What Is Or Will Be Your Sailor's Rating (Job Classification) - ex. ABE, AM, GM, etc
Operations Specialist 3rd Class
Describe A Little About Yourself (your IP address/location will be checked::
Married to my love 29 years; Proud father of a Navy sailor and 3 accomplished beautiful daughters; I have been a shipping lawyer for 28 years, am currently Chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the Port of New Orleans, and the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark for Louisiana and Mississippi. I enjoy golf, scuba diving and photography.
What Brought You To This Site:
My son is currently serving
What Were Your Feelings When Your Sailor Joined The Navy:
My feelings were mixed. I was extremely proud of his decision to serve. At the same time I felt the same worry and concern that I assume is felt by any parent of a current serviceman or woman in this time of uncertainty in the Middle East. Each stage of my son's experience in the Navy brings with it new feelings of pride and concern. Within about the next month or so our son will sail on his first deployment. Much hand holding expected with his Mom during the next several weeks.
What Is Your Relationship With Your Sailor
Dad
Please Share: How Did You Find Us?
A link on the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) Community website.
Comments
I would like to take this time to point you in some of the right directions. For starters if you haven't had the time take a look at the right side of any page you click on. There you will find some useful information for you. The links under the about this site will help you with how this site got started, navigation, PIR, About us, community guidelines and some links to some of the groups that beginners with a lot of questions will find very useful. There is also a link called Navy Enlisted Ratings, this link will take you to a brief description of the rates (jobs) in the Navy that you can find your sailors rate and find out some information about the rate that they are in.
First and foremost though we are all here for the same reason. We are curious about what our young sailors are getting into and for more information about the rate or job that they will be doing for the next 4-6 yrs of their lives. I know when I first got here I had lots of questions and there was not a lot of people on this site but they all were either going through the same thing or had been through it and had sailors out in the fleet. Now this site has grown to over 2000 members, Dads, Moms, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, sisters, brothers, girlfriends and boyfriends. Don't be afraid to ask questions of members in here because somewhere along the way we have all had the same questions and asked. There are a lot of knowledgeable people on this site with various years of experience in the NAVY either on their own account or through their Sailors.
Again welcome aboard and BRAVO ZULU to you and your son Jack on his enlistment and please thank him for me for making the choice to defend the freedoms that my family, this country and I have and enjoy.
Navy dads Co-admin Tim
Please feel free to ask question.
Again Welcome and keep us updated as to you recruit’s progress.
HooYah US Navy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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