There's no day like Homecoming! And one of my favorite activities to do leading up to the special day is making a Homecoming sign. Whether you want to hold the sign up at the pier or in your front yard, Homecoming signs can be such a fun and sweet way to celebrate the special day. [...]
If you're so lucky to experience it, shore duty (or a common freudian slip short duty), is a blessed period of time when your sailor has a job (you guessed it) on shore. Depending on the role, they likely are not experiencing any underways or extended periods away from home. Shore tours can last as [...]
OK, let us start by saying that you don't need to buy anything. But we asked dozens of spouses what products brought them joy during deployment, some tangible items, some not. So, in no particular order: 1. RED Friday Shirts Encourage your friends and family to wear RED (Remember Everyone Deployed) on Fridays and share [...]
By Guest Author Erin Gregor Last holidays, our team here at The Submerged Life put together a great holiday gift guide! However, giving gifts to sailors about to go on patrol, deployment, or a longer underway poses some special challenges. They have limited time on land to use things like vouchers or spend time on [...]
Darla Vieyra has experienced over 20 years of deployments with her submariner. But it was her husband's first deployment after having children that sparked her inspiration. Darla realized there was a lack of positive, encouraging deployment-based items for military families. So she launched Homefront Heroes, LLC! Her small business sells an original Deployment Journal and [...]
Boomer life. The good life. Family-friendly. Part time sailor life as you only "own" the boat for half the time. For those unfamiliar with "Boomers", SSBNs, or ballistic missile submarines have two crews that take turns taking the boat to sea. There is a short period of maintenance, “refit," between each "patrol” where both crews [...]
With Valentine's Day around the corner, you may or may not be dreading the day with your sailor out at sea. Like all other holidays on the calendar, we know how to pivot and celebrate by ourselves or table the occasion when we can be together again . But Valentine's Day always stings a bit [...]
