Do you have a DEPLOYED loved one?

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My 23 year old brother, a marine, will soon be deployed into a combat situation. We don’t know yet if it will be before or after Christmas.

Anyway, he leaves behind his one year old daughter, Ella (who began walking today, yay!!!) and his mother and sisters who are all worried about him!!! (Dad is a former Air Force sergeant, so he is much calmer and collected about it ;)).

So, aside from asking for prayers for his safety (and the safety of all our troops) what has it been like for all of you who have deployed family members overseas? Do you get much contact with your family member? How have you handled the stress of constantly wondering if he/she is safe? What sort of support is there for this?

My youngest sister (who still lives at home) told me she is more worried about how my mother will handle it, rather then what will actually happen to my brother. My mom tends to be EXTREMELY anxious over the safety of her children. She will be glued to Fox news from now until the time he comes back.

Any thoughts (and definitely prayers) are appreciated. I know there are thousands and thousands of families missing their deployed loved one, but it’s so interesting how you just can’t picture the true experience until it happens to your family.

Abby
 
My husband is a sailor and is deployed right now! He wont be home until April 1st. It is just me and our daughter living at home. With the Lord , time will go by fast! I think it will help our spiritual life and relationship with our Lord.
 
My son’s godfather, Ron, is currently in Baghdad. Given that he works for the State Department in a highly classified manner, we have no idea what he’s doing, how long he’ll be there, et cetera, et cetera. He’s got one of those jobs where he isn’t allowed to be photographed by the media, as an example of how classified his work is. In fact, news that he was in Iraq was a surprise since last we heard Ron was still in Afghanistan.

God bless you and keep you, Ron, and everyone else as well, of course.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
No one in my immediate family is deployed, but a good friend’s daughter just left for Baghdad on Friday and her (daughter’s) husband, in a different unit, is going as well. I am extremely anxious, especially for her husband who is guarding convoys, a very dangerous job. This woman is very faithful and strong, and I am humbled by that. I wonder if I could hold up in such a situation…

God Bless,
Nicole
 
my baby brother… in bagdad… in that Abu Grahib prision… i probably spelled it wrong… just got word he’s on the move… i wish they would nail his feet to the floor of that prison behind those walls… :cool:
 
My daughter is a Navy pilot and she just returned from her first deployment to the Persian Gulf in the end of August. I will tell you that the time she was deployed was difficult for me. I prayed non stop, I joined bible study, and I listened to FOX most often because the MSM was terrible at best. They were very anti american and not a comfort at all.

My daughter was able to email fairly often, but that depends on where you are deployed. Many are not able to email so often. When I didn’t hear for days on end and the news was filled with beheadings, I was a wreck. I did have an email buddy-another mom of a sailor on her ship.

It helped me tremendously to take action. I mailed a package to her every Wednesday. I spent time picking out what I thought would be of interest to her and a comfort to her. I started a prayer group that sent messages to her with timely prayers. She was very grateful.

I will keep your brother in my prayers as well as the rest of your family. Stick together and pray often. It was almost all that got me through. I will have to say I was hurt when the church didn’t always pray for our soldiers. I did write her into the book at the back of church every time I went there. I don’t understand now even why they just couldn’t include all those who were deployed in prayer at every mass. Just my opinion. I think it would have been a comfort. Some parishes do a better job than others.

You will find out who your friends are. Just a warning. Some people are a little calous, and they get political when you just want support. Come to the forums and let us know and we will all pray and offer support. I promise.

My daughter will be deployed again to the Persian Gulf next year but doesn’t have a definite date yet.
 
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My husband is a sailor and is deployed right now! He wont be home until April 1st. It is just me and our daughter living at home. With the Lord , time will go by fast! I think it will help our spiritual life and relationship with our Lord.
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I will pray for the safe return of your husband. Let us know his name so that we can pray for him specifically. I will pray for you and your daughter too.
 
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my baby brother… in bagdad… in that Abu Grahib prision… i probably spelled it wrong… just got word he’s on the move… i wish they would nail his feet to the floor of that prison behind those walls… :cool:
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I have your brother in my prayers. You too!
 
Dear Friend Princess Abbey:

All I can say is WOW–what courage in a loved one!!!

I’ll keep them in my prayers!!! And God Bless You too–

have you heard of the Rosary group which makes Rosaries for our troops abroad? I want to get involved in it!!!

think the site is www.rangerrosary.com

God Bless~~
 
I stand in awe of the courage of those folks serving - but also for those family members ( moms, dads, sweethearts, siblings, loyal friends) who are coping at home, praying and waiting for loved ones to return.

You are all heroes.
God bless you all and may He keep a close watch over your loved ones so they can perform their duties safely.
 
My husband will be deploying in early '05. We have three little ones. So far we have been lucky that this is the first one-year deployment for us. Have had six month ones before so I am used to at least that much time. Looks like this is the beginning of our year in, year out cycle.

Thanks for all your prayers.
 
My prayers are offered daily for all the troops, government employees and contractors who are there. My son retired from the Air Force and is now working for a government contractor at a nearby military installation. He returned safely (thank God) in July from a deployment to Afghanistan and expects to go to Baghdad early next year. I worried about him less when he was on active duty. At least then he had something to shoot back with and now he is required to be unarmed. Please keep him in your prayers also.

Thanks and God bless.
 
Thank you for all of your shared experiences and compassionate responses. It is always good to know we are not alone in missing and/or worrying about our loved ones.

I’m sure I’ll be PMing some of you when he is gone and I find myself worrying.

I’ve already gotten some weird responses from people in my “real” life, who almost minimize what the troops are doing and because they haven’t been touched by it themselves, seem sort of apathetic. But, many are genuinely supportive and thankfully don’t start a pointless debate about the politics behind the war…which to me is totally irrelevant and I’m tired of hearing how they “shouldn’t” be here or there or wherever: they ARE there, so the last thing I want to think about is a loved one’s life being part of a “wasted effort.” grrr.

Thanks, too, for the prayers. I will keep all of your loved ones in my prayers, every night–if you want to post names, please do.

My brother’s name is Mike. 🙂
 
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