Hi! The new adoption for Molly's Adopt A Sailor was announced today in the Discussion Forum on the Molly's page. We hope you will help us send some love from home to these sailors. Pat

Hi,You are now a member of "MAS We Ship Love." You now have access to the addresses for  the adoptions for "Molly's Adopt A Sailor." Please check out our group. The Feb. adoption will be announced tomorrow!

BTW, my sailor is a Nuke, too! He is currently on a sub based in San Diego.

Thanks for joining us and if you have any questions, just send me a message. Pat

ATT is Apprentice Technical Training. I was given info awhile back that indicated that those in the Nuclear Field (NF) (ET, EM, MM) have ATT at GL following PIR, but by checking in the NUKE moms group, that is incorrect and they do fly out the day after PIR.  Thanks for bringing this error to my attention.  I will let MOMof5 know of my error. Take care and blessings to you and yours.

My son also is ship 14 div 152. Have not found much on here yet for that division, no private group formed yet. I am so glad I finally found another mom in this group.

Elias is a youngster :) He'll actually be turning 19 during BC. But he didn't want to go to a 4 year school without a direction for study so he figured he'd join the Navy...see what interested him..and then let the Navy pay for his bachelors and beyond ;)  Sometimes I think he misses his friends who have gone the 'traditional college' route but I think he made the right decision.So I can totally understand where your son is coming from. College debt is horrible!!

Don't remind me..3 months is going to fly by! I have co-teachers here that have their sons leaving for deployment now. We're all a puddle of tears whenever we think about our 'babies' leaving! lol

Hi Lighthouselady,

Elias is a Nuke too. He's going in as a E3 because he's an Eagle Scout. The RDC in charge of the nukes called Elias the other day to check up on him and discuss some of his options when he gets to Great Lakes. Elias signed in May of 2012 but was still in high school so he couldn't leave right away..and he has braces, which are coming off tomorrow :) Just 3 more pounds and he'll be at weight but he wants to drop extra so he has room to be 'naughty' and not get in trouble for gaining.

I'm glad he's not leaving before the holidays, at least we have one last season to be all together because who knows after this when he'll get leave to come home.

HI Lighthouselady. I saw that your son was leaving on Feb. 19th too!  Where in Eastern Iowa are you? We drive through Iowa a lot on our way to my husband's stomping grounds in Nebraska. And I student taught on the western side of WI so I am very familiar with the Dubuque area :) Love that I'm meeting other mom's who will be giving their children to our country's service at the same time as I am.