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Wow I would seriously rip a new one in him if he ever did that to me lol My hubbie already is barley home with the job he has. Good luck to your family. How long will he have to do this?

As an enlistee or an officer? I thought the older you are the more hesitant you'll be in joining the military especially if with no prior experience and as an enlistee.

Hi there. I have to say, that would have thrown me for a loop myself! I married into the military, so I knew what I was asking for going in, but to be thrust into after years of marriage would be tough. Even going in like I did, it is still hard. I do everything I can to support him and his line of work, but right now he is deployed and all I want is for him to be here. And don't ever worry about feeling selfish. We married our men because we wanted them in our lives, so it is not selfish to want them here with us - it is perfectly normal. And having children only deepens the desire for them to be around as a constant. It is just a fine line we walk as military wives...a fence we straddle daily trying to balance support for them on side, and our needs and desires on the other. The benefits for the wife on my end are that my husbands job allows me to stay at home and take care of things. I can work if I want, but I do not have to. I also enjoy a great deal of pride in knowing that he has the character and even the valor to make the choices he has made and provide the service he has to our country. Yes, we worry daily, and I don't know about your religious background or faith, but I honestly have relied on God daily to get me through every moment of it. Without that belief that ultimately God is in control, I would have gone insane. I wish you the best, and feel free to add me as a friend...we all stand together or we fall together!

You and your family will certainly all be in my prayers! I've often wondered, especially since this awful war has been going on, how I'd react if I had a husband or child in the military at this time. I doubt that I'd handle it well at all! I do have 2 nephews who will be deployed in January and that's driving me crazy. I see it's been 8 months since this post was made so alot could have happened since then. I hope you've gotten good news and learned that he ISN'T going to be deployed anytime soon and maybe this war will be over before his time comes! I have to ask...did your husband join because he supports the war and Bush or for some other reason? I keep hearing some people say the entire military is all for this Administration's policies but then I've heard first hand from others that that's not the case. No matter what, I can assure you that I DO support our troops 100% even though I quite frankly can't stand the Dimwit in Chief. I hope everyone reading this will contact their Senators and Representative in Congress and tell them to make sure our troops are finally provided with the armour they need to protect them. If you've followed the debates you know that the reason some of the Democratic presidential candidates voted to continue to fund the war is because they didn't wish to keep the equipment from them any longer! And everyone please don't forget to VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!