Crap ass day...
Jetmech_63
Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
I need to vent
I got a phone call on my cell phone today and the number was from Millington Tenn...when you're in the navy and you see that number, it's never good. It was my detailer, the guy in charge of where jet mechanic senior chiefs go... After waiting for shore duty for 7 years and 3 back to back deployments he had to cut my 3 year shore tour short by 18 months and i'm getting force deployed back on sea duty in 60 days and deploying for 10 months in August. This will be my 10th deployment in 16 years, the 6th over 9 months long. My first kid is due march 18th and i planned him around shore duty so i could be home for atleast his first 2 years. I gotta do what i gotta do, i am a Sailor but...DAMN, i feel so bad for my wife, she has already had to sacrifice and go through so much... Fun meter is getting pegged. Vent off...
I got a phone call on my cell phone today and the number was from Millington Tenn...when you're in the navy and you see that number, it's never good. It was my detailer, the guy in charge of where jet mechanic senior chiefs go... After waiting for shore duty for 7 years and 3 back to back deployments he had to cut my 3 year shore tour short by 18 months and i'm getting force deployed back on sea duty in 60 days and deploying for 10 months in August. This will be my 10th deployment in 16 years, the 6th over 9 months long. My first kid is due march 18th and i planned him around shore duty so i could be home for atleast his first 2 years. I gotta do what i gotta do, i am a Sailor but...DAMN, i feel so bad for my wife, she has already had to sacrifice and go through so much... Fun meter is getting pegged. Vent off...
0
Comments
No offense intended to anyone who hasn't served but this is the kind sacrifice that only makes sense to a soldier or a sailor.
"Thank You Sir !"
For your Service & Sacrifice to our Country
I have never served, but am So Very Thankful to Every Soldier like "YOU" that has done & given so much for us/me in this Country. Most people just say Thank You for your Service, and don't think about all the sacrifices you make, especially giving up Family/Home time we all take for granted, and all you all actually give.
I just know that one day when your child grows up he/she could be nothing but Proud of you - DAD.
Wishing you a Safe Deployment, Happy and Healthy Child and Wife, and a Speedy return Home!!
Spend as much time as you can with your family is the only advice to be given
Not a foreign concept to me, i assure you...
Is it easier to stay in touch now while deployed, as opposed to just a decade ago? Absolutely, think about it for a minute....twitter, skype, facebook, xbox live streams, kik, facetime,etc all have made being deployed 100% easier than in the telephone days. Is it better to see your kid's loose tooth on skype or have it mentioned weeks later on a rushed phone call.....
That is why it is my pet peeve to hear someone's wife complain about her husband deploying. It was not that they had not even come close to being seperated for as long as my family and I over a career.....well maybe that could be a bit of it...I am human after all.
It goes without saying that I hope your orders are changed again for maybe the 50th time, but this time in your favor.
Stay safe
I stepped on your thread and on you. You did what everybody does when they get the news...gripe, ***, complain because it is such a pita. I should have just let you rant and said(typed) something supportive and left it at that. I should not have brought my personal pet peeve into your thread and for that I apoligize to you.
Have a safe deployment & may it be short!
But on the bright side, if you want a good phone call from Millington, I could go borrow one of my friends' long distance and give you a call to cheer you up! I could tell you all about Zoidians or something?
I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot. I will smoke anything, though.