NUKE moms

Agreed!! I enjoy watching the snow falling and blowing but am happy to stay inside! We do not have the accumulation like your kids have. And then I talked to my DIL, their winter weather is done (VA), it was 70' she said!

Here in NE we received no snow. It missed us. However, the frigid weather is nuts. I woke up to 7* today. BRRRRR I'd rather have a little warmer weather with snow. I'm OK with snow. My son in TX was complaining about the cold weather they had. It was in the 60's. Good grief.

Nancy Jo - That is funny!! 60' cold!! - We are not as cold as you are, but we do have the snow, although the sun is shining today, so I need to get busy on my daylight projects. My computer says it is 19' so still very cold, despite the sun. 

Well that's just too cold for me lol!  We're at 53* and it feels like 49* because we still have wind.  But, the sun is shining!  And we are warming up to the mid to upper 70's by next week and as of right now Friday is showing 82*

Gotta love SoCal!

I’m chuckling to myself regarding the comments on cold temperatures.  Current temp in northern Wisconsin is 3*.  We had -15 on Thursday when I got up for the day.  Thankful for the sunny days.  It helps me block out what the temperature is outdoors.  Even though I take my outdoor walks each day, I never get use to it.  My neighbors think I’m crazy, but I can’t stay indoors all day.  I need the fresh air.

Have a great weekend everyone

Mass here and we have over 1.5" of slush/ice coming out of the sky. Its warm now but the temp is going down.  Lots of freezing going on from this morning. This afternoon is going to be crazy - sliding we go!!!

momc - I hope you are enjoying your daily walks!! I won't join you, but I really should. I just don't do well in the cold. 

Pizanche - The cold & weather headed from our direction up north. I hope things don't get too bad for you all and it warm up again soon. 

Tulip - Wow!! Sounds like you all had an ice storm like we experienced last year. 

When my son was stationed in Pearl, one of his shipmates went home to northern Minnesota on Christmas leave. The temperature difference was right around 100 degrees.

Just booked my flight/hotel for my sons A school graduation!!  I am very excited to have a good thing happen. I will miss his birthday because it's right after - but I will make the most of seeing him.  He wants to be a tourist. 

Woohoo Pizanche!  You'll definitely enjoy Charleston, I know we had a great time when we visited.  Be sure to look at the "Sightseeing in Charleston" discussion up above for some fun things to see and do.

Tulip - wow!  That's crazy - I sure hope power has been restored.  I can't even imagine it being that cold and no power.

Thank you! I will do that.

Pizanche while we were there we went to see the Angel Tree, then because the Deep Water Winery was so close we went there and then visit the only tea plantation in the U.S. I enjoy both wine and tea so it was very interesting. My son couldn't be off those days but he enjoyed the Ghost tours and Patriots Point and the Aquarium. Have a blast, I went my daughter and had so much fun. While we were that close we went to Savannah and did some sightseeing there too!

Tulip - I hope things are warming up for you all, most of the snow is melted on our roads which is nice.

WearsLargeHats - Wow! That is a huge temperature difference. We have had large swings just in one day in our state but not that large!

Pizanche - Have a wonderful time!! We also went to the Tea Plantation, the beach, Angel Tree, visited some of the Plantations, ate in downtown Charleston. I am sure your sailor is going to have a lot of fun being your guide. 

ProudofK - everything good your way?  Saw your town on the news tonight about a shooting in a grocery store..sending prayers your way.

ProudofK - Also, thinking about you! I shopped at that store many, many times. Thinking about my friends that still live there as well. 

Tulip, I am glad! It took our area a long time to just recover from the cleanup. Listening to the trees breaking last year, was just heart breaking for me. They still show their damage all around. 

B’sNukeMom and Chipmunk - thanks for checking in. Yes I’m completely fine. That store is just far enough away that it is not where I routinely shop although I do go there now and then - thankfully did not go there Monday. It wasn’t a good feeling though when I was running an errand Monday in my car and had the radio on and when the the top of the hour National news came on and the very first story was about a shooting in a store 10 minutes away. 

WearsLargeHats - you mentioned Minnesota so I just have to chime in and confirm that it can indeed get very very cold there. I grew up in northern Minnesota and can remember many a time that the coldest spot in the nation was about 2 hours from where I grew up. Also I remember -80 windchills. So I definitely feel for any of you that have been having the nasty winter weather this last week. 

ProudofK - glad to hear you are alright....scary when it's so close to home.

We've got a heatwave here in SoCal - supposed to be 85 today. The Super Bowl is about an hour away from me - they say it's going to be the warmest Super Bowl on record lol.

Good Morning Everyone!!

B'sNukeMom - I like our Snoopy post today, I am going to share it with others. 

For those of you headed to graduations - May you have safe travels, may you get lots of pictures, and lots of hugs!!

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Last minute question for prototyoe graduation. My son says he has a pass for usbor we can ride with him sonwe assume that os for parking. Does anyone know if we need to get tickets to actually get on the Yorktown? He has the third ceremony today so bonus not getting up at the crack of dawn but may be crowded. Thanks for any help!

Nevermind - nothing needed!

4kidsforfun - Sorry, I wasn't on earlier!  No, you should be able to go up at the window and tell them, or your sailor should be with you. They took photos before going on the ship. 

Enjoy your time!!

4kidsforfun - hopefully you are at your graduation now.  And yes, be sure to get your picture when you first walk up!  BZ to your son!

Thanks Chipmunk and B'sNukeMoM - we got onto the Yorktown just fine. There was a guy that let us go around the regular path (which had us skip the souvenir photo but since our son wasn't with us at that point that was ok!) 

