Thanks Tim for the encouraging words, I'm excited to be a Navy Dad, and even more excited to share the experience with all the families who have sacrificed themselves and their children to defend our great country. I will check the site often and contribute when I can. Good luck and Healthy New Year to you and your family...

Tim,

TNX for welcome note. I look forward to the site. My son was commissioned 4 1/2 years ago.....this is his first deployment - he flies the MH-60R, on the Abraham Lincoln.

Tim, thanks for the warm welcome and information. Looking through the Navy Dads site has already given me more information than I expected to know at this point.  But I know there is so much more and I will continue to explore as I have time.  Hopefully, we will hear from our sailor soon and be able to communicate with him through letters.  If I do have a question, I will be sure to put it out here on the site or on Facebook.  I am beginning to learn a bit of the Navy lingo here, so Bravo Zulu to you and the rest of the Admins doing this tremendous service.

John

Thanks Tim. I have received many words of encouragement since logging on today. We are all so proud of Jason here. It will be so good to see him.

Mark

My primary responsibilities revolve around social media- Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, etc. Our team is always on the look-out for people with questions regarding the Navy. We try to answer to the best of our ability and link them back to a page that can tell them more and give them more detailed information. Our goal is to get out there help as many potential Sailors as we can!

I can only imagine how proud you are of your sons for serving their country. Thank them for me and let them know that the Navy is truly grateful for their dedication.

Thank you Tim! I really appreciate the note. I am very proud of my daughters decision and her pick for Hospital Corpsman! I also have a Marine son deployed in Afghanistan. Please keep both of them in your thoughts.

Len

Thanks Tim,

Bob

Thanks very much, Tim!  I'm at work right now and have not focused on the site.  I am really excited about being in touch with people from all over with sons in the navy.  I will and more later.

John

Thank you Tim, I look forward to using navydads to fill-in all the blanks. I was not in the military so this is all new.

Thank you Tim for the welcome.  you are right, a lot amount of great info here. Glad to be on board.

Thans again.

Hello Sir, Thanks for the comments.  As my daughter gets closer to her bootcamp time I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions.  Thanks again.

Joe Lenahan

Thank you Tim, you message is much appreciated. My son Mike has been in for a little over two years now. He is an IS on the George Washington, which made a hasty exit from Japan a few days ago due to the reactor in the north. So far he is enjoying his time in and enjoys the ports of call (who wouldn't?) So I hope his attitude remains the same and he makes a career of it. Time will tell. Once again, thank you and take care,

                                                               Jim

Thanks for the welcome and for such a great website. It was hard letting him go and not knowing. This sight has a lot of info and I can sort of track what he is doing. The videos are somewhat cute. I have seen movies and would believe that they are a little harder on them than portrayed in videos (not that that is a bad thing) I am proud of his decision and I know he will make it and be a better man for it. His recruiter has signed him up as a logistics specialist. Didn't know what that entails and I dont think he knew but thanks to your sight I know what they do and I think I know where he is going for A school now. Again thanks. Godspeed to ALL OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. Q. Who does the laundry? How does it get done? Cant see a lot of sailors standing outside the laundromat with a handful of quarters.

Tim, thank you so much for what you and the others do to make this site what it is. Brian will be graduating soon Apr. the 8th. and we can't wait to see him again.  I am very proud of what Brian is doing in following in his families footsteps being in the military. His grandfather, my dad was a DI in the Marines and his uncle was in the Navy both during WW2. I was in the Army and the Air Force , and my brother was in the Naval Reserve also during the Vietnam conflict.

                                                   Our servicemen, past and present have made the decision to defend and fight for their country. We  need to aknowledge the sacrifices they have made  and remember them all. I was in a grocery store the other day and I was wearing my Navy hat a friend had given me, which I wear often. An older man and his wife were  rolling a cart down the aisle, when he suddenly stopped in front of me.  He was wearing a Navy hat, an old one with the name of the ship he served on. He looked me in the eyes and brought his hand up and saluted me. Having been in the military without thinking I also saluted him and told him thank you. This was a very brief, but moving experience for both of us. Just wanted to share how little things can make a big difference in someone's life.

                                      Tim Bravo Zulu and keep in touch

Proud Navy Dad Van

Tim, my son Brian is going through battlestations as I am posting this comment. I know he will be alright, but just in case please say a prayer for him and the other recruits in his division 921. We can't wait to hear from him again and of course to be there to see him graduate.

Thanks, keep in touch

Proud Navy Dad Van

Co-Admin TIM,

I thank you for the welcoming msg. I'm not too sure of the protocol here so I thought I'd answer you first. I just learned of this site yesterday when I googled in OCS class 09-11. Kristin, my daughter is in this class scheduled for 4/22 grad. I only learn of their doings in encrpted Navy jargon and rarely understand it all. I DO know she's in Candio phase and is signing off as C/Lt Greene. I didn't know they had a rate in OCS.

My son, Adam, is a Riverine out of Little Creek, VA recently got a new rating IS from original enlistment of QM. There wasn't much call for that rating in the riverines, thus the change after  intel schools A & C. His rate is recently 1PO. We haven't heard from him in a few weeks so don't know if deployed. If so, it will be his 3rd. Got to go, company at the door.

Kevin Greene

Tim,

I know what an ET is and SWCC since my son Adam went thru BUDS up to Hell Wk before injury caused him to DOR. They then offered him the Riverines and now he's happy (and too old for a 2nd try @ BUDS: he's 30). He's never been on a ship unless you call their inland jet boats a ship. First deploy was as pilot but the next time he elected to be part of the landing squad each boat has. Three prior years at the usafa (includes prep school) gives him 9 yrs in now. Has reenlisted for 6 more so it looks like a lifer to me.

Kris on the other hand is in OCS and will outrank him after graduation with only 13 wks in service. Some turn of events, eh?

Our kids came late in life; I'll be 70 in July but they keep me young. I don't know much about what officers are trained in at OCS. Do they have a specialty? I know Kris is scheduled for SWARS right after grad in Newport but duration is unknown. I understand a CG-56 is in her future tho'. Can you, or anyone, fill me in on what to expect? By the way, we are in the mtns of New Mexico about as far from the sea as you can get. I hope to get to Norfolk this summer by motorcycle if either of them are around then. It'll be my 4th trip in as many years in a loop including New England where my older brother resides.

Regards, Kevin

Thanks Tim,

I checked out  some of the links.The video for the boot camp was very informative.I'll be sure to check more out thanks for your help.

Chris

and thank YOU sir, for this opportunity. My son AT1 Beaudoin has proudly served 11 yearss as well. 1/2 way there !, his younger brother AB3 Beaudoin served 4, and thier brother in law has served for nearly 11 years.

 Go NAVY !

I just want to thank you all for the very warm welcome.  My wife is a member of the Mom for Navy site but unfortunately she is unable to post at this time as she is sitting in a hospital bed fighting some kind of intestinal infection so please excuse me if I am short.  I just wanted to acknowledge your greetings and thank you all for  your service, and your families service.....

Semper Fi

Thank you Tim !!! I feel like my family has grown to the size of US NAVY !!!

Alex

Thank you so much for your warm welcome.  It is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

David

Thank you for the help and advice, the way that I understand it with his job he signed with an IT job desegnated to him.

Thanks Kevin

Hey Tim, Thanks for the Welcome.

Looks like I'm in for a wild ride. So many new terms to learn. I have a spreadsheet opened for new words and notes to myself.

I think I'd like to tell my story and post it. Is there a Group it should go in?

"Support our Troops" took on a new meaning for me, especially today.

-Bob