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MY Deployment Story
Forewarning: I know I have some MOPS friends that read the blog. THANK YOU! But if you haven’t been to your MOPS meeting yet I kind of spell out my ‘talk’. You might not want to read this if you don’t want to see it all spelled out before hand 🙂 (Our church is fortunate to have three chapters of MOPS … I spoke for the first chapter and have two more to go.) I DID IT! I was nervous … I worked over the course of the weekend (with some help from my mom, a retired Air Force wife) to get the words right … I got up a…
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Popular Articles: Week of January 17 – 23
Here were our top 10 most-viewed articles for the week on MilitaryAvenue.com: Haiti: Index of articles related to Haiti and our Military Response The USS Bataan Performing Multiple Missions off Haiti – DoD Roundtable Air Force Reserve Response to the Haiti Crisis – DoD Roundtable The National Museum of the United States Air Force The USS Bataan’s Medical Capabilities – DoD Roundtable Haiti and the Military Response – DoD Roundtable Air Flow into Haiti – US Air Force Mobility Forces – DoD Roundtable The Aircraft Carrier, USS Carl Vinson is off Haiti – DoD Roundtable Obama Permits Reserve Activations for Haiti Effort Troops Set Up Front Lines for Survival in Haiti…
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The Aircraft Carrier, USS Carl Vinson is off Haiti – DoD Roundtable
During this afternoon’s DoD Blogger’s Roundtable U.S. Navy Capt. Bruce H. Lindsey, commanding officer, USS Carl Vinson explained the aircraft carrier’s pivotal role for operations in support of Operation Unified Response (Haiti). A great opportunity to talk to the Captain while he was directing operations on the carrier located in Port-au-Prince bay area. I am going to start off with a great story of technology and with a twist that will touch the hearts and souls of America. I asked the Captain to relay something to America that would in fact touch our hearts and he said he had a great one. A group in Grand Rapids, Michigan emailed the…
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Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) Playing Critical Role in Haiti Relief – DoD Roundtable
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) has become a critical link in the logistics flow of supplies to Haiti in support of relief efforts. Located just 170 miles from Port-au-Prince the installation’s Task Force (TF) 48 commanded by U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Patricia E. Wolfe Supply Corps has been established with a joint Navy and Army team. The admiral spoke to the DoD Blogger’s Roundtable this morning to provide insight into the mission and contribution of the Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, and the criticality of the logistical effort to deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance to Haiti. The admiral noted that Cuba has opened its airspace to over flight allowing international relief…
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USS Normandy Supporting Haitian Relief Efforts – DoD Roundtable
The Department of Defense hosted a Bloggers Roundtable this afternoon to continue the information flow about our efforts to assist the citizens of Haiti! The guests were U.S. Navy Capt. Jeffrey T Griffin, commanding officer of the USS Normandy and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Hansen, officer-in-charge of HSL 46. “USS Normandy (CG 60), an aegis cruiser, arrived off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti Jan. 17 to support Operation Unified Response. Immediately upon arrival pilots from Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (Light) (HSL) 46, stationed in Mayport, Fla. Began utilizing the two embarked SH-60B helicopters. So far the “Screaming Seagulls” of HSL 46 have transported personnel both for medical treatment and to…
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Shakin’ in my boots
Monday I will step out of my comfort zone. In a big way! I don’t do a lot public speaking. Strike that. I don’t do public speaking. But when I was called by an acquaintance earlier this Fall and asked to speak at a MOPS meeting about being a military-wife & mom how could I say no? I’m honored that this group of gals not only thought of ME to speak but that they want to hear about the “plight” of military-wives at all. The meeting will start off with the usual coffee, breakfast and fellowship with fellow moms of preschoolers, toddlers and babies. Fellowship with adults: Something ALL moms…
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Air Flow into Haiti – US Air Force Mobility Forces – DoD Roundtable
The guests for today’s Department of Defense Blogger’s Roundtable were U.S. Air Force Col. John Romero, chief of Air Mobility Division for the 612th Air Operations Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, A.Z., and Lt Col Brad Graff of the 601st Air Operations Center at Tyndall Air Force Base. Col. Romero and Lt Col Graff provided an update of Air Force Southern Command’s ongoing support to the Haitian government and relief efforts—specifically–how airmen have been able to manage the flow of aircraft into Haiti, prioritize landing times based off current needs on the ground, and ensure the safe and efficient flow of relief supplies into Haiti. “Since implementation of the…
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Thankful Thursday: Sunny-Yellow Flowers
I am thankful for bright yellow-sunny flowers in the dead of winter; flowers from my wonderful husband for no apparent reason. Funny, he came home for a little while yesterday during lunch and was just a little-snippy. Not sure what was bothering him but his answers to my questions were short. His patience was very lacking. So what did I do in turn? I didn’t nag him. I didn’t get my undies-in-a-bunch. I just let it go. (I’m convinced that he sometimes gets a waft of my pregnancy-hormones … and we all know what they can do to us girls … well the mood-swing can be ten times worse for the…
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The USS Bataan Performing Multiple Missions off Haiti – DoD Roundtable
The USS Bataan Performing Multiple Missions off Haiti – DoD Roundtable The USS Bataan has begun ship to shore operations with assets from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit with their CH-53 and UH-1N helicopters. They have established a humanitarian relief distribution center near Port-au-Prince. The DoD New Media Directorate conducted a DoD Bloggers Roundtable Discussion with U.S. Navy Capt. Samuel Charles Henry Howard, commanding officer of the USS Bataan from his ship off the Haitian coast. Thank you Captain Howard for taking the time to tell us what your men and women were doing to support the relief efforts! The Bataan medical staff now has 17 patients aboard the ship…
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From Holiday Bliss to This!
There are a few events that bring families together. By that I am thinking the aunts, uncles, cousins, in laws and out laws. Holidays are my first thought. Plenty of food, drink, gaiety, laughter, a touch of sibling rivalry, bouts of testosterone surges, and wafts of whimsical play. Weddings are up there on the chart of reasons to share time outside of the house; again, most of the above interactions occur. Funerals pull the heart strings of loved ones to the center of one’s grief but usually that center is showered with memories, joy in the idea of the deceased being pain-free, hope of eternal rest for the loved one.…
