How did you stay in touch with loved ones while you were deployed? Did you look forward those conversations?

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.

Back when I was in, we stayed in touch via good old snail mail. We really didn't have anything better than that. Even then, our mail was always delayed when we were at sea or elsewhere deployed.

Handwritten letters. Things were rather primitive in the "Old Days!!!"