Quotes July 10, 2020

When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there when we got back. Well, it won’t be. If it is, some important questions need to be asked.
Adam Fenner
 
 
 
 
Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.
The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
Matthew J. Hefti
 
 
 
 
And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it’s good.
Phil Klay
 
 
 
 
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
I am a human rocket on a mission of deployment / I’ve been cocked and loaded, ready for the culmination / I am a human missile guided by a secret agenda / That commands my every thought and deed and wills me on my way
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh
 
 
 
 
A military service member can be deployed for a training exercise, peacekeeping mission, or to the middle of a warzone, so each deployment carries a unique set of circumstances that can affect the military member’s children in different ways.
Ron Avi Astor
 
 
 
 
A deployment involves a cycle of events with distinct features, set of experiences, and effects in each of at least 3 periods: pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment.
Deborah Harrison