Whirlwind

And so it begins. . . The mayhem of the holiday season followed in rapid succession by the frenzy of reintegration briefings and the sheer stupidity that redeployment will bring. Christmas is doable, provided that you don't mind having to do the majority of your shopping online to keep the kids from knowing what they are getting and to keep yourself from going fucking mad from taking the kids shopping in the first place. Christmas decorating around here is a no-go. Number one: I have a 16 month old who I do not need to be attempting to keep out of the fucking tree and Number 2: I cannot reach the damned decorations anyway!! They are in the attic buried under mounds of his fucking TA-50 and other miscellaneous Army shit. So fuck it!

And then there's the "reintegration" brief. Used to be called a redeployment brief. But apparently, we all need to go to learn how to "reintegrate" our husbands back into our families and society in general. We also are going to have to learn about what to look for in our husband's behavior that would be a warning sign of PTSD. Oooooo. Scary. The Army can't leave anything alone. They have to be sure that everything is as PC as possible, even if that means scaring the shit out of people who don't know any better. The notes with the email they sent out about the brief went on and on about PTSD and TBI and sleep issues and how not to let it fuck up your marriage. . .

All the bastards at this briefing are going to do is manage to scare the shit out of some little new Army wife who is going to think that her husband is going to some home a fucking nut job and freak out every time he has a bad dream or gets angry or doesn't want to be around a bunch of people. Give me a break! Just say it like it is. THEY ALL COME HOME FUCKING WEIRD! And that's the long and the short of it. Deal with the weirdness. This too shall pass.

Now I will admit, there are the weak-minded pussies who do stupid shit or go way off the deep end or have waking dreams and beat their wives, but it's mostly just really stupid things which aren't even worth mentioning. But now we have that fucker on poste who I guess killed his wife and then went to work like nothing had happened, so you know that all the higher-ups are going to be ramming this PTSD shit down our throats. And completely ignoring the fact that the piece of shit in question was on fucking rear-d this whole deployment and is just an asshole who killed his wife.

And then there's the redeployment itself, which someone will manage to fuck up in some way or another. That's SOP. Whether it's maps to the unit and air field getting lost, or not enough buses, or the heat being off in the hangar, someone somewhere in this unit will somehow drop the ball and something will end up fucked up.

It just had better not be my husband's fucking flight.