Greetings from the excruciatingly confined Adriatic Sea!
I’ve put another port behind me. I stayed a few nights in a seaside hotel in the little town on the island of Corfu. Lovely warm sun. I brought a group of 110 Albanian students aboard the ship for tours. Suitabley impressed they were.
On Easter, I was able to get a phone call through to my six-year-old son who spent the weekend at my Mom’s. This gave the ex a break too.
This week we’re steaming circles here off the coast of the Former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia. Presence operations and sustained flight ops are taking up a lot of our time.
The USS Mahan, a guided missile destroyer with my battle group, picked up a couple of Montenegrins today. Their powerboat sank six days ago. I guess it could be worse for me out here!
I handled the press release and coordinated some of the assistance. Your Chief, hard at work.
Monday, we pull into Debrovic, Croatia – the first U.S. carrier to do so in more than a decade. I’ll be involved with a lot of the community relations projects, ship tours and handling visits by the Croatian president, prime minister and U.S. Ammbasador to Croatia. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to sample the local cuisine, but it doesn’t look too good right now.
Glad to hear from you, Chief. I hope you have a lot of fun there, well, as much as you can anyway. I also hope that you get to sample some of the local cuisine, as long as it isn’t dog.
Take care, and keep in touch.
You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming.
Og Mandino
That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.<a true Wally original!>
Ahem I am quite sure that I don’t know, Chief! :o
Anything else I thought of adding would only get me in trouble, so I’ll just try to quietly slip off, and tiptoe back out of the room…
