i discovered in 05/06 that I have some rules during deployment. I think they are pretty good ones, so who knows why I’ve never written them down before this. But I have decided to do it.
1. Do NOT watch the news! Ok if you want to watch your local news, by all means do so. But do not, for the love of Pete watch the national stuff. At least not if you’re the worrying type. At some point you will here “x amount of troops killed in X country”. What does that do? It scares the living crap out of you. The problem is, it doesn’t give you enough information to comfort you, and it gives just enough information to scare you half to death. First of all, they don’t always mention the branch (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines), or the fact that SOMETIMES it is civilian contractors. Second, they often don’t tell you what region of X country, so you can’t say “oh, he isn’t there”. Sometimes it’s because they can’t give the information, other times it’s just how they operate.
Believe me, if something happens over there, you or if married, your loved one’s spouse is going to know within hours, and you will find out.
Repeat after me, No New is Good News, No News is Good News.
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