So it is about one week before my husband comes home and I’m trilled! I cannot wait to see him. Last week was a bit of a struggle. I don’t know why, but for me it is always about 2 weeks before he comes home that is a real killer. The time seems to literally […]

Here’s a nice post from an Army girlfriend frustrated because her boyfriend is home from deployment but they live in different places and she can’t see him yet. You can read her blog here. Yes Virginia…there is such a thing as PDB. My Army Acronym for Post Deployment Blues. I think mine are unique in […]

The last three times my husband deployed, we really didn’t have any trouble quickly getting back into the grove of things when he arrived home. Perhaps it was because we were younger, had less things to worry about and he didn’t have as much responsibility and stress as he did in his fourth deployment. I’m […]

By Barbara Rothschild / Courier-Post After the fireworks of July Fourth, South Jersey was the setting for a very special parade on Sunday. To celebrate the recent return of New Jersey National Guard members who had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — the largest deployment of the state National Guard since World War II […]

By David Davis / Cleveland Daily Banner Jessica Vines of Madisonville waited with spouses, other immediate family members and friends Friday afternoon at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Chattanooga as the 591st Transportation Detachment returned from a 12-month deployment in Iraq. “This is my first and hopefully my last deployment for awhile,” Jessica said. […]

My husband recently came back from Iraq after a seven month deployment. Even though this was our fourth deployment, I think this home coming was the most nerve racking of them all. It was the first time we had our own home while he was gone. So I felt a lot of pressure to have […]

By The Associated Press About 1,700 Hawaii National Guard soldiers are preparing to come home this summer from their Middle East deployment. The 29th Brigade Combat Team is expected home in August. Officials haven’t said when the unit will leave their Kuwait base. The soldiers were sent to Kuwait for nine months to provide security […]