Posted on May 19, 2017
How did you stay in touch with loved ones while you were deployed? Did you look forward those conversations?
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Posted 7 y ago
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Posted 7 y ago
Its good to see that troops in current times do have ways to communicate that We didn't when I served in Viet Nam, letters was the only way to keep in touch then. My Mom had kept every letter I sent the entire time I was stationed in the Republic of Viet Nam in 1968-69. We had to write the word Free in the upper right hand corner where a stamp would have been and there was no cost to mail a letter home. My return address was an APO anyway.
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Posted 7 y ago
Story for you.
My second deployment, I was in Afghanistan. A few weeks after boots on ground, my daughter was born, and Skype was my best friend. I called every chance I got and watched her grow to be almost a year old through the slightly fuzzy video courtesy of a shaky internet connection that linked two machines thousands of miles apart.
I'm not saying it was the ideal situation, but I would have missed so much more had I not taken advantage of it when I could.
Long story short: Do anything and everything to stay apart of their world. Letters, Skype, Phone, carrier pigeon, doesn't matter. You'll be glad you did.
My second deployment, I was in Afghanistan. A few weeks after boots on ground, my daughter was born, and Skype was my best friend. I called every chance I got and watched her grow to be almost a year old through the slightly fuzzy video courtesy of a shaky internet connection that linked two machines thousands of miles apart.
I'm not saying it was the ideal situation, but I would have missed so much more had I not taken advantage of it when I could.
Long story short: Do anything and everything to stay apart of their world. Letters, Skype, Phone, carrier pigeon, doesn't matter. You'll be glad you did.
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It’s good to know modern advances are good for something. I envy you the communication back home but I don’t envy you for being in the situation. Essayons!
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Posted 7 y ago
My first deployment to Iraq was mostly letters, with a few scattered calls on a satellite phone. Late in the game we got a little internet cafe set up, and we considered ourselves spoiled at that point.
The second time around I still wrote letters, although we had access to internet and phones.
Contact with those back home made deployment more bearable without a doubt, and also reaffirmed just how lucky I/we have it back in our regular lives.
The second time around I still wrote letters, although we had access to internet and phones.
Contact with those back home made deployment more bearable without a doubt, and also reaffirmed just how lucky I/we have it back in our regular lives.
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