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Thanks mate, it's not the easiest topic for me to write about however I have a try; I'm glad it came out ok.

It did, I never got "Deployed", but we all were ready. Sitting in a hanger for two days, not knowing if your company was going to be called up, but isolated, no calls no departure from the hanger, just sitting and waiting.

Like waiting for a bus but way worse.

I wanted to convey the difficulty that the families left behind go through to some degree but I'm not sure I captured that so well; I'm considering writing another but from her perspective. That's be a challenge I think.

I think that would be a good challenge.