Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

Cshore and Sharon...My son graduated boot camp last January and has been at Norfolk since last April.  His "C" School was in San Antonio.  He is a MA and does shore patrol.  This was his first time away from home and he's doing great!  It has helped that home is only 3 hours away and so he gets to come home often when he has 3 day weekends.  He's very family and Church oriented and leaving all his friends behind was really tough on him!  He realizes that his next billet will probably be overseas but he feels like he is better ready for it now.  He lived in housing on base the first few months he was there but then found out about housing near Camp Allen (very small Marine base) that was really nice.  It's a two bedroom apartment with each bedroom having a bath.  Has a fully furnished living room and kitchen along with washer and dryer. He even picked his roommate.  Does not cost him anything extra from his pay. At Thanksgiving, we stayed at Navy Lodge and I cooked Thanksgiving meal at his place.  I'm sure your Sailors will do fine!  Let me know if you have any questions.

cshore, is she in the barracks here in norfolk?  when my daughter lived in the baracks she had a microwave and a full size fridge in the room.  she was there for maternity until she got her own place.

welcome!

carol

Grasshopper- Wow, what an experience with the barracks?! I'm glad he was able to get into the apartments out in town. For those with sailors still in the barracks, I would suggest that they get their chain of command involved with issues like that. It may be the barracks inspecting them, but you would be surprised how quickly their attitudes change when they have to explain these "hits" to the Command Master Chief. I know some of the newer sailors are sometimes a little intimidated, and don't want to make waves, but that is what their chain of command is there for. I would have them start by talking to their LPO. This person is usually a First Class Petty Officer. They will usually either try to get the problem resolved, or take it to the Chief if they feel it needs to go that far. Depending on the problem, it may or may not need to go further up the chain. They usually try to resolve problems at the lowest level possible, but they will send it all the way to the CO if that's what it takes to get their sailors taken care of. 

Hi

Need advice. When you send a package to you sailor's FPO address and the ship is underway are they pretty good with getting packages to them? I know I hear allot about sending care packeges when they are on deplyment and have not heard much negative. I need to send my son a new DVD player and some other things. I wanted him to get a PO Box but I don't think he wants to do that in case it does not get there before he leaves.

What should I do?

hi everyone. my name is barb and my daughter is a sailor at Norfolk presently. thought this would be a good group to join to keep up on the news. hope all is well with everyone talk later.

barb

Anyone who has Facebook, Can you do this little girl a favor?  Her Daddy is deployed.  If she wins the cutest kid contest, he will get a package of her pictures sent to him.  Thank you all for voting!!!!!!  BTW....These are personal friends of mine, too.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Suzanne-Bobosky-Photography/918828...

Here's her picture:

Curious about everything there is to know about but if I don't respond it's not that I am ingoring you, I just don't have easy access to the internet.

Hi Norfork families, I have a question,is there a place on base where the sailors can get help with there tax return? Thanks

ok donna, i have to ask this question.  you said your son is driving up to norfolk (i assume from your house in ga) where he will be staying while his sub is refueling.  how long does it take to refuel a sub?

carol

Hi ladies.. my name is Dawn, and my son will be done with A school this week.. and go out to Virginia next friday..he will be on The Enterprise.. and he says they will fly him out to the ship.. as it is out to sea.. so glad I found this site !! is there anywhere we can go to see where the ship is heading ?? Thank You So Much for any info !!!

Dillndrewsmom- this article from navy.mil might interest you:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=58633

My husband met his ship on his first deployment. He found out where they were when he went to the base and they got him his plane ticket. Even via military email, they will not be able to email specific dates/locations because navy email is never considered to be 100% secure. The way it worked for my husband was his XO emailed him, asked gave him a range of dates and said be ready to go on these dates, and gave him the name and info of the person he needed to get in touch with on base to set up his travel. He went in, they got his plane ticket set up, and three days later, he was heading for the other side of the world with another one of his new shipmates. They do their best to send people together when they can, which I know was a big comfort to me!!