What is your advice to newly married couples facing their first deployment away from each other?

As often as possible stay in touch. Everyone naturally assumes the obvious phone calls, FaceTime, email, etc. I pre-ordered flowers for special occasions, gave money to a friend of ours and had her take the kids shopping for her birthday and mother's day so they could buy something for her from them, hid 30 different messages around the house in places she could find like:
her winter coat (it was summer when I left and she found it mid-tour)
under the mouse pad
in the battery compartment of the remote control
in a coffee mug
in the very bottom of the sugar container
really just about anywhere.

This was her favorite as she didn't know when she was going to find a message. Good luck.

Make sure your spouse is involved with the wives club if there is one -- mine wouldn't and it ultimately cost me a marriage. Of course, she should have all the appropriate contact info and a limited power of attorney. Of course it is much easier to stay in contact nowadays --- back then we only had the MARS network and shore-based telephones.

Here's some ideas:
-Communicate often: leverage technology to do this to the extent command policies and security allow
-Figure out the finances before you go. Make sure spouse left behind understands financial position and is willing to take responsibility for financial management. Make sure the deploying spouse understands his or her allocation of the family budget during deployment.
-Be faithful to your marriage vows: both partners, all the time, all places. What happens TDY or on deployment really won't remain TDY or on deployment
-Don't bring home anything you spouse can't eat, drink, or wear

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