Can you describe how you felt coming home from a deployment or combat?

Like the new guy all over again. So many new people in the unit who had settled in while we were gone and thought they ran stuff.

Alone, viloated, insulted
Viet Nam Vet

A sense of alienation…..the world I came back to was not real, the real world was the one I left in Iraq

I had mixed feelings for sure. Of course I was happy to see family and friends again, but I had no career, no relationship, and no home. I tried to get another deployment to have some direction, but that didn't work out. Eventually I got it figured out, but there were months of frustration...

Coming home after a military deployment felt great. I knew it would take some adjustments. I missed my family even though we stayed in contact through various medias. I really enjoyed reconnecting with family and friends after being away for so long. The changes and routines I had to get use to but just being with your love one made it easy.

Coming home after a military deployment felt great. I knew it would take some adjustments. I missed my family even though we stayed in contact through various medias. I really enjoyed reconnecting with family and friends after being away for so long. The changes and routines I had to get use to but just being with your love one made it easy.

Coming home after a military deployment felt great. I knew it would take some adjustments. I missed my family even though we stayed in contact through various medias. I really enjoyed reconnecting with family and friends after being away for so long. The changes and routines I had to get use to but just being with your love one made it easy.

weird, like you were living two life's

Happy to be home but it felt like I walked into a party where everyone was just talking about me. That awkward silence like I didn't actually belong.

I was always relieved to be coming back to land of the free after being deployed in the war zone. However, there was always anxiety about the lack of organization back in the US. After living such a routine based, discipline lifestyle, returning home always seemed chaotic for a good while after my return.