Call me crazy, but I think this guy MAY be wrong! Deployment to a war zone is indeed very stressful. It's hard on wives and kids and parents and siblings. It's even harder on the ladies and gents who leave those loved ones behind, but the reason they leave has not changed. They leave precisely BECAUSE of those loved ones.....and because of the loved ones of others. Freedom is not free, and they know it. So do their families.
It's a new day, folks, and it's a new war....unlike any war we have ever fought. The threat is unlike any we have ever faced. All of our service people know this. Too bad the armchair quarterbacks haven't figured it out.
He may be right. You can only take it so long before either your family breaks up or you leave and find another job.
This is going to be a very long war. This is not something we have faced before.
and the WWII Generation of waiting wives/children waited for 2, 3, 4, 5 straight years before VE & VJ day brought their husbands and fathers home.