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Posted 07/19/2012 11:49 pm
Good Luck on the deployment. It sucks with the kids. I always hated that. And your parents are not much better either. Heck my Mom is in her 70s and sent her Dad, and Husband, Brothers and Son to War more than once and still cried on me the last time I told her I was deploying...and it was like my 4th deployment!
Do what I do, take that extra money and make up list of things you can buy with it. I mean your regular pay becomes tax free for a year, so there is extra money for the family.
Take one of your extra pay's like family sep (around $200? now isn't it?), or imminent fire, or hostile fire pay and buy yourself a goody each month. Trust me you need something to keep your spirits up too.Think about it. With two hundred dollars a month you could buy, except for the 09svdb, each key Linc cent by the time you get back. Or let it build for 4 months and get that nice 09svdb. Now is the time to do it. As one Soldier to another I find that maintaining a hobby while deployed is great on the mind. And nowadays we have lots of places set up with internet access. Or Satphones. Not like the old days when the only way to talk to someone was through snail mail. THAT SUCKED.
And trust me, when you get back you will/should have enough extra money to show the family a great time and take a great vacation with the leave you will accrue!
Joe
Do what I do, take that extra money and make up list of things you can buy with it. I mean your regular pay becomes tax free for a year, so there is extra money for the family.
Take one of your extra pay's like family sep (around $200? now isn't it?), or imminent fire, or hostile fire pay and buy yourself a goody each month. Trust me you need something to keep your spirits up too.Think about it. With two hundred dollars a month you could buy, except for the 09svdb, each key Linc cent by the time you get back. Or let it build for 4 months and get that nice 09svdb. Now is the time to do it. As one Soldier to another I find that maintaining a hobby while deployed is great on the mind. And nowadays we have lots of places set up with internet access. Or Satphones. Not like the old days when the only way to talk to someone was through snail mail. THAT SUCKED.
And trust me, when you get back you will/should have enough extra money to show the family a great time and take a great vacation with the leave you will accrue!
Joe
