I admit, I have been beyond fortunate in the two deployments I have endured. Very rarely have I gone a day without some type of email, instant message, Skype date, or phone call, and if I did, I knew in advance.
We are coming up on the end of this year apart and for reasons I will not disclose, just to err on the side of safety, I did not hear from Brian for a couple of days. Right here and now I have to give major credit to the women who go for days, weeks, or months without hearing from their SO's. It is a difficult enough job to hold down the fort, but to not hear from them is pure torture. I found myself getting cranky and more impatient than normal. I knew he was fine, but like I said, I have been spoiled.
On a side note, at the end of a deployment there seem to be a lot of loose ends to tie up. Currently I am trying to close out my MyCAA benefits, which allowed me to use this time to further my education/skills. Of course, since I have not logged on for quite some time and the password they want you to use has to be over 16 characters long, include 2 upper case, 2 lower case, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters, I forgot, imagine that! So, then I had to get a special email to my AKO Webmail account which wasn't working properly, and once I finally got that working I had to change my password, make a phone call, resubmit some paperwork...it is not even 12:30 in the afternoon and I am exhausted! But, the good news is I thought I was going to have to pay close to $200 to make up the difference of the final bill but since things had gone the way they had, I was able to resubmit for the additional funds.
There are a lot of opportunities for those of us stateside during a deployment. I strongly urge anyone going through a deployment or preparing to, to take full advantage of the possibilities to further your own career or knowledge.
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