AT SEA, NEW DAD HASN'T MET HIS SON.Byline: - Daily News While serving on the Coast Guard Carrier Boutwell WHEC WHEC High Endurance Cutter (USCGC) WHEC Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WHEC Wester Hailes Education Centre (Edinburgh) WHEC Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council 719 in the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. , Firefighter Ryan Ryan may refer to: Places
Kimberly Milligan gave birth to Chasen Rayne Milligan on March 30. The new recruit weighed in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces and stood tall at 20 inches. Kimberly Milligan said the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. got the news to her husband on his ship and provided a satellite phone for him to call her on April 2. Digital pictures have been sent to the new dad, but Kim hasn't heard whether he's had a chance to see the photos of his new son. Along with sharing the joy of their new arrival, Milligan gave his wife the news that that his deployment has been extended three months because of the war. He was originally scheduled to return home in July, but will remain at sea until October. Milligan joined the service the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Washington, D.C. He tested well for the Army's Ranger program The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. , but was talked into joining the Coast Guard instead because his mother and his then-girlfriend thought it would be safer. The couple married on March 28, 2002, right after he graduated from basic training. Milligan's grandfather was in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. His mother thinks that enlisting has given her son a purpose he didn't have before the attacks. ``It made him grow up a lot. He was the kid that never took anything seriously until he saw (the Sept. 11 attacks). Then our whole lives changed,'' mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. Terrie Milligan said. ``In a way it was good; he settled down.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Kimberly Milligan, 18, above, watches her new son, Chasen Rayne Milligan, born a week ago while his father Ryan serves aboard a carrier in the Persian Gulf. Left, Kimberly and Ryan in a 2000 photo. Father and son won't meet until October, when Ryan's tour of sea duty is scheduled to end. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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