isn't bad enough. as if not knowing if you'll be alive the next day or not. if you'll have all of your limbs the next day or not isn't bad enough.
THIS
Long Iraq Tours Can Make Home a Trying Front IS bad enough
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
In the nearly two years Cpl. John Callahan of the Army was away from home, his wife, he said, had two extramarital affairs. She failed to pay his credit card bills. And their two children were sent to live with her parents as their home life deteriorated.
Then, in November, his machine gun malfunctioned during a firefight, wounding him in the groin and ravaging his left leg. When his wife reached him by phone after an operation in Germany, Corporal Callahan could barely hear her. Her boyfriend was shouting too loudly in the background.
“Haven’t you told him it’s over?” Corporal Callahan, 42, recalled the man saying. “That you aren’t wearing his wedding ring anymore?”
For Corporal Callahan, who is recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and so many other soldiers and family members, the repercussions, chaos and loneliness of wartime deployments are one of the toughest, least discussed byproducts of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and loved ones have endured long, sometimes repeated separations that test the fragility of their relationships in unforeseen ways. .........
a lot of these deployed men and women are reservists (not 'regular' service members). their families are used to them being away a weekend or a week or two here and there. NOT for 18 months. what about the bills they leave behind? the bills don't get put aside until their return.
divorce is up. domestic violence is up
.............The 101st Airborne Division recently returned from its second deployment with an astonishing level of rage, she said. “Now we are seeing 15- to 20-year marriages not making it, and these are families that survived 20 years of deployments,” Dr. Coe said.........
king george and his court are systematically destroying not only iraq (and the middle east in general) but OUR country too. REIN that man in. stand up as a country and say NO MORE
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I may have already mentioned it but I retired right before my National Guard unit was deployed to the Middle East. I kept in contact with several guys while they were away and once they came home. As the months passed I became aware of a huge number of issues being faced by the families that had a member serving in Iraq. Some were small and could be handled by a strong family support group in my unit. A great many were just as you wrote about, extramarital, in which the serviceman or woman would try to call in an army chaplain to help settle the matter only to find that chaplain less than helpful thinking less of the affected family and more of the army mission. (Like marital counseling could be done with husband and spouse thousands of miles away from each other.) But what I heard happening many times was that the affected people serving overseas would just agree with the spouse to wait until their return to try and settle the issue one way or the other. I tried to imagine serving in a hostile area just knowing that my family was going down the toilet with me many many months away from being able to do anything about it and I'm amazed that the people overseas are not going postal.
i knew you were in the service but i didn't know about your retirement info.
some of these people have been deployed to iraq THREE TIMES! i can't imgagine how much their families are suffering (not even counting how much the deployed person is suffering)\
we're not only destroying the iraqi civilization WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN as well
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