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Comment by Marianne T on October 25, 2009 at 8:24pm

Patty, Yes there is a barge coming in for berthing. No one is going to be staying on the ship. They are supposed to be in homeport for almost a year before the next deployment. Of course they will start work-ups or sea trials sometime this summer though. Wes is right. The weather this past week in SD was perfect! I do love it there I must admit. Difficult coming home last night to pouring rain and wind. Today was sunny, but chilly.
Welcome Jboysmom! Claudia is right about the A school graduation, but I am sure if you could make it your son would like that. I live in NJ and both of my sons went to PCola for A school so I was not able to get to their graduations. The Tiger cruise is a cruise offered to families(other than spouses or significant others) of sailors aboard ships or subs. Both of my sons are on carriers so I went on the TC for the USS Ronald Reagan. I flew to Hawaii, met the ship and cruised with them from Pearl Harbor to North Island Naval Air Base in San Diego. It was 7 days of about one of the most memorable experiences in my life! Other ships offer them too and from all sorts of locations and time lengths. Some ships also have even day cruises for families. Maybe you will get an opportunity to this at some point too. I am going to send our Ms. Patty on the the TC with the RR as her son his on the same ship!
Patty, start training now! Those ladders and "knee knockers" as they call them are serious business when you are not used to them!!!!!!! I will get you ready for the rest!

Comment by Claudia on October 25, 2009 at 3:35pm

That's really about all it is. It's not fancy like PIR. There were only a handful of us there to see it but it was good to see what they had been doing for all those weeks and I got to take some pictures of it. My son wanted me to come so I went. I don't regret it at all. But yes, basically they get a certificate and a hand shake and that's it.

Comment by Patty on October 25, 2009 at 3:35pm

Hey friends!!!!

Have been watching g-baby this weekend while her parents went to a funeral of a friend that they went to college with in San Antonio, Tx. Pretty sad. He had leukemia and died at 25yrs. old. I thank the lord that both of mine are healthy!!

WELCOME BACK MARIANNE!!!!

What a awesome experience! I can't wait to see your pic's. and I can't wait to go on the next cruise. May be a while from what Wes said they are gonna be in San Diego for some time doing some work on the ship. Wes can get from his rack to the galley, the hanger bay and outside. That is all he is suppose to do until he goes through indoc tomorrow. He sounds good! He said there is not much storage space but he is sleeping fine. Gets pretty cold at night was going to go and buy some sweats. He said most of the people are gone on leave right now of course. He is hoping that he stays on the ship or in a barracks. He has heard that they are bringing in some berthing barges for the sailors to sleep in while the ship is undergoing maintenance. He seems to like San Diego. Said it was beautiful and the weather was nice. No humidity.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!!!! Welcome jboysmom!!! Hope you enjoy the group!!! These are a great bunch of ladies!! Hope you feel right at home. :o)

Comment by jboysmom on October 25, 2009 at 1:03pm

Claudia, I was told that the graduation from A-school was not much. They just walk up, get a piece of paper, shake and hand and it's done. But you said it was more. Please send me more information because we are wanting to go down for our son's graduation in December from A-school, but most have said it's not much.

Comment by Claudia on October 25, 2009 at 12:28pm

jboysmom, welcome to our group. That is great that you got to visit with your son. I went to my son's graduation from A school at P-cola. It was great. They showed us all the areas and the things they learned at the school.

Marianne, welcome back. I'm glad your trip was great and I can't wait to see the pics.

Comment by jboysmom on October 25, 2009 at 11:19am

Hi AS moms. I just joined this group. My son is in A-school in P-cola and is AS. He's only in his 3rd week of school there and is due to graduate Dec. 14th. I am very new to all this, but I did get to go visit with my son last weekend. It was great to get to see him and see where he lives and goes to school there in P-cola.

I have a question - What is a Tiger Cruise?

Comment by Sally S. ( Ginny's Mommy!!) on October 25, 2009 at 11:00am

WOW !!! I am in tears thanks Marianne you are gonna take us on your journey with you ... I am so proud of of young men and Women and Yes I am very very Proud of MY Ginny I know how difficult it must be to be the only women in a mans world ..yuk cant wait to hear more... I cant wait til we can someday all meet some us Maryland Moms met for the first time yesterday ..how great and inspiring and just plain awesome it was !!!!! I cant wait to meet my AS sisters !!!!

Comment by Cindy on October 25, 2009 at 10:32am

Marianne, we knew you would have a fabulous time! Can't wait to see some pics.

Comment by Marianne T on October 25, 2009 at 10:20am

Hey everybody! I am finally back in NJ again. I tried to get onto N4M's with my sister's computer when we got back to San Diego, but I couldn't access it for some strange reason so here I am now!
I cannot begin to tell what an incredible experience I had over the last 2 weeks. Lots of laughs, tears, cheers you name it! If any of you get the opportunity to take a Tiger Cruise or anything like it, DO IT! I have a new appreciation for what our sailors go through day in and out and this was on their finally journey home. Can't even begin to imagine what life is like when they are underway for a mission.
Sally, I TRULY give you Ginny lots of credit. Being a female in the military is not an easy task, but God bless them these young women are incredible!!!
Patty, I know EXACTLY how Wes feels right now. The only thing I mastered after 7 days was to get from my berthing to the hangar bay and then to the mess hall! You cannot even imagine the size of that "boat"! I love every minute of it though and Wes will catch on much faster than I did on how to get around. The only thing that was a bit of a problem was the food! I don't eat like that normally and it just did not agree with me!!! I didn't get sea sick and I actually had no problem with my rack with sleeping. I guess we were running so much during the day, by the time taps came I was more than ready to sleep. I found the slight rocking of the ship at night to be very comforting.
Cindy, Wow! A school for Jake is going right along! You will be finding out where his orders will be real soon!
Claudia, This is why we won't let Patty leave us!!!!!LOL
Glad to be back with you all here and hopefully I will figure out how to load these pics for everybody to see!

Comment by Sally S. ( Ginny's Mommy!!) on October 24, 2009 at 4:56pm

I know Claudia it does :( but I will have a few days with her tho ...

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