First Pre-Deployment Brief
I went to my first pre-deployment brief last night. It was kind of overwhelming. The amount of information that was given seemed to be monotonous, but I’m sure they were only stressing that “We take care of our own”. There was a lot of outlets offering spouses help with deployments such as keeping the kids and yourself busy while your Marine is away. I’ll be honest. I zoned out on some of that stuff, but their intentions to reach out was clearly made and I love that.
However, what I was really more focused on was him. Where he’s going to be. His living conditions. How often will he get mail? I felt like I was in school again taking all these notes. And of course they talked about communication and what the procedure would be like should there be a causality. I teared up thinking about it. There’s always that fear. I’m sure fellow military spouses go through the same thing. They used a term that I learned for the first time and hope to never hear during this deployment….. RIVER CITY.
This will be his first combat deployment. I’ve been stressing about this a lot lately. It’s something I constantly try to push aside and not think about, but it’s difficult to do when the days are flying by at the speed of death and he’s constantly gone with training.
Even as I sit here and try to relieve some of this anxiety, I still don’t want to acknowledge the fact that he’s leaving - soon.
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I need to get back to work. I’ll mope after the holidays.
