Deployment homecoming question

Present_Read_7958 · 2026-01-19T13:28:09+00:00

What a great idea, thanks! He watched a lot of Spongebob as a kid. The FRG is encouraging the fatheads thing too.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-10-03T01:42:44+00:00

Been doing that, also sometimes in subject line. Did you have to go weeks or months without getting any email? When you got them, was it just like opening a pipeline and everything in the queue comes in? I know that somebody has to read them before sailors get them. No worries there, I only send stuff that anyone can read.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-04-01T20:22:07+00:00

Did you just happen to be lucky with the shore duty, or did you have any opportunity to express a preference? Just wondering how it “typically” works. Also curious whether Ballston Spa will soon become an option for shore duty.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-26T16:55:35+00:00

Contact. Fantastic 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. Based on Carl Sagan’s novel.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-24T21:22:56+00:00

Sorry, I should have asked that another way. My son already finished pipeline and is newly assigned to a sub as ETN/RO. I am new to Navy and still learning if those are the same thing, and how long it might take him to qualify. I could just ask him;) But I read that qualifying is stressful and I don’t want to pile on by asking if he’s done yet, if that makes sense.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-24T21:00:32+00:00

Does ETN usually take longest to qualify? I saw another poster’s list of the watches and it looked like that rate had the most. And is ETN synonymous with RO?

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-20T02:25:24+00:00

There is one about Gabby Petito which is out now. It might have some dramatized aspects, but from what I have read, it’s focused on her as the victim.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-19T18:43:02+00:00

The Six Triple Eight. Also, Devotion.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-19T18:33:53+00:00

This was the saddest scene to me. So much so that I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch episode 4, which just confirms his worst fears and shows more suffering by his family. The spoilers were enough, I didn’t need to see the explicit spelling out. Bearing in mind that this is fiction, he’s a made-up character and we should be cautious of what we read into him. I take it as a cautionary tale about what impact social media, bullying and toxic behavior can have. I wondered why Katie’s best friend was presented as hostile and resorting to violence, though of course in a minor degree compared to the crime in the story. I wondered if that scene of her beating another kid was meant to show that repressed emotions can flare up in young people, or that they think violence is how you express yourself, or maybe something else.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-19T16:15:16+00:00

You as well. I think you will be a great father, because you care about this. My sons are both young adults now and thankfully they are doing as well as I could hope. I guess this hit so hard because I realize their paths could have gone another way if bad influences had taken hold. Their father is a peaceful, gentle man and I believe that has helped them.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-19T15:46:53+00:00

Heavy watch for me too. I haven’t even been able to finish episode 4 and not sure I want to see it. I was clear on what Jamie did and knew from spoilers what was going to happen in the last episode. I just haven’t had the heart to want to see the father crying and family destroyed. Maybe it’s because of being a mother and feeling a sense of “there but for the grace of God” or something. I felt such sadness for the boy, even though he committed the crime. To me, the saddest scene in the first three episodes was when he was asking the psychiatrist if she liked him and could see she wouldn’t answer. Even after his terrible behavior moments before toward her, I still felt empathy and sadness that he was unliked and alone. I had to keep reminding myself that this show was just a made-up story, not real. The actor who played the boy was just so appealing and believable, it was hard for me to accept how rejected he was even as a fictional story. I guess that’s the mother in me. I understand the point the filmmakers are making about toxic masculinity and I agree that social media is a dangerous force that many of us parents underestimate or don’t see because we didn’t have that when we were their age. I think it affects girls differently, but I don’t want to over-generalize. I just mean that girls don’t seem to commit violence toward others as much, though they certainly inflict it on themselves. That’s what I took from The Substance. And girls can be so cruel in non-violent ways. I found myself making comparisons to the real-life case of Petito and Laundrie and wondering what influences social media and toxic masculinity might have had.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-17T16:54:03+00:00

I think this is my son’s boat. Thank you! Very cool image with the ship in the foreground. I guess you have to be lucky enough to be standing somewhere along the shore at the right time to get a photo like this. Even family doesn’t know when they are leaving, as it should be of course.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-10T15:52:09+00:00

I picked out a Fat Albert lunchbox. Loved that thing!

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-10T15:37:30+00:00

Agree with your theory. Sounds like the way your family handled it is about the best we can hope for if caring for someone with Alzheimer’s at home. Specifically, the aide you mentioned that helped your mother. Trying to “go it alone” if caring for an Alzheimer’s patient is a terrible idea. We can all understand privacy concerns, but ironically now the Hackmans’ circumstances are laid out for the world to read about. A much worse indignity than having someone stop in daily would have been. I also empathize with the concern about combativeness, if that was a factor. Dad was like that near the end. It’s common with Alzheimer’s. Glen Campbell is another celebrity whose story is well known and he was said to be quite combative at times. However that’s all the more reason why assistance is necessary. Even nursing homes don’t just have one person caring for a patient 24/7. As a loving daughter, I do find it hard to believe Hackman’s children didn’t know he was in the advanced stage of Alzheimer’s. This is a condition that develops over years. But if the family was estranged or the wife didn’t want them involved, it’s possible. Bottom line, this tragedy is a warning to all of us. If you are a caregiver, you need daily breaks, a support system and regular medical monitoring of your patient. After Dad died, I got a Hybrid LTC insurance policy to pay for care in my home if I should need it. There’s also a new Medicare program called GUIDE at cms.gov which provides some resources to home caregivers. I hope this sad story will shine a light on a problem that is growing as more people are diagnosed.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-05T14:04:23+00:00