The graduation was great and it was fun to be on the carrier for it. The sailors were all smiles and we got to meet another "navyformoms" family, Maggie. Her son was roommates with mine and they are headed to the same ship which I love. 

Now enjoying having him home for a bit before they head to Virginia. I'm trying not to get too used to having him here!

Now that he is all the way through Nuke school I can say it without jinxing him - he somehow managed to go to bootcamp during covid and made it all the way through with no quarantines! His entire bootcamp class was gone (mostly quarantine set backs) by the time he got to power school.

4kidsforfun - so glad you had a nice time and yes, enjoy his time at home!  That is amazing that he never got caught in the ring of fire and had any covid setbacks.....

Canuka - How awesome!!  Are you able to get on base when your sailor is coming home, or do you have to watch from elsewhere? Just curious, as deployment comes closer and closer for my son. 

Blue Angel fly over.

4kidsforfun - I am glad you had such a wonderful time at graduation. I am so happy that they have opened things back up for the ceremony to take place there. We were warmly welcomed by the staff, which was nice. 

Enjoy your time with your sailor, when you get a chance check your profile, I left you a message. 

Canuka - Beautiful picture - you did have a great vantage point! Thank you for sharing. I know that every command is going to be different, but I also thought you had to have gate access, so it is nice to know that occasionally they will give passes as they did at NNPTC graduations, depending on the circumstances.

We live halfway across the country from my son's port so down the road when the time will come for his ship to have a homecoming, I don't know if we will be able to travel to see him or not. I do know that a lot of the families would go to one of the beaches and watch when they were coming back from their shorter underways. 

For our newer members - Nukes are usually one of the last ones off the ship when they come back into port. Mine was generally able to call me but did not leave until after most of the rest of the crew. His ship was not on a long deployment but was still out to sea for a large portion of 2020 - 2021 on multiple shorter underways, in and out of port. No fancy fan fair or fly overs, but most of the parents really appreciated the pictures posted on our private FB page by the wives who would take their children to the beach to see the ship coming home. 

Northwoodsmom - Do you have any update on your sailor and his time in DTP? Be sure to add a comment or so to our discussion above for future reference. 

Canuka - I had forgotten that our sons are on the same ship. It was very awesome to watch it come in on the San Diego web cam yesterday but not quite as exciting as our son actually was not on the ship at the time (he was on the dock though). Our son (along with a few others) was actually flown off the ship about a month ago and back to San Diego to be part of an ATP (Advance Planning Team). He also had his leave time and was home a couple weeks ago. So it was a little different watching his ship come in - but it’s still his ship so it was still cool and I could imagine how exciting it was for everyone - sailors and family alike. 
our son did say it was a very cool experience flying off the ship. And it was oh so nice to have him home. So Canuka I know you will very much be enjoying having your son close by after the long months that they have been out to sea. I will tell you the first month was the worst for us because for some reason our sons account was messed up which meant he couldn’t access his email and his was about a month before he had it straightened out - it almost felt like he was on a sub. But after that we had emails fairly regularly. 

Welcome home to the USS Vinson!  So happy for you to have your sailors home after this long deployment.

Canuka - the Blue Angel flyover was amazing!  I saw video posted in some other groups on FB and it gave me chills.  Watching from the USS Midway would be pretty cool!

Good Morning Everyone!

Welcome to any new members that we have!! 

Question - For those of you who have gone through surface deployments - Any information on how long it usually takes for a letter to get to your sailor. Did you send letters as often or as much as you did when they were in bootcamp? Was it better to communicate with them via their ship email? Did your sailors receive mail packages that you might have sent? 

Thank you for any thoughts, I am curious across the fleet how well communication works, at least getting encouraging messages to our sailors. 

I don't think NNPTC will be affected much by the winter weather coming but for those of you that will, may you ride this one out smoothly. 

Chipmunk we had one package take over two months to get there and another package get there in about three weeks so who knows we actually thought the first package was lost. Letters did seem to get there a little quicker, but once he had his account set up email actually worked pretty well to communicate. They actually had Wi-Fi on the ship and some people had luck in calling, our son only was able to call us once using that, that happened to be on Thanksgiving day so it was pretty cool. Hope that helps. 

Hello Ladies, well after 4+ months at DTP my son has been told what his new rate will be. He will now be a Aviation Electronic Technician. They still haven't told him where he will be headed but did say he wouldn't have to go to AET school because he had already learnt the electronic part during A and Power School. They did mention he would be a part of a squadron ( whatever that means). I am just so happy to hear he got his first choice out of the five he had chose and he is ready to be moving on. Still waiting to hear where he will be going. He said that DTP is really full right now so I am sure they will want to start moving them quickly to make more room. 

I am not that familiar with his new job but he told me he would be working on the guidance systems, and other electronic devices on jets and helicopters to keep them operational. He could be in a hanger, on a carrier or even doing work in flight. 

Sometimes I think the less I know the less I worry. It all sounds nerve wracking to me. He originally put in for a sub but planes and helicopters can't land on them so I will count it as a Blessing for now. 

Thank you for all your patience with me as I was going through this transition, God Bless all of you!

Northwoodsmom - well I don't know anything about that rate but here's the link to the group:

Aviation Electronics Tech - AE

Hopefully you can glean some info from there.

And I'm glad that he got his first choice - I'm sure he'll do great things there!  His patience has paid off.....good luck to him in this new endeavor. 

And of course, please stick around as you are a wealth of info for others ;-D