My husband told me yesterday that he was putting off telling me something, but didn't want me to hear it from other people. My mind immediately went crazy, considering all the possibilities of that forewarning in the military life. When he finally told me, I just started to laugh.

It turns out that most of the guys that deployed with him for the same general assignment he's on are going home early. Except his group. They're doing such a great job that they are being told they're still needed.

What else could I do but laugh? Isn't that the way it works?

All I can think about is tracking down a full bird colonel and giving him an earful. I happened to wind up standing beside and talking to a colonel while waiting to shoot a homecoming in October. He asked about my husband, how long he's been in, how many deployments he's done, where he is now, etc. When I explained his current assignment the man, without a second thought about how it might affect who he was talking to, said, "Oh, those guys will be coming home early!" Luckily I'm not a newbie wife apt to believe a colonel who is not at all associated with my husband's group, but imagine if I had been and had just received the news that yes, some are coming home early but not my husband? I really would like to tell that colonel how utterly inappropriate that comment was, especially now. Stupidhead.