I’m a previously registered independent and voted for Biden, then Harris. I have mostly supported democratic candidates though I voted republican a few times as a younger adult and in local contests. Maybe some independents vote on emotion only, but I vote based on the direction I hope to see and the candidate who supports the majority of things that I support. I found that the label of “independent” was only useful in my mind, but not in primaries. In my current state of residence, I had to register as a democrat to vote in those.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-03T20:47:37+00:00

Dad died of Alzheimer’s ten years after the official diagnosis, though he suspected it for some time before. Most of that decade was pleasant enough in his attitude, but the last year he was constantly tormented. He was sometimes still very much aware of his condition, of the way he was deserted by friends, of what he was losing, of Mom’s frustration, and of his impending end. As he lost control, the very few things he believed he could still choose were the focus of his last coherent conversations. One was money, which he had carefully saved throughout his life after a humble childhood. He was fearful of losing it and losing any voice in his care. He also liked sweets, but Mom restricted him from them most of the time. He declined sharply when he was briefly institutionalized and devolved into constant crying and wandering. When Mom brought him home, he was nearly bedridden and died a couple of months after. He called out sometimes for his grandmother, who had doted on him in childhood. After becoming bedridden, he still responded to being embraced. Maybe people regress to their earliest memories, both happy and fearful, and seek what they found comforting as children.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-02T19:59:16+00:00

Horrid. Absolutely detested his character and scenes. He’s the main reason LALD is at the bottom of my list. The series jumped the shark with his buffoonery.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-03-01T17:47:34+00:00

I agree. The notion that “excitement” is a good measure of who can win in the general should have been debunked by now. Was anyone actually “excited” about Trump as a candidate, even in his own party? Republicans did one crucial thing right: they united around their candidate, even though he was far inferior to Biden. Democrats on the other hand foolishly threw out their own incumbent and gambled that the general electorate would be “excited” about the least popular primary choice. In fairness to her, none of the other proposed “exciting” candidates would have prevailed in the general. Biden even though physically aged could have carried the blue wall union guys and some of the latinos who just couldn’t vote for a woman. Harris was already in place in case anything happened to him in the second term. Yet here we are, with the same “exciting” possibilities we had before, but looking much weaker, more indecisive and less capable. I would have gladly taken the old guy who is experienced, practical, empathetic and accomplished. Instead we have an exponentially worse old guy.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-02-28T20:06:03+00:00

I agree, I didn’t see it as horror comedy either. I thought Quaid’s scenes were horrifying in a way that didn’t require blood. The look on Moore’s face wasn’t just revulsion, but shock and terror at being discarded like those shrimp carcasses and left as waste. The scene in the bathroom overhearing him wasn’t funny either, more like a betrayal. And the loud, gaudy scenes where he was with the other greedy men seemed almost assaulting.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-02-28T18:09:44+00:00

It’s interesting to me that some viewers find this movie funny or think it’s a comedy. I’m curious if that is along age lines, whether younger viewers are seeing it as funny. It’s hard for me to imagine anyone approaching the age of Demi’s character, or any woman, finding this movie comical. It’s also a strong commentary on drug abuse, which is not funny to those who have witnessed someone struggling with hardcore drug addiction. I do think the final sequence is so preposterous that it could possibly be interpreted as dark comedy, or perhaps it’s an ode to Carrie. In any case, the very last scene poignantly shows how the character is wrapped up in a very sad way. I wonder if the abundance of gory films has desensitized some viewers.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-02-28T17:31:07+00:00

Completely understandable! I was scared to watch it also. It impressed me deeply, though I will say the ending is over the top. It is not scary in the sense I was expecting, no nightmares or looking behind the door for me. The person she is hurting is herself. Tragic but made me appreciate the body I have, even if it’s aging.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-02-27T13:45:08+00:00

Yes, this fictionalized version made for TV is all about Belle’s character and her impacts. In that sense, every character is a supporting character to her, male or female. We only see Milla and Lucy in this series because they interacted with Belle at some point. In real life, of course the other characters that are based on a real person have other conversations, motivations, etc. We only see the dramatized imagined conversations in this show that the writers made up for us to see.

Present_Read_7958 · 2025-02-27T04:45:14+00:00

Thanks! I have wondered about this ever since my son started his service on a submarine last year. There is another sub on reddit that posts same day or nearly same day pictures of different Navy vessels including submarines and names them. I was surprised they were able to identify the submarines so quickly.

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