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Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on December 29, 2014 at 11:53am

Happy Monday - Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.  We got to talk to sailor Christmas Eve.  Their "Classy Christmas Dinner" was a success!  He said he might get his orders tomorrow but for sure this week.  Oral boards are scheduled for next Monday.  Here's a picture from Christmas Eve with his NY friend!

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on December 24, 2014 at 1:52pm

Good luck to your son Mike as he moves on to the civilian world. Keep us posted on how things go (ours is just getting ready to graduate proto on 1/23/15 so we still have a long ways to go!).

Please thank him for his service for us.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 24, 2014 at 1:11pm

Once part of the NavyDads family, always part of the Navydads family.  Stop by anytime bud and say hi and let us know and you and your son are doing.  Thanks for raising a great American!

Comment by Mike K on December 24, 2014 at 12:40pm

I have been a part of this site for nearly six years now and it has been great.  Thought I would let everyone know our sailor, who is about to leave the Navy has just been offered a job at an industry near Charleston SC.  He is very excited and will put the skills he learned in the Navy to good use at his new job.  Stress levels have gone down considerably.  Thanks to all for their support.  This site has helped in many ways.

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on December 24, 2014 at 11:37am

I got a text from my sailor this morning and he said they were going to a buddies house tonight for a "classy Christmas dinner".  He said he would send pictures and would call & facetime later.  Makes me happy that he has good friends to spend the day with!

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!  To those that have their sailors home for Christmas - Enjoy!  For those of us who don't I understand and send extra hugs your way. 

Peace to all of you!

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on December 17, 2014 at 11:02am

Sailor took his 100% exam yesterday - one step closer to graduation!

He also said that they were told they should be getting their orders any time now - fingers crossed he gets West Coast (but I won't hold my breath!)

Have a great day!

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on December 15, 2014 at 11:22am

Aw Tom - that's beautiful!  Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Carol Pigg on December 15, 2014 at 7:47am

Oh, Tom, I'm already emotional, and you post this wonderful story.  Thanks for finding this.  

Comment by Tom Lufkin on December 14, 2014 at 9:41pm

Below is a true story about the type of men who serve on our nuclear submarines.

Comment by Tom Lufkin on December 14, 2014 at 9:39pm

Christmas 1964 

USS Sam Houston SSBN 609 Blue

by Jim Terrell

 

   It was mid-December 1964 and it was as cold as one would expect Connecticut to be at that time of the year.  We boarded the busses and after a while we were on our way to QUONSET POINT NAVAL AIR STATION where an aircraft waited to take us to Scotland.  We were going back a few days early this time.  The idea was to relieve the other crew so they could get home for Christmas.  The faces of the men betrayed their remorse at leaving home at this time of the year.  There was little of the usual horseplay and chatter we normally enjoyed on these trips.  Instead the men stared out the windows reflecting on the price they and their families paid for security of our Nation.  Children would rush downstairs on Christmas morning to discover a bounty of presents. Their fathers would share that precious moment, unaware that somewhere out in the worlds ocean, other fathers,  crammed into a cylinder of steel, kept watch over the delicate world peace.  On our watch, there was peace on Earth.

 

   Takeoffs always amused me.  I chuckled watching men who would take a boat to test depth and think nothing of it, grip the armrest so hard their knuckles turned white.  They sat rigid with their heads back and their eyes closed,  perhaps making peace with their maker, while the plane rotated and climbed out into the morning sunshine.  In a few minutes we had reached our altitude and leveled out.  Almost immediately, I noticed a couple of the guys begin to move around the plane having conferences with first one group and then another.  Soon they approached us with their proposition.  They proposed that although we had our duty to do we need not sacrifice our customs and traditions.  We couldn’t be home for Christmas with our kids but we could share with others.  There was an orphanage in Dunoon with children in need of what we had to give.  Soon the hat was passed, monies collected, plans made and duties assigned.  The balance of the flight seemed more relaxed, and it was not long before I heard someone question the masculinity of a Nav ET.  I knew then that all was well.

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