Just about every wife I know has a shared fear: That their husband will be sent on a long deployment. Other fears stem from that, depending on the length and type of deployment, but mostly these fears are unrealized. There is an understanding that as an Air Fore wife, you won't have to endure "too long" or "too dangerous" a deployment on average, and you can systematically tick the time away. Well, at least that is what I understood. Who knows, stupid AF.


It seems that every so often (or apparently more frequently than that,) people in the military are told that they are to pack up their bags and knock up their ladies, because they are off to concurrent training and subsequent war for - oh, say a year... or more. "Okay... GO!" - You have a week to report.

There is another understanding about such situations among military wives: You can't complain when it happens to you. You can just deal. You can mow the lawn and wash the car and take out the trash and.... well, you know, whatever your husband does. Except shoulder rides - there is no way most Moms can do that, and try explaining your own lack of actual, physical ability to a 4-year-old who considers the sudden lack of shoulder rides to be the single worst thing about Daddy leaving.

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