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“There are two things a combat deployment offers which all of us strongly desire. The first, being purpose. Every morning we woke up and…

— Adam Fenner

Something has to give during a deployment and for me it's often punctuality.

— Brianna Keilar

We became consumed with preparing to go on a deployment, going on the deployment, coming back, and getting ready to go again. We stopped…

— Martin Dempsey

Deployments are nothing compared to sharing our whole lives together.

— Anonymous

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to…

— Brianna Keilar

When you get out of the military, all you are doing is a work-up for the longest deployment of your life.

— Dakota Meyer

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

— Sarra Manning

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

— John Betjeman

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time…

— Mark Pryor

From my perspective, to really be ready, we can't afford to have these deep degradations in readiness associated with personnel turbulence post-deployment.

— Joseph Dunford

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not…

— Nathaniel Fick

Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.

— Brianna Keilar