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Wait… who told you I was defensive?

Inevitably, as posting season rolls around, we hear, think and talk a lot about different homes, different jobs, different cities. As it currently stands, this spring we are heading to another end of the country where DH will have a different job, away from his home unit for a few years. Now, I’ve spent enough time around the Army that I am not willing to confirm anything until that moving van pulls away.  Plans change.  Military plans change more.   But, assuming things go as they are looking at this moment, we will be somewhere new this Summer. Somehow, someway, we have spent the last 12.5 years in the same posting. And life has looked very much the same year after year. Predeployment.  Deployment.  Training Exercise.  Course.  Predeployment.  Deployment.  Domestic Deployment.  Exercise.  Course.  Predeployment.  Deployment…….. You get the idea.   Now, with a new location comes a new job. Most of the time when soldiers who are a part of DH’s unit get a job away, they go somewhere to teach.  It’s a few years in country at one of the schools. So, after being in a deployable position for his whole career this far, the most common response I get when people hear about our tentative upcoming move? “It’s nice he’ll have a few years home.” Well, sure. But this isn’t a teaching posting.  It’s just a different kind of deployment posting.  Trust DH to find one of the only jobs he could get posted to that still deploys. And that’s ok.  Because I think he’s going to…