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I worry about all the stuff in the news with ISIS, Ebola, Chicago violence, etc... How safe is my son? Are they allowed to go off base alone or do they have to go in groups?
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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They are always required to have liberty buddies, and have a curfew most of the time.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-la...
Honestly, they are in more danger from underage drinking or not wearing their seat belts. Chicago violence is not in the neighborhoods where visitors go, so unless he's wandering around looking for drugs, the City is fairly safe.
Ebola is not even a remote concern, be worried about the flu, that takes more lives annually (and they get mandatory immunizations). ISIS? There are better targets than student sailors. Want to freak out? Family members are easier pickings than active duty sailors. Your son is far safer than you are. And you are pretty darn safe.
Deep breath. Sometimes you just need to turn the news off.
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Permalink Reply by jrw105 on
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Yes, I know. Lol, I just recently retired, so trying to stay busy and away from all that. Thanks for the reply and the link, also.
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Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
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A little history lesson, the flu epidemic of 1918....
In 1918, Navy and Marine patients totaling 121,225 were admitted at Navy medical facilities with influenza. Of these patients, 4,158 died of the virus, and sick patients spent over one million sick days in Navy facilities worldwide. That was 1% of the service dead and more than the number killed in action during WWI. Great Lakes had more than 900 deaths, nearly 500 in just one late September week.
Navy nurse Josie Brown, who served at Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois in 1918, later described what happened there and in many hospitals around the country:
The morgues were packed almost to the ceiling with bodies stacked one on top of another. The morticians worked day and night. You could never turn around without seeing a big red truck loaded with caskets for the train station so bodies could be sent home.
We didn’t have the time to treat them. We didn’t take temperatures; we didn’t even have time to take blood pressure.We would give them a little hot whisky toddy; that’s about all we had time to do.Nasty stuff. Get a flu shot.
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