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Well, I very well could mean the same ones just deploy over and over again, but aren't they doing that anyway? For families like mine it means that instead of my husband being gone for 15 months, he can come home after 12. 3 months can make a big difference. When a soldier has to leave his family and watch his kids grow up over a webcam for a year, it makes a big difference. For myself, it could mean the difference between my family being together for Christmas or him being gone again this year for the holidays.
Not to mention the fact that it could very well be in that last 3 months that he could hit an IED and be killed. A lot can happen in 3 months time you know. So for anyone to say it means nothing means they've never had to really sit and think about it. If you are a soldier yourself or have a close family member that is one, you should know yourself how important that time can be. It means that much less time for the wife to have to worry day and night wondering if she's going to get that dreaded knock at the door and open it to a man in his dress uniform informing her her husband has been killed, or that late night phone call saying her husband is injured. It's that much less time that I have to wonder if the conversation I just had with him is going to be my last. Or if my 9 month old will ever know his father.
Every second of the day is torture when they're gone, so when you look at it from that point of view, 3 months is a very, very long time. If they're going to get deployed over and over again no matter how long they keep them there, then why not be happy that they'll at least have 12 mths. on and 12 off instead of 15 on and only 12 off.
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