Talking/ communicating with family members is a nice luxury, and has been done for decades through SECURE channels so as to not endanger troops in the field.
If someone can not stand to be out of contact with their friends and family for extended periods of time, they need to find another line of work. I hear the Postal service is hiring.
I hear the Navy is real open about the swabbies using their sat phones and GPS units on the carriers so their families always know exactly where they are......NOT! And 80% of the carrier forces aren’t even involved in the ME expedition, they are essentially on peacetime patrol.
You sound like someone who knows a little about WWII and has heard a few stories, probably on FR, about how the military does things overseas. Have you done a tour in Iraq and/or Afghanistan? Or are you just another keyboard commando trying to tell us that if only you were in charge, this war would’ve been won long ago?
Oh, and your assertion that Sailors have no outside contact from their ships is utterly ridiculous.