By Chris Bray, PhD, veteran Army infantry sergeant Families do this. It’s normal. Also, it’s usually unnecessary and misguided. A video on the New York Times website features the family members of a sailor at sea on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, and the story frequently descends into the realm of parody. Note the captioning on this screenshot from the paused video: People who enlisted in the U.S. Navy didn’t sign up to be on a ship in the ocean, o…