My Daughter Texted Me During Deployment — So I Came Home Early

and stories about support groups while I was eating MREs in triple-digit heat. Haley was old enough to understand too much, while Cody, our ten-year-old son, still slept through most of it. The money made it worse. My deployment pay, hazard pay, separation pay, tax benefits, and reenlistment bonuses all went into our joint account to cover the mortgage,continue reading …