The Reality Of Being During The Military - 2691 Words

The Reality of Being in the Military. â€Å"The soldier is the Army. No Army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country† by George S. Patton Jr. There are some people who are brave enough to put their lives on the line for their family and also their country. What happens after the battle that needed to be fought is over though? Do they just go back to their family and live happily ever after? From the outside looking in, one may only see just a man in uniform who fights for our country. They do not see the amount of time these soldiers spend away from their loved ones. They do not see the effects war has on not only them but†¦show more content†¦My first set of questions for Tim are about his deployments and how it affected him and his family. QUESTION #1- â€Å"How many times were you deployed? Where were you deployed and for how long?† ANSWER- â€Å"Three major deployments and one short term deployment. My first was Operation Desert Storm. It started off in Kuwait and then we moved to Iraq. I was gone about eight months and that was in 1990-1991. My second one was my short term deployment to Africa and we were gone about forty-five days. We were there to support a local population because their water was contaminated. The third deployment which was my second major deployment was in 2005-2006 to Iraq. I was there just under a year. I was supposed to be there a year but I had an injury and they sent me home a month and a half early. Then the last one before I retired was to Afghanistan and that was for thirteen months. I left December 2007 and I came home in January 2009.† QUESTION #2- â€Å"How was the transition from you being deployed to being home? Did you ever feel like after being gone for so long to being back home added stressors on your family?† ANSWER: â€Å"When you first come home everything is perfect. Everyone is so happy. After a while I started feeling out of place because my family had been taking care of themselves for so long and created a new life for themselves. Everything I was once doing before I left, they started doing on their own. It added stress