Petty Officer 2nd Class Dmitri Rivera was on duty aboard the USS Gravely some 4,500 miles was on duty when his son, Omari, was born. Now, at Naval Station Norfolk, Rivera finally met his son.
“It got a bit tough about three months out,” Petty Officer 2nd Class Dmitri Rivera said that’s when Omari would have been about a month old. “When we got extended, that’s when it really hit home."