Hello

Well this is the first of many posts I'm sure. I got married just over a month ago to the man of my dreams. We have known each other for about three and a half years. I am twenty-one years old and he is twenty-two, so we are definitely young, but being young is definitely not out biggest challenge. In about five weeks my husband will leave for Fort Sill, OK and begin training to deploy to Iraq sometime late this summer. He was transferred to a unit that had received orders in September because they didn't have enough of his MOS. This meant that while it his fellow soldiers and their families had a full year to prepare for deployment we had about six months. We decided almost immediately that we wanted to get married before he left, but we knew that we couldn't plan the wedding we wanted in the time we had. This is why we had a small ceremony at the end of January and decided to do a big wedding when he returns from Iraq.

Anyway now you know my background. From here on out let the bitching begin. I kidding, I think. Let's just say that the honeymoon is over and now we begin to navigate the intricacies of Army benefits, figure out how to say goodbye the each other, and figure out what deployment will be like. I have no doubt that we will make it through the deployment and that we will be stronger for it. This is not to say that this isn't gonna suck.