Saturday, June 02, 2012

It would be cooler if he was wearing a jetpack

As most of you know, Dave left almost a month ago to accompany a detachment from his squadron, who are participating in an international naval exercise in the Baltic Sea called BALTOPS. He will be gone until mid-July, and no one should feel bad for him: as much as I pity those who are forced to travel across Europe, visiting countries they have never seen, shopping and sampling beer while calling it work, the humble officer wouldn't want that.

Anyway, Dave (who advanced from Lieutenant Junior Grade to Lieutenant on Monday, by the way!) e-mailed this morning to tell me that some Polish reporters arrived while they were in port to do a news bit on their ship, the USS Normandy. Since he was on watch at the time, he was selected to be on "Polish TV" (that's the best description he could give me). Pretty cool! He was interviewed about their helicopter, and his officer in charge found some photos from the article and e-mailed them to me.


 You stud, you.


Not half bad for a guy still in his probationary period.

9 comments:

storminomahoney said...

You must really miss him, Aloise.

Dave, way to earn some points :)

KBB said...

FINALLY something from and about Aloise and Dave! It's been almost a year since your marriage and I think this is the first post we've gotten.

My thoughts have been with you these past few weeks but I'm happy for email and video stuff that you 2 are able to do; a lot different from the days Dad sailed.

But Aloise....he really is having more fun than you are.

Congrats on the promotion, btw.

The Captain said...

And here I thought you had to make commander before you could stand around with your hands in your pockets. The good news is when you come up in July the board will convene and see about getting you off probation status.

Mars said...

Dave you are so super cool!

Maureen said...

way super cool!

Martha said...

Congratulations on the promotion, Dave! Can't wait to see you both in July.

Roob said...

Congratulations Dave!

Annie said...

Rad dude!!

Schmitty said...

Yeah, I'm kind of a big deal . . .