I’m so excited that ROMANCING
THE MILITARY MAN releases today!!!
Most everyone knows someone in the military—a family
member, a friend or a loved one. Military men and women make many sacrifices
and so do their families. Please feel free to share your loved one’s name in my
comments so we can all send them good wishes, thoughts and prayers.
In our collection of stories we each have a romantic and
adventurous story with a military hero. Each story is different so there should
be something for everyone if you like these types of stories. At the beginning
of the box set, we have the name of the book, the author and a blurb so you can
go directly to the ones that interest you the most.
Please
share your real life story with your military hero here!
Here’s
one of mine: Military friend Rick and Dan- Navy and scuba instructors
I could share a few, but today I was remembering two Navy
guys I worked with in Florida. Rick and Dan. Before I met them, when I was a kid we
lived by a lake and I was a fish. You couldn’t get me out of the water. I’d
swim all day until my lips were blue and my mom would yell for me to get out. My
dad was a Navy diver and he let me use his equipment in the lake without formal
training (he was there and watched me). This was the old double hose regulator,
a mask that leaked because it was too big of course, fins too big also so I had
to scrunch my toes or they would fall off. With my dad’s scuba gear all hooked
up, I swam around the lake underwater like I was part fish and made believe I
was a mermaid.
Then many years later, as an adult and living in Florida,
I decided to take up scuba and get certified. I figured scuba diving would be a
piece of cake. I did it as a kid with ancient equipment so this should be easy,
right? Wrong! I was a klutz, kept sucking in water, couldn’t get my buoyancy right.
With practice though, I did get my confidence and skills down and kept taking
classes.
Rick and Dan encouraged me and I became a dive master,
then helped to train other students. As a dive master, I had to assist several
distressed divers and had a couple scary rescues in the ocean. Some months Rick
and Dan would be deployed and I wouldn’t see them. Then one day while I was
living in Fort Lauderdale, FL, I got a call. Their ship, the USS Eisenhower, an
aircraft carrier, was coming into port. They wanted me do go out on a dive as
their dive master. They were finishing advanced training with a number of guys
on the ship. Not Navy Seals, just regular scuba lessons for PADI certification.
We did the dives off of Ft. Lauderdale and got the guys
their certifications. Afterward, Rick asked me for a favor with his smirk that
I knew well. (I’d worked with these guys for years and they were good friends).
I thought he wanted me to do another class tomorrow. Nope. He wanted to know if
these guys could come back to my apartment to shower so they could go out that
evening for a little nightlife. Fort Lauderdale does have plenty of that. I
told him I only have a one bedroom apartment and one bath. There were eight
guys plus Rick and Dan! He assured me they would be perfect gentleman and it
would be fine. They guys didn’t want to go back to the ship. I said I’d be
happy to have them over if they didn’t mind sharing the one bathroom.
Rick laughed. He said they were used to close quarters on
the ship.
It was early so I invited them to hang by the pool. Ha! I got some interesting looks and envious
ones at that when I walked through the pool gate in my apartment complex
followed by ten hunky Navy guys in bathing suits!!!
We ordered a pile of pizzas and the guys started getting
ready to go out. I said don’t worry I’ll clean up and the guys said, “No, we
got this. Go sit.”
I watched in awe as two guys went into my bathroom at a
time and came out in record time, cleaned, shaved, and changed, while the
others cleaned my kitchen, washed dishes, put them away, took out the trash,
even washed the counters and kitchen floor!
After ten hunky Navy guys went through my bathroom, I
figured I’d have a mess in there. I didn’t mind, these guys were nice and even
called me, “Miss Kathy.” Bless their hearts.
They thanked me when they left and
gave me hugs. When I checked out the bathroom, I was shocked. You would never
have believed that 10 guys just took showers, shaved, etc. It was spotless. Not
one drop of water on the floor, no soap remnants in the shower or sink. Every
towel neatly folded.
Great times diving with Rick and Dan. I even got a tour
on the USS Eisenhower. But then that’s another story…
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