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While catching up on some of my TV shows on this lazy Saturday morning, I was watching a recent episode of Vikings on the History Channel.
At the end of the episode, they showed the Vikings preparing to set sail towards England for their latest raid and focused on how some of the characters were preparing to leave their families and how they prepared mentally prior to leaving.
This got me back to thinking to what I did personally the night before deploying. In 2003 I went out the day before and had a huge steak dinner and beers with my friends. In 2006, the family and I went out and enjoyed the day before leaving.
Hollywood tries to capture the feelings we all felt before deploying but I'm interested to see what everyone here on RallyPoint did before leaving. There is a lot of doubt and uneasy feelings on the days leading up to the deployment and most of those feelings do not go away until you are back; but everyone tries to find a way to take advantage of the time and tries their best to easy those concerns.
At the end of the episode, they showed the Vikings preparing to set sail towards England for their latest raid and focused on how some of the characters were preparing to leave their families and how they prepared mentally prior to leaving.
This got me back to thinking to what I did personally the night before deploying. In 2003 I went out the day before and had a huge steak dinner and beers with my friends. In 2006, the family and I went out and enjoyed the day before leaving.
Hollywood tries to capture the feelings we all felt before deploying but I'm interested to see what everyone here on RallyPoint did before leaving. There is a lot of doubt and uneasy feelings on the days leading up to the deployment and most of those feelings do not go away until you are back; but everyone tries to find a way to take advantage of the time and tries their best to easy those concerns.
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I'll tell something honestly here that I have probably never admitted to anyone... I worked in the trauma bay in Kandahar and we used to carry pagers. We would get paged when casualties were coming in and had about 15 minutes to report. More than once, I was in the chow line, and chose not to take food. You never knew what you were about to see, and you never know what might suddenly give you issues. Thankfully, I never had this problem. But I watched more than a few start to lose lunch when the bilateral amputations came in. Physiology sometimes doesn't want to accommodate what you need to do.
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