Jason is home!!!!  Our family was finally reunited on August 10th after a long 7 month deployment.  I’ll let Jason write about his end of the deployment and homecoming, but we can all agree it is the best feeling to be a whole again.  Communication on the ship involved mostly email with a handful of [...]

A hard truth I have learned on this deployment is that being stranded on a boat for months and months is not a good place to be for a cyclist.  Now that I think of it, it’s not really a good place to be for anyone, but if you like to ride bikes on big [...]

If you haven’t heard already, Jason received orders to Pensacola, Florida this month.  We knew the orders were coming, but we were expecting to stay put for another year.  Of course the military always has it’s own plans, and we are so thrilled to be going back to one of our favorite locations thus far.  [...]

It appears Jason’s ship and the entire 24th MEU left Haiti on February 7th and are headed back toward the Mediterranean where they were originally scheduled to go.  There is an article here that talks about the impact Jason’s MEU has had on the relief effort in Haiti, and their current travel plans.
Some of the [...]

Interesting story with a happy ending.  Read about the baby found on Jason’s ship here.