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I always put crazy titles on blogs as they make you laugh and get you all curious as to what it's about.

Firstly, let me say thank you for the warm welcome to the site from the Admin and co-admin people, it's really appreciated.  Leeanne hasn't even left for Boot Camp yet and already I have questions!!  Is it true they don't eat or sleep for the first 40 hours?  If so, I welcome it for her, toughen her up and make her realise what she is capable of.

Anyway,…

Its with heavy heart I post the passing of this sailor she was found in the gulf of oman. Her  name has been withheld pending notification of next of kin.

http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-hunts-for-sailor-feared-overboard.html?ESRC=eb.nl

Shipmate rest your oars!!

From U.S. 5th Fleet Public Affairs

GULF OF OMAN (NNS) -- U.S. and British units are searching for a Sailor from USS Halsey (DDG 97) who went missing while the ship was conducting operations in the Gulf of Oman Jan. 18.



The Sailor did not report to watch and after a search of the ship, man overboard was called away.



Helicopters from Halsey, USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7), and the Royal Navy's HMS Cumberland (F85) are currently conducting…

The response to this was great. I never expected to have a welcome like this.

My son Wyatt is still in the very early stages of entering the Navy. He will go to his physical test and final enlistment next month. He hopes to be headed to bootcamp right after his high school graduation. Im am very proud of him. He was looking at going to the Coast Guard for the last couple of years. One of his football team mates enlisted in the Navy last year and came home a month ago and told Wyatt what…

Fellow dads, thanks for the welcome aboard.

My father served 20 years USN and now my daughter is following in his footsteps. There were some tense moments out here in California waiting for the weather to clear in the midwest but she's on the chilly ground in Great Lakes and just got off the bus.

Any insight into what to expect in the next eight or nine weeks will be appreciated. We live in the San Francisco Bay Area so she has quite a rude awakening adjusting…

Everyday of the week at DFW Airport a flight bring in Soldiers on for 2 weeks of R&R. Each flight is greeted by not only passengers waiting for flights but local Businesses, Groups, Classes from local Schools and anyone who would like to spend time greeting the guys and gals home. Parking in the Airport is free and there are Flags available to everyone. Many bring Banners and as they walk through the sea of people you will see cell phones offers to them to make their "I'm Home…

For those of you interested in how Wes has done since his discharge. . . it has been a long and rough road for him.  He fell into a deep depression and still fights off bouts of it.  Since his discharge he tried to pick up the pieces but ran into wall after wall, there just wasn't anything in the job front for anyone.  He moved to Iowa where his grandparents lived and landed acouple jobs that only let him go just before the probationary period drew near (they didn't want to pay benefits). …

Got the kid in the box last week with a letter that Cody wrote at the airport to remind us that this was just a short time and that we would see him soon and then today go his address so we can send letters.

my son Daniel a hospitalcorpsman has been at Sigonella NAS for alittle more than a month and sounds like he is adapting well. sending nice pictures of the scenery and meeting new people. just fining it hard to adapt to the time difference in order to talk to us. Now we are awaiting for our oldest boy to go into bootcamp in SanDiego for the marines. proud of both of them!

To All NavyDads members, I wrote this several years ago and I have read it each year since. I wanted to share it with you this year. I am amazed at how much I have received each Christmas, I have pictures of my sister and her doll and me with my cast iron race car under a Christmas Tree not more than 3 foot tall, sitting on a coffee table, which was a great Christmas concering it was taken in the mid-50’s. The story below…

My son Michael graduated at Great Lakes on 10/29/10 with division 823 and has just moved to NTC for his BUD/S prep that will last until about Feb 2011. PIR was awesome, it was so great to see him after being away from him for two months. He is only 19 and it is the first time in his whole life that he has been away from the family for more than a week or so. My wife, my daughter and my sister-in-law(Michael's Godmother) all went out to Great Lakes last…