Email from Ashley

(I'm posting Ashley's latest email for those of you that may not have received it. - Georgia)

I’m finally on my ship (USS Nimitz) on deployment. I just got my email address set up, so hopefully I’ll find some time to keep in touch with everyone. ashley.miller@cvn68.navy.mil

Work for me starts at 0715 and I get off around 2030-2100, head to work out, get ready for bed, crash out, and do it all again the next day. I’m working in Air department with the cameras and lighting used on the flight deck. So far I’m loving it!!

My address out here is:
IC3 Miller, Ashley
USS Nimitz CVN-68
AIR/V-2/VLA
FPO-AP 96620-2820

With mail, it takes awhile to get here, sometimes a month, sometimes more, sometimes less.

With e-mail, everyone says the trick is to number them. Sometimes they get lost in cyberspace on the way here or the way out.

Hope all’s well with everyone back in the real world! Keep in touch! J Much love!
Ashley

Keep up with me here!

Out in the MidEast on deployment. I'll try to be updating this blog when I can with what I can. If you want to keep up with what we're actually doing, you can check it out at the USS Nimitz website. (In case the link is broken: http://www.nimitz.navy.mil/)

I should be getting my ship's email address soon, as well as our physical address, so I will let you all know when I get them.

I'll be in Austin tomorrow!!! I should be getting in about noon, and I'll be on leave until October 9 when I'll head to Naval Station Coronado in San Diego.

Once I get to San Diego, I'll hopefully be headed out to meet the Nimitz over on their WestPac deployment and won't be back in the States until the spring.

Hopefully I get to see as many of you as possible while I'm home...looking forward to some down time before I get off and running again!

Graduation on Wednesday....I can't believe it's been 4 months...it
feels like the last week of senior year. I'm excited to move on to te
next thing, but I'm going to miss the friends I've made.

Here's a pic of the console we work on in class.

What my job looks like...

This is the system I'm going to school for right now...this is just the console portion of ILARTS....

020324-N-0659H-002 At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Mar. 24, 2002 -- Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Christopher Stough from St. Louis, MO, stands watch at the Integrated Launch and Recovery Television System (ILARTS). Petty Officer Stough is responsible for monitoring six of fourteen cameras covering the flight deck that make up ILARTS. Kitty Hawk is conducting work-ups in preparation for an upcoming extended underway period and is the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating out of Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class LaTunya Howard. (RELEASED)

42 days until I graduate from ILARTS. Almost done.

91 1/2 days left in Great Lakes.

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