Trouble with kids, finances or a marriage can affect work, said Chief Fire Control Tech. Robert Griffin Sr., who finds that talking things out sometimes can help. But reading is good therapy, too. You get angry, frustrated, tired. In the insular hull of the Houston, it's common to see sailors take a slice of home to their bunks as they vanish from a land-locked world.
Crew members can receive e-mail messages, without attachments.
They're entitled to family-grams, written messages from spouses that run 40 words or less. There also is no TV or radio. McCarty hungers for fast food. It's enormous danger and enormous success, and all of it you have to hold in. That's true today.