USS Reagan's Supply Department Recognizes Mothers with Special Meal

Navy NewsStand ^ | Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Kevin S. O'Brien

[SandRat]

A Special Mother's Day at Sea!

[ansel12]

God help us.

[Drew68]

Culinary Specialists, food service attendants and members of the ship's 3 & 2 Association provided the special lunch which included shrimp cocktail, “surf and turf,” and a cheesecake dessert.

Food on a Nimitzclass aircraft carrier is surprisingly very good. I know. I've been eating it morning, noon and night for the last month.

[SandRat]

Then let this old retired dog-face say thank you to you and all your shipmates.

Do your ship's Journalist Mates and Photographers Mates know about FR?

You might want to introduce them to it and us.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

My niece complains that the food aboard ship is TOO good--she keeps having to fight temptation. (I tell her that it builds character. She said that anybody related to her Uncle BeHoldAPaleHorse is a character--and probably a suspicious one at that!)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Women aboard warships with men are the worst idea since screen doors on submarines. I wonder how many of the women became mothers during the cruise.

[al baby]

For me everyday is mothers day

[skepsel]

The Love Boat?

[Doctor Raoul]

The Love Boat?

That was the USS Norton Sound.

[Drew68]

I wonder how many of the women became mothers during the cruise.

It happens pretty regularly. On 6 month deployments, restriction musters grow larger as time passes with more females joining the ranks. Lots of "Unduly Familiar Relationship" charges at Captain's Mast.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Nice gesture...but a totally insane set of circumstances.

[miliantnutcase]

If she likes that food she would love the grub aboard a submarine. The BEST in the Navy.

[Vision]

You're killin' me

[Drew68]

My niece complains that the food aboard ship is TOO good--she keeps having to fight temptation.

LOL! It's true! I never eat more lobster tails and T-bone steaks than when I am at sea. Yet I still hear complaints from some of the younger sailors. I always tell them that there is a Marine somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan who would gladly trade his cold MRE for some hot navy chow so stop complaining about the food!

Though it never fails. Whenever I step foot off the boat at Norfolk, the first place I head is to the McDonald's right across from the pier.

[cva66snipe]

Me thinks me was in another Navy.

[cva66snipe]

I think part of this is explainable {I hope}. A tradition on carriers called a dependents cruise. A trip more or less from N.O.B. that morning out to sea for about 4-6 hours and pulling back in before dusk. They get an air show from a couple of squadrons doing fly-bys etc. The sailor is completely responsible for behavior of all he brings aboard ship.

[Elsiejay]

A very sick nation takes mothers away from their very young children and sends them to places where it is impossible for them to perform the most important tasks of their entire lives, while also endangering their lives.
This pathological condition will in time result in severe, possibly lethal harm to our society.

[cva66snipe]

Feel lost like you entered a room that's not so brightly lit LOL. Read the rating names.

[Sarastro]

Whether it's a good idea to have women on a warship or mothers away from their kids are policy-level decisions to be made upstairs. But these women have made personal decisions to enlist to serve their country AND THEY DESERVE TO BE HONORED FOR IT. They certainly have my thanks!