And from that point on, I made sure that he and I were connected at the hip for the rest of my deployment.
During our time in Afghanistan, not a single child was injured at our school, and for the last four months of my deployment, the school was a giant success.
I kept a clandestine profile for my last deployment on Nauru, basically waiting two weeks for the plane to fly in and rescue me from the island.
Or being eight months pregnant with our second child while I was leaving for my second deployment to Afghanistan in 2009, when all we could hope for was that we would see each other again.
One May afternoon back in 2006, though, a chance encounter with a Marine recruiter in my high school cafeteria changed the direction of my life, and little more than a year later I was on a plane headed for my first combat deployment in Iraq.
Nobody ever followed up with me to see how I was doing, not even for my "mandatory" post-deployment health reassessment.
"They too are in my thoughts as we prepare for this deployment.
Eventually my unit was scheduled for deployment.
The first Chinese-built carriers are not expected to be ready for deployment for several years.
Most respondents were prepared to be available for deployment for 1 month (34%, 20/59).
