[Seahawk]

My wife and I have done two one year rotations...we were married a month before I shipped out for the first PGW.

A few tips:

Write each other, a lot. Little things mean the most. Write, Angela, all the silly, vapid details become important. Tell him you love him every day.

You will both be different as the year goes by, not better or worse, just different.

Pictures. Take them, send them.

If you can, go see him...find a place you both have wanted to visit, meet him there. Coming home in the middle of a tour is hard. It seems like a good idea, but it isn't.

I don't know you, but I think you are uniquely qualified to make this work.

My best to you and Steve.