[kellwolf]

Well, I spent a few months in GKY training, went home for two weeks, got the call that I got the instructor job, packed up and left for 7 months. In those seven months, the only time I got to come home was when the owner of the school let me use his plane to fly home (all I had to do was put gas in it). So, in 7 months, I saw my wife and infant son for a grand total of four days. In a word, it sucked.

How did we make it work? It was said before "communication." Talking to the other person in your life on a daily basis goes a long way. Relationships aren't really built on the big things like jobs, money, etc. It's the little things that make them work. If you don't talk often, those little things either disappear or the bad ones pile up.

Now that all of that is done and over, we're all three in our own house together, and life couldn't be better. One of the things we kept saying was "At least I'm not getting shot at." I seriously don't see how military personnel can do it and keep their family together. Kudos to you guys.