Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

My daughter is stationed in the NN Shipyard.  She currently lives in Navy Housing, so he is trying to move there to be closer to her so they can get married and all that stuff.

Happy Friday everyone! I just saw this group listed--never thought to go to the All Groups listing to see what was there!
My son is stationed in Norfolk--he was on the Enterprise, which is now decommed. He and his wife are expecting their first child--my first grandchild--later this year. He has been reassigned to a helo squadron, so I am thinking he will still have deployments to deal with.
Nice to meet all of you :)

Welcome Carol.....this is a nice group !  Lots of great information and good people on here....Congratulations on first grandchild....we are expecting our first grandbaby too....due May 3rd  so exciting!  Take care  Alllie

Hi ShortCecky--yes--I do remember you from the Enterprise group--good to see you again too! My sailor and his wife live in Virginia Beach--they have a nice apt there and really like it--I dont know what the name of the complex is. I haven't been to visit them in their new place, yet, hopefully this summer. Wish I could help with the area's you are asking about, CLAMOM...not familiar, though.
We find out the baby's due date today--I can't wait to hear from them later this afternoon--my birthday is in November and we are thinking their due date will be sometime in November, too.
Beautiful spring weather here this weekend--we got lots of yardwork done and then had some good and much needed rain. Hope everyone is having a good Monday!

Good Morning,

Are there any good churches in Norfolk?  I would love to recommend a church to my son.  My daughter will be visiting him soon.   It may be nice.

The doctor doesn't normally make requirements that would interfere with someones leave. Just tell the doctor you're scheduled to be on leave from May 15th to whenever and schedule the follow up appointments around that.

Spent 26 years in the Navy and never had a doctor dictate when I had to attend medical appointments. They always left it up to me to make the appointments around my schedule.

It should be as simple as calling the clinic he has the appointment at and seeing if they have an earlier appointment. If the doctor needs 4 weeks to see if there are any changes with the injury then that may be an issue if you're trying to move this appointment earlier and only gives 2 weeks which might not be enough time for the injury to heal enough to reevaluate.

Switching appointment times normally isn't a problem if they have openings.

We attended First Baptist for years; it is a great church but is actually closer to Virginia Beach than Norfolk. We now attend Virginia Beach Community Chapel, which we love.  We went to services on the base in Norfolk when we lived on the Naval Station. Really good worship service, but very small congregation.

video r, my sailors go to Blessed Sacrament on Granby in Norfolk.  The Priest is great.

Clamom, my son is getting an apartment in The Pines of York.  It is about 15 minutes from NN. Friends of ours live in Yorktown and recommended them.  We will be helping him move in next weekend. He will be driving to Norfolk until the Enterprise is towed to NN.  His sister is transferring to FL and he had to move.  He is currently on Enterpise, Hi ShortBecky and Carol in FL!  My son is a Nuke and will be with the ship for another couple yrs, til it is towed to Washington state.  The nukes have to monitor the reactor.  Not such a pleasant ship with all the dismanteling going on.

Hi Theresa, thanks for the endorsement for Pines of York!  It is nice to know it is a good choice.  This is his first time living alone.  I hope he doesn't keep to himself too much.  He isn't very outgoing. He needs a couch if you know of any for sale!  We will be checking craigslist this weekend.

Theresa, thanks for the offer, I will let him know. My daughter said to go to a store called "The Dump" in Norfolk. She said they have lots of furniture at decent prices, open Fri, Sat. Sun so I guess we will go there this weekend as part of helping him move!  We may also check out a thrift store called "Second Time Around" if he can't find one there.  My daughter and her fiance got their couches there.

At the Dump not the thrift store!

Hi, you can also negotiate with the sales people at the Dump so don't take the listed price. Have a great day

My neighborhood is having its yearly yard sale, as well. It is usually really well stocked. Check out the Baycliff neighborhood in Virginia Beach off Mill Dam Road between Great Neck and First Colonial.  The sale is from 8-2 on Saturday.

Thanks to all for the furniture, yard sale, stores info. We are on a mission to get him one this weekend and we will have our truck along.

I am starting to look for houses for my Sailor and 3 other Sailors to rent when they return from deployment.  I am using a realtor to find the rental home and was told today that we probably wouldn't find a house that people would rent to 4 single Sailors.  I just about fell out of my chair.....

singingbird,

Sure you can send it to him. The problem with the ships store is that it is very small and limited to what they have. If they did carry it at one time they very well could be out of it as the store runs out of things often. I remember the things in the ships store were more for surviving life aboard ship and I don't know if sunscreen was something they carried or not.

If he needs it for his job he could talk to medical and see if they have some they can give him or maybe the ship's safety office.

I've not tried it yet but it may be cheaper to buy/send him stuff from amazon.com especially if you have a prime account with them.

Hey just some good info I came across ; my husband brought my son's car to what they call the Hobby Lobby on the base at Norfolk. Not only to they have tools a sailor can use to work on his/her own car, but they also do maintenance and repairs for you for a reasonable rate! Convenient and less expensive. :)

I was impressed too because they looked at my son's squeaky brakes and said they were fine, just needed to be cleaned.  We would have believed them and paid the $ if they said we needed a new brake job.

Anyone else here have a son/daughter that is driving a vehicle in Norfolk that is registered to you (the parents) in another state?

