gojira,
Believe it or not some of those shots were taken by a poster I met on this site back on 07. He was in from MI for the USNA grad., and blessed us with joining us for DS's commissioning.
That's the thing people don't understand about a site like this, the life of the military is very unique, and bonds are created through here because you both get the emotional rollercoaster ride that many of your friends and family will never completely comprehend.
Since joining this site. Bullet and I have met posters in person from this site.
Bullet has been honored by commissioning a poster from here at the AFA, back in 2010. He has become a part of our family, and I mean he acts like a sibling to them as if he was blood....especially taunting and teasing DD. We joke about how next yr Bullet and I will have 2 DS's at LAFB in UPT.
Never in 07 did I imagine that a poster would care enough about my child to take time out of his day (almost an entire day) to be there with us.
This site is like the military. The more you give to it, the more you will receive from it in return.
Bullet said it the best at DS's commissioning luncheon, we have been blessed with 2 families, our blood family and our military family, and sometimes they blend into 1 family.