Letter from the USS George Washington

email | 5-26-04 | cgk & a sailor

[cgk]

Wanted to share this letter with FR. This is an email from one of our 4 adopted sailors/soldiers.

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thanks for the package. i shared it with a few of the guys in my berthing. we all appericate the gifts alot. i wanted to personaly say thanks and how much i appericate the package. sometimes it does seem like we are out here and no one back home remembers us. when someone like ya'll speak out we all know that we are not forgotten.

I am a 20 year vet, retiring next march. i am an electrican by trade but also obtained a certification to operate the nuclear power plants the navy has on the carriers. i have been on the USS Enterprise, Theodore Roosevelt, Nimitz, and helped build the Ronald Reagean. currently i am on the USS George Washington. I also spent 2 years on a small cruiser out of alameda CA call the Texas. i have several duties onboard QA inspector, shipboard firefighter, Maintenance mananger. currently i am in charge of coordinating and scheduling all maintenance on the power plants. keeps me buried in paperwork about 4 days a week.

i am orginally from tennessee. a small town in the mountains. my life's dream is to move back and take ove the family farm. i married my high school sweetheart and have been married for 20+ years. i have one child a daughter, she turned 18 and got married this year. her husband is currently at army boot camp. she is living at home with my wife until he graduates. well drop me a line wehn you can. i would love the penpal. helps make the day go by out here to get mail

we are currently off the coast of iraq flying plane sin support of the army. heat index her on the ship runs 105-115 daily. and about ever 10-14 days we have a sandstorm blow off the coast and cover the ship in sand.

hope to hear from you soon

tim

[cgk]

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sometimes it does seem like we are out here and no one back home remembers us. when someone like ya'll speak out we all know that we are not forgotten.

This is why we adopted someone we didn't know. To let them know we care.

[cgk]

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[Auntbee]

My nephew was assigned to the George Washington. He's not on it now but is fiancee is. Praying for a safe return.

[Johnny Gage]

Letter from a Sailor bump!

[cgk]

God Bless your nephew and niece-to-be!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"sometimes it does seem like we are out here and no one back home remembers us. when someone like ya'll speak out we all know that we are not forgotten."

Support the troops PING

cgk : Thank You for caring!

Will You help keep the Candle Lit for our service men and women?
Can you spare a few moments today to either
e-mail them or learn about sending packages to them?
Many of them are away from home for the 1st time.
PLEASE Click on the graphic and help cheer them up.
You will stay right where you are on this thread while you write them.
Thank You
Postmaster
FR Canteen Post Office

[MoJo2001]

Thank you so much for sharing your email!

If anyone else is interested in "adopting" a Sailor off of the USS George Washington or your interested in any for the future, please FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska. Grammie's gonna be busy for the next few days and won't be available.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[sneakers]

One of my co-workers's sons is serving on the George Washington. He's 34. Been in the Navy since he was fresh out of high school. God Bless him and all our service men and women. I'll have to pass on a copy of that e-mail to her.

[stand watie]

bump.

[FourPeas]

Good going, guys. I have a friend with the George Washington Strike Group, on the Vella Gulf. I hadn't heard about the sand storms. It's nice to get any news I can from there 'bouts.

[cgk]

If you'd like I can pass your friend's name on, and perhaps can get you linked up. :)

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[blackie]

Great Letter ~ Bump!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

cgk, thanks for posting this great letter, and for supporting our Sailors.

A 20 year Veteran, nuclear qualified electrician who married his childhood sweetheart, dreams of running the family farm, and volunteered to spend time away from his full life, to help us out in Iraq...those who say there are no role models in America need to turn off the TV and move away from the big cities, lol. God bless Tim!

Tonkin, thank you so much for pinging me to military news. Sure is nice to be in the passenger seat, cheering on the troops, and Veterans.

Special hello to IT2 JC, and for Zak.!

Thanks, also, cgk, for giving me an excuse to post this awesome pic: (^:

[blackie]

Support out Troops and our Veterans ~ Bump!

[SAMWolf]

Navy Aviation Bump

[RottiBiz]

Thanks for posting, cgk. Very nice letter.

God bless and protect all of our servicemen and women and the rest of the Coalition forces, too.

[RaceBannon]

I have been in the Arabian Sea back in 80 and 81, it was HOT out there!

Also, on the Okinawa, we didn't have all boilers running, we had only 3 out of 5 running, and that meant SHOWER HOURS or salt water showers.

We even had separate hours where we could drink from the water fountains, we had JP-5 coming out of one water fointain in the snake pit once!

[Bottom_Gun]

great post..NavyGal and I send care packages to some of her former shipmates onboard the USS Wasp LHD-1. they keep asking for more of the Texas pete hot sauce *L*.