Bob retired from the Air Force in 1997. AND in 2006.
He also returned to active duty in the Air Force in 2001. AND again in 2010. (Do you see a pattern developing here?) I don't know how many times it takes to get it right, but this better be the time. He has a three year contract that will put him pretty dang close to that 30 year mark for retirement pay (75% of what he is making right now for the rest of his life).
He put on his flight suit May 24, and on July 10 was handed a short-notice deployment, leaving in one week. That's today. He'll spend 120 days - get ready - in Florida supporting air operations for the oil spill clean up. Affectionately referred to as Tyndallistan.
It's embarrassing to even call it a deployment after watching the gut-wrenching deployments that the Army does - 15 months, to Iraq & Afghanistan after only being home 12 months since the last one. I promise not to whine and moan. And I won't brag about going to visit him for three weeks in August.
I salute you Army wives. You know who you are: Lesa, whose husband just returned; Rachel whose husband just returned; Sara whose husband just returned; Donna whose husband just returned and who had a baby while he was gone (!!); and all the Baumholder women whose husbands will soon be leaving for six weeks of training followed by 12 months in Afghanistan. I salute you.
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