NAS Jacksonville

Hi Gramza family....Wow...my son is in the same class as your son... My sailor says your sailor is cool!

Our son is 4th from the right, front row in that graduation picture of the fellas under the yellow plane. He's the one with the raised eyebrow! He's loving Jacksonville!

Okay Grannysandy....when your son gets back from SERE, please share his stories! I'm very curious about his experience there and how did things go for him in Maine. I thought they all went to SERE in California? (confusing) We heard, while they are at SERE, they have to "move out" of the barracks, and store their stuff...is that right?
What is the "new hanger?"in JAX
My son is in his second week of school in JAX, as an AW, non acoustic, same class as JIM GRAMZA's son. YOU on the other hand, seem to be way ahead of us and can answer questions! Yay!
Thanks so much...

Thanks, Jim. My son just joined one of the sqaudrons at NAS JAX. We flew out to assist with move in. Whew! I can't believe they do that at least every two years. We spent 10 days helping with hauling boxes and entertaining the grandkids. Hadn't been to that area of Florida before just Orlando, Pensacola, and the Miami/Keys area. Very nice, a little warm...and buggy...but nice.

I see there is a "dusty dog" in your group. That would be my son's squadron.

ok, I'll bite...what is a 'dusty dog???' The name of a squadron, or the type of Naval unit that is assigned a certain kind of task or what????
Or both? I tried to google it, and nothing appears either....hmmmm?

Thanks for the welcome aboard, dusty dog. And Storymom, I'm unfamiliar with all the OPSEC rules but I guess I can say we are affiliated with HS-7. I'm not a new Navy mom but I'm new the the N4M site. Our daughter did 4 and out from 90-94. Our son did NROTC, commissioned in 97. He has kicked around a bit and has landed with the Dusty Dogs for a while.

I've read through the one on the main page but that just left me thinking, "What can you post?" I would love to know what everyone's sailors do. But then I would need to know what mine does... and I never really know. Short answer, he flies. We see him once, maybe twice a year. He calls when he remembers to, emails occasionally. Mostly he works. Thank God he has a wonderful wife who keeps us in the loop. But for example, he was on a IA in Afghanistan for 6 months and I didn't know what he did there until I read a commendation he got. Back to my question... what can we post? What can we discuss? What can we ask?

Thanks for the tip.

Hi, My son took some awesome pictures of the funnel cloud right next to the base....he was in the Target store, and they started closing up the doors, and telling everybody to stay inside.... but my son ran out to take pictures! Very scary, but I guess it started out as a Water Spout, THEN became a funnel cloud as it passed over the land. Did some minor damage in certain areas. you can google it, and also see some footage on their local tv stations.
I'll see if i can download my son's photos....i grew up in Wisconsin, and this terrifies me, but my son was OH boy...gotta take a picture to send to MOM! Ha!

I guess this latest round of storms were pretty dramatic. I was following them on the New4Jax site. Got this email from my daughter-in-law..."The weather on Friday was dramatic for sure but we missed it in it's true glory because we were at Costco. We were leaving Costco and heading South on 95 at 4 pm. The sky in front of us was BLACK and the lighting bolts heading to the ground were every couple of seconds. I had never seen anything like it before. We were skirting around the edges as we started to hit the rain we turned and headed west across the Buckman bridge then south on the 17 towards home. We basically drove around it. It had obviously already come through Orange Park with limbs down and wet roads but we didn't get to see that." The last time she sent me a storm report she and the kids were in the pantry under the stairs in their house in Chesapeake, VA as the tornado tore through Suffolk. Before that we had a hurricane in Pensacola and tornadoes in Corpus. Boy, they Navy certainly picks places with interesting weather...

Our daughter experienced a tornado hitting the base while she was in Millington at A school in 1991. She said she would never forget the color of the sky, that weird green glow.

Here's what my son witnessed at the Target Store near the Base on Friday