Six months can be a long time, especially if you’re thousands of miles from home and surrounded by strangers.  It’s even worse when you are surrounded by water as far as the eye can see.  On top of that, there’s no internet!  Such is the case of a sailor in the United States Navy.

Our sailor, let’s call him Popeye, is often out to sea for months at a time when on deployment.  His workday is twelve hours on with twelve hours off, with drills any time.  Popeye’s ‘home’ is a  100,000 ton aircraft carrier with a length equivalent to three football fields with over five thousand men and women on board; enough folks to populate a small town!  One big difference is that most small towns have satellite internet available to the folks who live there.