Cryptology ~ CTI ~ CTM ~ CTN ~ CTR ~ CTT ~ CWT Corry Station Pensacola Florida and Monterey California

navymom3-I did get my tickets through Hawaiian airlines. Advise...check back daily as the prices change often.

There is also an Oahu group that seems pretty tight. They have good advise on places to visit. I am making my list. 

Betsy, I hope your son ends up in Hawaii. We will have been on this whole journey together.

There were 8 Navy students in my daughters class and 5 went to Hawaii and the others went to Ft Meade.

Great thanks for the advice!!  Or maybe have him bring his home to carry a few more things back with him that way. I would not think he needs a lot.

CTmom - Sorry about not getting back sooner.  I had a hacker get into my website and I been playing "Damage Control". 

Anyways., Staff sea duty means your part of the Admirals Staff.  However, in Japan (COMSEVENTHFLT) it's out of Yokosuka, not Okinawa.  It's aboard the USS BlueRidge.  Staff duty is awesome.  I had it out of Gaeta Italy (COMSIXTHFLT).  When your staff, your not part of ship's company so you don't have to do the crappy things.   

Not that I doubt you Craig, but why would he say Okinawa if it's yokosuka? Secondly isn't the George Washington there too. Is there a possibility could be on  that ship?  Everyone I Know that's had kids stationed there hated it. Any opionion?

One good thing with this is that both my boys will be at  Corry the same time. One for C school the other A. Well, this could be good and bad..ya know.

CTmom - You got me on that one.  We use to have a CT base in Okinawa called NSGA Hanza, however, it closed in 1998.  I don't beleive they ever replaced it. 

Okinawa totally sucks.  It is not really Japan.  The Japanese don't even consider it Japan.  Our ships use to pull in at "White Beach", and let me tell you there was nothing there.  He doesn't happen to be going to an aircrew would he?  The only thing I'm thinking is if he goes to a Joint facility at Kadena AFB.  That would be the only thing I could think of.

Well, I will be off this site for about 12 days. I will be traveling to the Czech Republic and to Auschwitz (now called Oświęcim) Poland. I will have my laptop, but I highly doubt I will be logging in.

I thought this would be a cool place to visit too, so I will be going there too...

Have a great trip Craig!

Navymom3- my son is at Corry and the mileage is 250 I think that they have to stay within.  He put in a request to come home for July 4th weekend- was approved, got his ticket, but now may not be able to - and I don't know why yet.   Hopefully it will still work out for him. He had to be a phase 3 though before he was able to ask for an out of bounds chit...which they gave him through an early request. i am not sure why he said he might not beable to come home- so am praying it all works out ok for him to still come home expecially since he already got his airline ticket and they are not cheap.

good luck with your sailor getting home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_LAGhbd_w&sns=fb

So proud of all the things my son is learning in the NAVY.  Ladies and Craig if you need a laugh just watch this video   That's my baby far left with limited watermelon drumming control LOL

Thank you here4kids.

clockard - I'm actually at my hotel in Prague.  I get back to the states on 6 July.  Luckily I have access to the internet here.  I'm actually quite surprised since Czech Republic is an old communist country that will celebrate it's end to Russian rule 20 year ago today (July 1st).   The American restaurants are having a BIG celebration on July 4th to celebrate it along with 4th of July.  So Hooter's Prague is where I'll be at.  Heck I'd be at Hooters anyways, but now I have a good reason...

I agree with sunshine, after Hooters, I'll crave watermelon too!  

Karen - Normally CTR's don't go to "C" school out of "A" school.  They send them to shore duty (or maybe the fleet) 1st.  But they are slowly letting the "A" schoolers attend more and more "C" schools.  

boiler - Yep, the schools almost always extend the contracts...

Well as most of you know, I am now in Prague Czech Republic...   I just left Auschwitz.  All I can say is wow!

 I've learned alot this past week.  I thought I knew a lot about Germany and its concentration camp, but have come to realize that I don't know crap.  I never knew they only tattooed people in Auschwitz, no other camp did it. The only reason they did was it was taking too long to photograph them.  The tattoo just made it quicker.  Near the end, they were getting too far behind again, and didn't even tattoo people, they just sent them straight to the gas chamber.   I never knew Auschwitz was just a mini concentration camp, it was really small.  It only had 1 gas chamber.  Birkenau which was 1000x worse than Auschwitz is about 3 miles from Auschwitz had four gas chambers.  Birkenau ran continuously, each of the four chambers killing 1500 people at a time.  Auschwitz was nothing compared to Birkenau.  I was originally going to post some of the pictures I took, but decided not to. You've all heard the story, but you really haven't.  Once you realize that the American version limited what the public could view in the 1940's (since they didn't want to offend the American people), they cut alot of the film out.  I actually saw the uncut raw French version.  Even though it was in French, the film showed it all.  Nothing was cut.They warn this at the entrance. Thank God, today our soceity can handle this stuff, and to me it's history that needs to reminded.  Yes, it's not for everyone, but to a history guy like me, it means a heck of alot...

 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

~Santayana

However, I will post these pictures.  It is in front of Oskar Schindler (from the movie Schindler's list) that I took in Krakow Poland, when you see the factory it is really small.  To think this guy saved 1100 to 1200 people (no one knows for sure), it's incredible.. What sucks if the Polish government wanted this to be a place that welcomed visitors.  They screwed it up by texturing the walls and painting it.  I wished they would have left it as it was during the 1940's, which all the building around it are.  I would have been alot better to me.  

sunshine - You are talking about a rating coin.  Yes, they are a really cool gift to give.  You may want to look at this post which I wrote about them, it will show you what a rating coin is and where to buy them.  

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir07012011/forum/topics/graduatio...

Hi there, I'm new this group and am looking for some information.  My son made it to phase 3 and I want to go and visit him next weekend.  Does anyone know of a hotel/motel close by Corry Station?  He got there on June 11 and got phased up very quickly.  We are very happy about that.  

So far, he is quite happy.  Just waiting to class up.  He is so hoping it will be next week.  Very interesting info on the C School.  We thought once he finished A-school that he would be able to move right on to C School.  Is it true that they have to stay at the top of the class to be able to do C School?  

Another question he/we are unclear about.  Is A-school for CTR's self paced?  Are there any classes with teachers?  If self paced, can you finish earlier than the 16 weeks?  I know I'm throwing a lot of questions out there, but I do appreciate any answers I get.  

My other son is in Goose Creek, SC (Nuke program).  Very intense, but he's very happy there.