That one might of been a morale booster.
As for her family being flown to port visits, I’m not even sure of the reason. There was no love loss between her parents and her. Or one of her other sisters and her. There were pass down instructions for the import OOD to never give her father honors. Screw that. In Gibraltar I certainly rendered honors for her father, a retired Navy Captain. He earned them, and I didn’t give a _hit what her pass down was. I was not going to stand watch and let him come aboard without rendering proper honors. She came screaming out of the hanger bay, asking “who in the _uck is standing OOD” and something about her pass down, blah, blah, blah. She saw me, stopped, sneered, said “oh, it’s you”, then went back in the hanger bay, her parents left standing wide eyed on the hanger deck. Crew not being allowed to email? How about the poor JO who’s wife had just had a baby, and she wouldn’t allow him to email her, or allow email to be transmitted to the ship? He ended up being kicked out of the wardroom for a period of time, because he went to her to ask if he could please at least send a quick one line email to his wife. Needless to say, all the officers followed him. All the officers were eating on the mess decks for while, and the enlisted loved it. Personally, I think the officers loved it too. They could finally relax, instead of listening to her screaming rages during a meal.