[jyl]

Turns out my wife will be taking care of a toddler, one morning a week. His mother and father are both in the Army, and both deployed in Iraq. His grandmother, our neighbor, is caring for her grandson but she works mornings and the hired caregiver can't do Thursdays, so they needed help and here we are . . . its just a volunteer thing and shouldn't last more than a few months.

The point is, my wife and I got into a debate about deploying both parents of a small child. She argues it is wrong and the Army should accomodate families in this situation by deploying only one parent at a time. I argue that the parents knew what they signed up for and that the parents' Army units need them too.

What do you all think? Is simultaneous deployment of parents a normal Army policy, and should it be?