My son is driving my vehicle and the website says it needs to be registered in Virginia but since it will eventually come back to me I don't want to register it in Virginia since I live in Arizona. If the vehicle was in his name it wouldn't be an issue but it is in my name.

Anyone have experience with this? Do they enforce this for military folks in the area?

My son had his car there for over a year until deployment.  It was in his name but he kept it registered in Texas.  I know they want you to register in VA, but he didn't want to.  The car is back in Texas now.  We just paid the registration and mailed him the sticker for his car.

Dad, to get base decals for the car from the Pass and ID office, he'll need a notarized letter from the vehicle's owner giving him permission to drive the car along with proof of registration and insurance.  Pass and ID office is at 9040 Hampton Blvd Bldg, 757-322-2976.

Singingbird, just remember you can't send some things such as aerosols, and put the sunscreen in a ziplock bag :)  This is a good group for info and inspiration too!  Care Package Ideas

Tumbleweed, that's good to know!  My son had some work done at the shop at Little Creek, and had less than great results - in fact another shop said one aspect he was charged for wasn't done at all :(

Thanks all, I just called the DMV office and she told me their website is confusing on this issue. As long as I'm not in Virginia also then my son can drive my vehicle with an active duty id card.

Thanks everyone for the information.

Gwen B, at the time the car and my son were still in VA. 

Our sailor's car is in his name and it has Oklahoma plates (where his dad lives).  He will be attached to the Enterprise (we've been told) another two years and he will continue to keep Oklahoma tags.  This isn't a problem re: inspection because Oklahoma did away with inspections many years ago.  My DH and I live in the Dallas, Texas area so I'm not sure how the inspection would be handled for vehicles title/tagged in Texas (that has a strict inspection policy) but stationed in VA.

I agree with Dad of Sailor ~ I LOVE Amazon for sending things to my sailor, especially when the Enterprise was deployed last year.  I have a Prime account and it was easier, and with free shipping (with Prime), to have Amazon ship the items to Blake directly than to have them shipped to me and I in turn shipped them out to Blake.  I sent single serve "buckets" of Ravioli, Raman noodles, toothpaste, deodorant, books, trail mix, battery operated fan and batteries, Nutella, etc. via Amazon.

Gina

RE: Cars, registrations, etc.

Just a headsup.  My son kept his home address in FL as his permanent address with the Navy.  So of course, kept license, car registration, etc in FL.  When he received a traffic ticket in VA, uh oh.  He found out that Florida is a state that does not allow their drivers to go to traffic school, etc to get points off when the ticket was issued in another state.  There is no way to get points off....the only hope is to try and get the ticket dismissed.

So if your sailor is debating whether to change residency to his duty station state...or....keep it in his/her home state, this may be one factor to consider, depending on how his/her state handles things like this.

soonergirl,

How long did it take on average for him to receive the stuff you sent him from amazon?

diannep - thanks, just as helpful here as you are in the bootcamp group.

Hi...about the car registration etc....our sailor just switched his registration to VA...hope that wasn't a mistake..car was registered to my husband but in NY and NY requires inspections  car isn't here so we had him register it in his name in VA and get his own insurance.  Everything is so confusing....but it wasn't convenient for him to drive it back here for inspection...

Help needed

My daughter is moving SAT/Sun  may 4  ALL of her help baled on her she needs to be out by tue 7 th so she can go to FL  please we need help

she is a single mom with 2 kids this is a quick move less then 30 days so the navy could not move her , also she just came from a 2 week out to sea ( Bush) please if ANY one can come over to help  . she is off of little creek norfolk VA  , I drove drove down from ohio to help please give me a call 614- 390 1722

we need some guys to help move some big stuff

Gwen:  Tell him to drive safely!  :-)

Dad of Sailor:  Thanks for the kind words! 

My son's permanent residence is not Virginia.  He purchased and registered his car in VA, and because of his active military status is exempt from the annual registration renewal fee and personal property tax, just has to present his LES each year. Military local vehicle registration exemption  Also this VA DMV FAQs

Marcy, thanks so much for this info!

They have to wear uniforms at all times while deployed on a ship. They will wear civies when they pull into liberty ports and go on liberty. They can take them but their space is very limited. My son only took a few civies and he still says he "brought way too much" because he's so limited on space.

That is so neat, love it!!

Hope they didn't make them come in to work today just to take that picture. Hope their Chain of Command was smart enough to do this during the week.

Neat picture...

Well Dad Of A Sailor  I appear to be following you. Twin 1 just got orders today for Norfolk on a destroyer.  He wanted Italy but two others in his class got that.  He was hopeful as he finishes third in his class. 

CO-TwinSalorsMom,

Congrats to your son and welcome to the Norfolk group. My son also wanted Naples Italy but they gave that to a girl in his class. He got the Bush in Norfolk.

As far as being at sea, it varies depending on what they are doing. Work ups (underway periods prior to a deployment) are normally 2-4 weeks at a time then in port a couple weeks and back out. Deployments last 6-10 months. Your son being on a Destroyer may be shorter periods as it is easier for a Destroyer to get in and out of port than it is a Carrier.

Please let me know if you have any questions, I've been doing a lot of searching for my son as they don't get a lot of information when they arrive in Norfolk. Also, the base isn't setup very well for Sailors who live on the ship and don't have transportation. My son wasn't planning on getting a car but he found in short order that he couldn't make it in Norfolk without a car so I shipped his car to him.