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Typical Carrier Organization
Navy warships will of course vary in size and function. Most however, have similar organizational structures. For purposes of instruction, we will examine the organizational structure of the modern aircraft carrier as the la
Read more…Thank You Navy Dads
I would like to thank Navy Dads for the last few months that my daughter was on deployment aboard the GHWB CVN 77. Your website proved to be a valuable asset. Keep up the great work.
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Read more…Christmas Letter from my son
My son wrote this the first Christmas he was underway. Thought I would share.
We will all see each other soon and when we
do we can cherish the love of family that we all will
bring, a day doesn't make a holiday, an hour doesn't or
even a minute. We
do we can cherish the love of family that we all will
bring, a day doesn't make a holiday, an hour doesn't or
even a minute. We
Lurking
Hi Guys,
Lets all start posting a little more instead of just reading posts. I know there can be more activity than this. Especially the bootcamp forum. The Moms are blowing us away.
Read more…From U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command
We heard this about some newly graduated recruits: Sailors Setting the Example: According to Larry Kendrick, Pensacola International Airport Ambassador, on Nov. 25, three Navy recruits fresh from Great Lakes arrived at the airport enroute to Naval Ai
Read more…HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL NAVY ship 03 div 023
I was very lucky today and thankful to have received a 15 min phone call and a phone pic of my son at the vfw sponsored turkey dinner for recruit at the great lakes navel base. Any other dads with a recruit in great lakes navel command ship 03 div 0
Read more…new sailor in yokosuka
my son just arrived in yokosuka 11/16. my wife and i were wondering what is the best way to communicate with our sailor. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Read more…Clothing Allowance
My son is about to go on his first deployment and just called to say he had to spend most of his paycheck to load up on clothing and supplies for the next 6 months. I thought the military provided a clothing allowance. Do our sailors have to buy all
Read more…A Sailors Christmas ~
Twas the night before Christmas, and he lived in a crowd, In a 40 man berthing, with shipmates so loud.
I had come down the exhaust stack with presents to give, And to see just who in this rack did live.
I looked all about, and a strange sight I did
Read more…The Keel Laying of the first Zumwalt Class
We have a shipbuilder on our site I thought you all would like to see what our shipyards are up to lately. If the Admins don't mind, I'd like to redirect interested folks to Keel Laying at The Patriot Woodworker and read a neat story by one of our me
Read more…Orders Received
My reserve sailor received the following: You are assigned to XXXXXXX for inactive duty in a pay status, cross assigned to XXXXXXX.
Can some one explain this? What is "inactive duty", "in a pay status" and what is "cross assigned?"
thanks,
Read more…Any one with a recruit in Ship-09 Div-042 PIR 13 Jan 12
Any one with a son /daughter shp 09 Div 042.
Read more…Desperately needing advice
My son is a Navy reservist IT. He has two more years to complete college with plans to go active and become an officer. Who does he talk to about navigating what appears to be a mass of confusion about; earned Navy credits, financial, aid, ROTC, hi
Read more…What info can we send?
There is some terrific info here! My son is still at boot camp, then off to Nuke school.
He's trying to decide if he should go sub or carrier. With the sub he's 3 months on/off, carrier 6 months. He and his fiance are already finding this "brief" time
Where will he go?
My son is halfway through "A" school in San Antonio, training to be a hospital corpseman. Last week, he told his mother and I that he would be getting some choices as to where he might be deployed after training. Those choices included Spain, Italy
Read more…The Quota's are out.....
Woo-hoo... The quotas from the last testing cycle just came out today....
E-4
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...5NDg2&hl=en_US
E-5
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...2YmNm&hl=en_US
E-6
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...3MWNi&hl=en_US
I say a
change rating to Undesigned during RTC
Hi
I speak for myself. I'm a depper in Navy.
For some reason I don't think I can do the job which I signed in my contract, this is my question. In RTC can I change my job even to Undesigned?
Thank you for your time and information
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