Warbyrd13
07-12-09, 04:05 AM
When I PCSd from Oki to stateside I was in Chicago moving my wife, 2 sons and our gear across the airport. 2 gentlemen came up and offered to help us with our bags since I had a couple seabags and some luggage for my wife and I.
I thanked the 2 guys who helped me out and they said it made them feel good to help any service member and thier families when they could becuase they had family in the military. Made my wife feel good since she just recently got out of the Air Force.
Now since I was close to ending my final enlistment with the Marines I left my family in Ohio and did the whole Geo-bachalar deal. Plus I was looking at a year long deployment with RCT 6 so no point dragging my wife and 2 sons to NC when we was going to go back to Ohio.
Checked into my unit, put my stuff in storage at a friends house got a slap on the back an deployed to Iraq with RCT6. Comm Chief checked to make sure I had spent enough time with my family before we deployed and I ready to deploy again. After 2 months there I received a little message that my wife was preg with our third child. I kinda expected this but the shocker was AF messed up her final physical and she was preg for a bit. No big deal she had support of my family there while I was out in the sandbox.
Now my wife wanted to have a little girl and we talked about having another kid so the boys could have a younger sister or brother to pick on. The plan was a few years after I settled down and the boys were bigger. Any way my sister knew we were having a girl and my wife didn't want to know until the kid was born. She wanted the second kid to be a girl but we got a boy. So everyone but her knew that we was having a girl. We picked out a girls name and we picked out a boys name.
The day my wife went into labor was the same time the comm system I was responsible for had issues so for 3 days I didn't get much sleep becuase of getting updates of wife and new baby and that stupid 42 van crashing. Of course during this time my one sister(I have 3 younger sister) and my mom decided this would be a great time to change to concince my wife to change the names that her and i agread upon while I was away. 3 hours before my wife gave birth my wife informed me of the presure she felt from those 2 and they wanted to talk to me. i kindly remined my wife i hadn't slept in over 2 days and the names we agread upon were fine. if those two people got on the phone an wanted to debate names with me it wouldn't bold well for thier health. i was in no mood for stupidty. 3 hours later my daughter Salem Ranea was born on Feb 28th 2007. And my 1 sister an mom are still anoyed about the name but i told them to pound sand, my wife and i agread upon the name and if they don't like it I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.
Now i am used to deploying with the infantry and when they say your gone for 6 months you are gone. So to my suprise when I got combat leave which, i scheduled mine to be home around my wife's and son's b-day. When i was able to take my leave my daughter was 6 months old and I had the birth pic my wife sent me in the mail. I had other pics sent to me via email but this pic was special since my 2 sons signed it also.
After the huge shuffle and getting on the nice flight in my cammies I arrived in Alt GA. I rushed over to the ticket counter and asked the lady behind the desk to get me the earlist flight to Dayton Ohio becuase I had someone very important to meet. Then I showed her the picture and explained my daughter is 6 months old and I have yet to old her. The woman behind the counter then ensured I had a seat on a plane that was leaving in 25 minutes and was beginning to board. She called ahead and explained to them why they needed to wait for me and I was on my way.
Couple hours later my dad picked me up from the airport and I was home shortly after that. Then for the first time in 6 months I was able to hold my daughter. And I was able to see my boys again. Oldest was happy to see but the youngest was still mad becuase I "left" him. Took him a couple days but the stubborn little brat forgave me. Then he got mad again when I had to go back. Didn't see them again for about 8 months.
I thanked the 2 guys who helped me out and they said it made them feel good to help any service member and thier families when they could becuase they had family in the military. Made my wife feel good since she just recently got out of the Air Force.
Now since I was close to ending my final enlistment with the Marines I left my family in Ohio and did the whole Geo-bachalar deal. Plus I was looking at a year long deployment with RCT 6 so no point dragging my wife and 2 sons to NC when we was going to go back to Ohio.
Checked into my unit, put my stuff in storage at a friends house got a slap on the back an deployed to Iraq with RCT6. Comm Chief checked to make sure I had spent enough time with my family before we deployed and I ready to deploy again. After 2 months there I received a little message that my wife was preg with our third child. I kinda expected this but the shocker was AF messed up her final physical and she was preg for a bit. No big deal she had support of my family there while I was out in the sandbox.
Now my wife wanted to have a little girl and we talked about having another kid so the boys could have a younger sister or brother to pick on. The plan was a few years after I settled down and the boys were bigger. Any way my sister knew we were having a girl and my wife didn't want to know until the kid was born. She wanted the second kid to be a girl but we got a boy. So everyone but her knew that we was having a girl. We picked out a girls name and we picked out a boys name.
The day my wife went into labor was the same time the comm system I was responsible for had issues so for 3 days I didn't get much sleep becuase of getting updates of wife and new baby and that stupid 42 van crashing. Of course during this time my one sister(I have 3 younger sister) and my mom decided this would be a great time to change to concince my wife to change the names that her and i agread upon while I was away. 3 hours before my wife gave birth my wife informed me of the presure she felt from those 2 and they wanted to talk to me. i kindly remined my wife i hadn't slept in over 2 days and the names we agread upon were fine. if those two people got on the phone an wanted to debate names with me it wouldn't bold well for thier health. i was in no mood for stupidty. 3 hours later my daughter Salem Ranea was born on Feb 28th 2007. And my 1 sister an mom are still anoyed about the name but i told them to pound sand, my wife and i agread upon the name and if they don't like it I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.
Now i am used to deploying with the infantry and when they say your gone for 6 months you are gone. So to my suprise when I got combat leave which, i scheduled mine to be home around my wife's and son's b-day. When i was able to take my leave my daughter was 6 months old and I had the birth pic my wife sent me in the mail. I had other pics sent to me via email but this pic was special since my 2 sons signed it also.
After the huge shuffle and getting on the nice flight in my cammies I arrived in Alt GA. I rushed over to the ticket counter and asked the lady behind the desk to get me the earlist flight to Dayton Ohio becuase I had someone very important to meet. Then I showed her the picture and explained my daughter is 6 months old and I have yet to old her. The woman behind the counter then ensured I had a seat on a plane that was leaving in 25 minutes and was beginning to board. She called ahead and explained to them why they needed to wait for me and I was on my way.
Couple hours later my dad picked me up from the airport and I was home shortly after that. Then for the first time in 6 months I was able to hold my daughter. And I was able to see my boys again. Oldest was happy to see but the youngest was still mad becuase I "left" him. Took him a couple days but the stubborn little brat forgave me. Then he got mad again when I had to go back. Didn't see them again for about 8 months.