Navy Dads
Dale E. Bort
Male
Profile Information:
- Your Sailor's First Name (Please Do Not Post SEAL Names)
- Patrick
- Describe A Little About Yourself (your IP address/location will be checked::
- Proud father
- Prior Military Experience
- Proud Army Veteran
- What Brought You To This Site:
- My son is currently serving
- What Were Your Feelings When Your Sailor Joined The Navy:
- Nervous for him. Still remember my boot and hoped he knew what was before him.
- What Is Your Relationship With Your Sailor
- Dad
- Please Share: How Did You Find Us?
- Looking on Internet.
NavyDads Admin (Paul)
Understand your position of feeling helpless.....for Navy parents, I'd scour the Corpsman, SeaBee, and EOD areas...generally most sailors in these rates end up in Af'stan. Our Care Package group has some info as well about shipping goodies overseas as well....and our long-time member Cora has lists of requested items. Molly's Adopt a Sailor program ships TONS of stuff all the time as well.....see would be a great contact and you might get involved with "boxing" parties. How to find this stuff:go to the main page and on the bottom left of the page is a Google text search box I put up awhile ago....
Also for things like Molly's work, she does much mroe on FaceBook than here so you might want to look there as well:
We have some groups related to these rates and you can find them by going to the top menu bar, clicking Groups and you'll see a search box there:
Dec 30, 2011
Steve Hilty
Dale, I can understand your concern. Our son (Seabee) just reurned from Afghan. To answer some of your concerns, packages took about a week ..and a half on average to get there. (From Indiana)USPS Priority mail, military rates. No matter where he went he had plenty of food and a roof over his head. They are well protected and well trained to fight if need be. That being said there are good and bad days. As far as contacting other dads, your son will meet many friends, they usually have Facebook accounts which could lead to contacts with other dads. Internet service is usually available but sometimes intermittant. Sign up for Skype, a video image is worth a million words. My son will be "home" in a few days for leave. If you have any questions let me know and I will answer the best I can.
Dec 31, 2011
Steve Hilty
Nothing wrong with worrying, believe me. You don't have the corner on that. I'm prior Navy but was never associated with the Seabees so we learned a lot too. You never mentioned your son's rate but I know he's in good hands. Anything I can help out with just drop a line. My son has several months in the states now but will be deployed again this year (2012).
Dec 31, 2011