. You would probably also like walking downtown Poulsbo, and getting lunch around there - it's across Liberty Bay from Keyport. Anna, yes - they're all together kinda/sorta. The Shipyard is the largest in terms of personnel, then Bangor, NS Bremerton and Keyport is the smallest. If Catherine says the southern part of her base is subs, she is probably talking about the "dead fleet" in the Shipyard, near where it turns into the Naval Station. The "dead fleet" is a bunch of decommissioned subs and surface ships. Who knows what will be done with the surface ships, but the subs are awaiting recycling where the reactor compartment (fuel has been removed from reactors) will be separated from the rest of the boat and sealed for disposal at Hanford in eastern WA. The non-nuclear parts of the subs have all the hazardous materials removed, and the hull sections are cut up and sold for recycling. It sounds like she is working at the Personnel Support Detachment on what used to be known as the Bremerton Naval Station. I live about one mile due north, and work in the Shipyard about a mile due east of her work place. The Shipyard and Naval Station are neighbors of the city of Bremerton, and have a very cooperative relationship. The Shipyard is by far the largest employer in Kitsap County with about 10,000 employees. In WWII, the Shipyard's workforce numbered over 40,000. We do all of the nuclear work on carriers and subs located on the West Coast, including Everett, WA and down in San Diego.

Comment by Anna on February 2, 2009 at 10:56pm

Mark,
Thanks for trying to educate me. I only have an outdated Streets and Trips to look up the WA area. It shows a Bangor Naval Reservation and the city of Bangor within it. So all 4 of those bases are part of that? I know Catherine told me the southern part of her base was Submarines. Is Bremerton also part of that same installation? Does the whole base go by the name Kitsap?
I'm so glad I have this group to help me understand where my daughter is and what is around her!!! I'd like to know that if she ever had a problem I could call on you guys to be a "mom" or "dad" for her.
Anna

Comment by Mark on February 2, 2009 at 9:50pm

Anna,
Naval Base Kitsap comprises four installations that were administratively separate until a couple of years ago. The Bangor Submarine Base and Keyport Undersea Warfare Center are neighbors about ten miles north of Naval Station Bremerton and it's neighbor Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Most of the active duty Navy personnel are at either Bangor, or the Naval Station in Bremerton, unless they are attached to a ship in drydock at the Shipyard. Bangor is very different from the others, being much larger physically and mostly forested except for the waterfront area, and a number of clusters of buildings.

Comment by Anna on February 2, 2009 at 9:09pm

Marie, how is your daughter doing - is she all settled? Does she like Bangor?
Is Bangor a separate base from Kitsap where Catherine is or is it all one and the same?
Anna

Comment by Anna on February 2, 2009 at 8:54pm

Welcome Diane,
I live in Ohio but I have a daughter who has been in your great state of Washington since early November. She's in Kitsap.
There is also a Mom's of Daughters group - have you checked them out?
Anna

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