Posts tagged ‘ships’

If you haven’t read the post directly preceding this one, read that first.  This is a continuation.
Jeremy emailed me some pictures.  He said to mention he’s been stationed on the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).  It is the only ship in the US Navy to have a British officer permanently stationed aboard.  He adds [...]

And We Have Another Winner!

April 9th, 2008

I am pleased to announce that Jeremy is now Surface Warfare qualified. 
Yay, Jeremy!  (Insert huge round of applause here.)
You may remember from my earlier post about it that he had a whole series of things he had to do to get this qualification:

He had to complete some books
And then take a test.  The test was [...]

Saturday was an historic day for my former ship, the former USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), and I didn’t even know about it until today. So that is why I am posting about this today and not Saturday.  I have pictures of my own, which I will attempt to post soon.
Saturday the John F. Kennedy [...]

I’m Back

March 7th, 2008

Sorry I’ve been away so long.  I haven’t been literally away.  I just got busy doing other things and so didn’t blog.
So here’s an update on the news in my life:
In early February Jeremy came home for a couple of days.  That was a surprise.  He literally didn’t know until the day he came home [...]

Surprise!

January 10th, 2008

I was really surprised Tuesday when my phone rang during training.  I didn’t recognize the number so I thought I’d better answer it.  Guess what?  It was Jeremy.  I said, “Where are you?” thinking he must not be on his ship since he was calling my cell phone.  He said, “I’m on the pier.”
So began [...]