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Well folks let me touch on one thing real quick, I am sitting here at Navy Lodge that's right I said Navy Lodge and that feels so easy to say.

This odyssey began right at 3months ago, I never would have dreamed this could be but yet here we are. He is so different from that teenage boy that left my house in mid April and its not the…

The way I understand it, my son has 4 more days to pass his "run" or he'll be separated from service. General discharge. The last day should be a week from tomorrow. Between now and then, he said he'll receive motivational chats from the bottom of the chain to the Commander of the RTC. Through letters and calls, this whole experience has drawn us close together....more so than ever. He doesn't know it, but over the next week he'll receive more mail than he'll have time to read. But maybe…

On the day this young man was born July 4th 1994 I stood at the foot of his mothers bed holding him and as I did I looked at my lovely wife and said "this is going to be a hell of a ride" and I must say it has been at least that

This is the entry that I have been waiting to write for quite sometime now and it has finally come around. My…

Hello everyone. My son has xhecked in with the POs at the airporr and called. He spoke to his morher and she was a bit shaken with his tone. As a marine I tried to explain it is the initial shock of military life. Looking forward to watching my son drill at The PIR. Thanks for welcoming me into the group

Turn by Natalie June Reilly

You think you know what it means to love your country, until your firstborn son comes to you with the news that he’s joined the U.S. Navy. The sheer pride on his face is enough to comfort you — his mother — because you know he’s no longer a little boy. He is a young man struggling to find his feet in this world.

Admiration doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what you feel for him and for his decision. However, in the back of your mind,…

-----Original Message-----From: Vinson, Toby R. ITCM CCSG11, SEL Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:44 PM

To: CCSG11 All Hands

Subject: Right Hand person brunch in the CPO MESS



WT-11,



When you see LN1 Hills walking about the decks or doing his job at NIMITZ Legal - please congratulate him as being selected as the CSG 11 CPO's "Right Hand" person!



LN1 Hills will be invited to the CHIEF's Mess on Sunday to enjoy brunch with the CPO Mess.

 Hey I am back again with a bit of information and a bunch of opinion.....

    This continues to be one of the hardest things I have ever had to sit on my hands and let happen. He called his mother yesterday and started his conversation by telling her how sorry he was he had let us and everyone pulling for him down, see after his initial fail on his run he was segregated from his shipmates and this is really sticking in my crawl the Navy spent the first seven weeks this young man was…

Which is better, safer, more use full after the Navy, Undes or BM? If your academically dropped from C school, already E4 can you still keep E4 as Undes?

Well the day has came & passed Alyssa left for basic on Wednesday June 12th, all has been ok so far until yesterday (fathers day) it was pretty rough!!!

Has any one have knowledge or experience with being dropped from an FC "C" School and what happens after. Any advice? If you're re-classing, do you have to take what ever is available right away or can you wait and for something more fitting your "A" School or asvab score? Thanks.

 Well gentlemen once again please endure my mental purging....…

I have read from the N4M site, that there's a scam going on, that someone or a grp are pretending to be your sailor with a cold, that are in need of money only by wire method,, so please be alert on any phoney calls that may come your way, and check and confirm always!