proud daddy... :)
been a busy summer...
at the end of june a chief petty officer reached out to rylee and asked her ot be a lead petty officer for a training in baltimore aboard the uss john brown. its a WWII liberty ship. i was like a chief requested ya, you can turn that down..lol she has done that training as a new cadet, again as a staff cadet and now as a lead petty officer.. they really like her there.
then in july she was in kentucky for a week for a photojournalism training. she loved that training.. its been the most organized one she has been to so far. they noted how she took charge when the lead petty officer wasn't around... pretty cool to see her doing that...
after being home from kentucky for 4 days she was off to michigan for a week to do marksmanship training. she now has her NRA certificates for a hand gun,rifle and shot gun.. she said that was a good one too... they noted that they would love to have her back as a staff cadet...
in july she also got promoted to petty officer first class making her the highest ranking cadet in her unit... lots more reponsibility now. she is learning how to deal with all the personalities and how she has to take charge.. she is a little too soft spoken for now.. i'm sure she will figure it out soon enough.. hell she is only 15 and they will put a lot on her.. the better she does the more they will pile on her... she can handle it.. just gonna be some growing pains along the way..
in sept she got a call from the adult in charge of the color guard. he asked her to round up a group for an event honoring gold star families.. aparantly he asked someone else to do it and they did nothing for a week..they were now only two weeks from the event.... he was super impressed with her having a text out within 20 minutes of them talking and getting three other cadets together to do this event. she even through together a sadurday practice the week befor the event.. he now says she is the honor guard commander..lol.. just what she needs, something else on her plate..
today we got to take a tour of the latest subnarine, the USS New Jersey... man is that is that cool... they asked the cadets if they could stay and help pack goody bags for its official commissioning this saturday.. three could stay and rylee was one of them. jamie and i along with another parent stayed late to help out.. it worked out well because before our ride back to the car they got to get a few pictures of them topside. no cameras allowed inside. they were supposed to get pics of the entire unit on it btu that didn't work out.. they tours were backing up and we had to go. the three that stayed got to the sub with no one around..
saturday they will be there in their dress blues for the official commissioning. they will hand out pamplets, water and help seat people... such an awesome experience for these kids.. not manuy classmates get to do anything like this...
rylee is the short one...:)
been a busy summer...
at the end of june a chief petty officer reached out to rylee and asked her ot be a lead petty officer for a training in baltimore aboard the uss john brown. its a WWII liberty ship. i was like a chief requested ya, you can turn that down..lol she has done that training as a new cadet, again as a staff cadet and now as a lead petty officer.. they really like her there.
then in july she was in kentucky for a week for a photojournalism training. she loved that training.. its been the most organized one she has been to so far. they noted how she took charge when the lead petty officer wasn't around... pretty cool to see her doing that...
after being home from kentucky for 4 days she was off to michigan for a week to do marksmanship training. she now has her NRA certificates for a hand gun,rifle and shot gun.. she said that was a good one too... they noted that they would love to have her back as a staff cadet...
in july she also got promoted to petty officer first class making her the highest ranking cadet in her unit... lots more reponsibility now. she is learning how to deal with all the personalities and how she has to take charge.. she is a little too soft spoken for now.. i'm sure she will figure it out soon enough.. hell she is only 15 and they will put a lot on her.. the better she does the more they will pile on her... she can handle it.. just gonna be some growing pains along the way..
in sept she got a call from the adult in charge of the color guard. he asked her to round up a group for an event honoring gold star families.. aparantly he asked someone else to do it and they did nothing for a week..they were now only two weeks from the event.... he was super impressed with her having a text out within 20 minutes of them talking and getting three other cadets together to do this event. she even through together a sadurday practice the week befor the event.. he now says she is the honor guard commander..lol.. just what she needs, something else on her plate..
today we got to take a tour of the latest subnarine, the USS New Jersey... man is that is that cool... they asked the cadets if they could stay and help pack goody bags for its official commissioning this saturday.. three could stay and rylee was one of them. jamie and i along with another parent stayed late to help out.. it worked out well because before our ride back to the car they got to get a few pictures of them topside. no cameras allowed inside. they were supposed to get pics of the entire unit on it btu that didn't work out.. they tours were backing up and we had to go. the three that stayed got to the sub with no one around..
saturday they will be there in their dress blues for the official commissioning. they will hand out pamplets, water and help seat people... such an awesome experience for these kids.. not manuy classmates get to do anything like this...
rylee is the short one...:)