I suspect he wanted to get as far away from the campaigning as he could get. What better way than to be stationed out of the county for a year. Perfect timing for him, IMHO.
True. That tells me a lot about their relationship though. She is campaigning to be President of the United States and he is assigned overseas? He isn’t in the “active” military is he? I thought I read that he was like in the SC National Guard now? He can take a discharge from them at any time?