The USS Milius pulled out of its home port of San Diego yesterday for a six-month deployment. The guided-missile destroyer is headed out to the western Pacific. The USS Milius is unique in that its Commanding Officer is a woman, CDR Nikki Bufkin.
Saying goodbye is never easy, and that's especially true when you're saying goodbye to someone you love for six whole months. This Navy mom from Modesto, California had the double difficulty of it being her son's first full deployment:
