Have you used a SATCOM phone to call home while under fire? (Reference to American Sniper)

Not I, but one of my Sergeants was on a landline home when our building was attacked with a rocket. The warhead failed to explode (thankfully) but can through the air vent landing on the floor about three feet from the desk the phone was on. As I rushed up the stairs to find out what happened I met him on the stairs. He stopped long enough to tell us not to go up stairs because there was a mortar rolling around waiting to explode. Later he says he told his wife, "Hon, I gotta go!" and hung up before she had a chance to ask what happened! It was one of the funniest and scariest times on the that deployment at the same time.

I couldn't believe he did that. From the standpoint of OPSEC, from the standpoint of Situational Awareness, etc., it was just an incredibly stupid thing to do. Then his wife hearing all the @#%@# going on! If I had been in his shoes, that's the last thing I would have done, and I've been plenty homesick.

Of course in my day, calls home on deployment were few and far between and way too expensive besides...

Believe it or not, I never called home for 2 reasons. 1-I was not allowed to tell them where I was at. 2- I could not tell them what I was doing. My family worried a lot, but would have worried more if they knew or even suspected the details of my job. I just felt it was better for everyone.

P.S. I did write as often as I could on old c-ration boxes just to tell them I was OK and not real happy there. Postage was free anyway.....lol