> My DSIL comes home today! The USS Providence arrives at the submarine base
> in Groton around 2 this afternoon. They've been away since early February
> on what was supposed to be an ordinary deployment to the Mediterranean.
> Instead they left 10 days early and later were joined by two reporters. So
> if you read any news reports from a submarine during the war, it was from
> his boat. In fact, James was featured in one article about the radio shack
> He was deployed during the Afghanistan conflict, too. And he was the
> radioman on duty when the 9-11 news came through, so he was the one who
> decoded the message and had to give it to the captain.
>
> DD and the two DGDs are very excited. They will be waiting on the pier. I
> think we'll wait a day or two for him to catch up on his sleep before having
> them over. The shack was short-handed for the entire deployment and I know
> he's exhausted.
>
> Betty celebrating in CT
Good news! Enjoy his company.