Chuck's Comments

How proud you must be. My husband (John) grew up a Navy Brat on Ohau for 8 years. What a fabulous place to be stationed. He is actually entering the Navy Reserves - a Seabee - so we won't be leaving PA. Which, with a teenage daughter, is probably a good thing.

Absolutely! I'm hoping the weather holds up as we are planning on driving. If not I guess I'll have to hijack a snowplow! I'm really looking forward to it. How about you? When is your son's PIR?

Hi Chuck! Thanks for the welcome! I am located in south central Pennsylvania - York to be exact. My husband is actually at GL now in boot camp. Counting down the days til his PIR on 12/18.

Hi Chuck. I work for Bombardier Aerospace in CT. We have other service centers in Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Wichita, and Tucson. I was an AE in the Navy and they are hard to find in the civilian market. Tell your son to check us out when he gets out.

That is a very fitting passage my friend....thank you!

Best of luck on that test score Chuck. We, as a nation, are going through a fundemental shift in thinking and support for the military....I fear the destination will be far worse than the journey and am starting to loose sleep with worry for our children and our country. Pray for us as I think only divine intervention may save us!!

Hey Chuck, good to hear from you. Buck is still in Panama City Fl. He is in his third month of dive school and is due to graduate in November. I took his car to him last month and took a tour of the base and it was pretty neat. Buck has become a fitness junckie. They work out/get worked out all the time, and I think he actually enjoys it lol. How is Andrew doing these days?

Dooooh--- I knew that about Hawaii....I don't know where the Whidbey Island came from!! Sometimes my feeble mind just comes up wierdness like that!!! Wishing Andrew good luck on the E4 test....Eric was studying for his second-class but think that might get delayed with the change now to nights and all.....................

Hi Chuck....been a crazy couple of weeks between work and the site. Finally getting around to catching up on messages....just in time to get behind again!

Both doing OK....Kat had a coupel of weeks of leave..stayed in Everett as her mom drove up from Vegas to visit taking all kinds of Kat's old stuff up to her. They spent the time doing girlie stuff and I guess had a good visit, though they were out on montain bikes and Kat ended up with 7 stiches in the palm of her left hand. She's back to work now, and the realization has hit she has 7 months left in the Navy so she is making school plans and all those kind of things. She's looking forward to getting out but will stay up there..has an apartment and boyfriend. eric is doing ok too...they moved the Roosevelt from Norfolk up toe Northrop's area in Newport News to start the reactor refuel job (40 months worth). He's in security right now and is working nights.....guess the yard is a very high crime area and since it is not a military installation there are problems with vehicle security and all the other things taken for granted on a base. He'll survive....and working night has cut into the party hours (A GOOD THING) so he's lloking to start exercising on a regualr basis again and cutting out the adult beverages (Also a good thing.....).

How's Andrew doing....still at Whidbey I assume? Getting pretty far along in his training I imagine!!

Thank you

Thank you for the welcome.

Chuck,

thanks for asking. Evan is doing good. They are two months into their cruise right now and his updates have been positive. He's working on the flight deck and says that it is a little hot up there. Long hours and hard work. Cindy and I are planning our trip to San Diego to see the ship come, we can't wait. So we get short updates every couple of days and from what we gather he is loving work but can't wait to come home again for a visit.

So how has Andrew been doing? Is he still loving Hawaii?

I'll bet that was a really nice week together! I really cannot remember the last time that I've seen Eric and Kat toghter....want to say about 4 1/2 years ago.....man time flies whne you have fun!

Pretty quite on the kid's front....Kat is counting down the months....eight to go she says. Think she'll stay in the Everett area and head to school. Eric is prety quiet too....doing the MA thing now and doing the security watches now that the ship is in port for a few years. We'll see what happens down the road as this is all still pretty new though he was supposed to finally get into barricks this week and off the ship.

Whats next for Andrew? He was getting a car as I remember and was going to have some flexibility and wheels......

Enjoy your Son's visit. I am Proud of he is wanting to serve his Country. Let me know when you are free.

Chuck I sent you a Friends Request, so I could comment more about my Grandson in privite.

Thanks Chuck for the contact. Brad was also in Hawaii on the P3's. He is based at Whidbey but now somewhere "over there".

Carolyn

Chuck,
Alot has been going on. Andrew graduated A school in Texas about 3 weeks ago. He came home for 2 weeks and got married! It was a busy 2 weeks.
He reported to Bangor WA last Friday. He started his orentation on Monday. He is working with Marines and still getting used to them :)
How is your Andrew enjoying Hawaii?

is he still thinking of Coast Guard?

HELLO CHUCK!!! yup...he got his last cast off today as a matter of fact and said his arm is yucky and skinny...thanks for asking...bet Andrew is going to be real busy soon!!