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Staying Connected During Deployment: Tips for Maintaining Relationships

Extended deployment can challenge the bonds we share with loved ones. Chaplain Andy Meverden provides essential strategies to stay connected while serving away from home. Commit to your relationship by renewing vows and affirming your commitment both verbally and in writing. Plan and establish multiple communication methods, such as email and telephone, and schedule regular check-ins. Prioritize safety and maintain healthy emotional relationships. Engage spiritually, grow personally, and remember your purpose. Utilize local resources for support and plan for reintegration after deployment.

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Staying Connected During Deployment: Tips for Maintaining Relationships

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  1. Staying Connected While Deployed How to Stay Connected During Extended Deployment Chaplain Andy Meverden COARNG – Command Chaplain 720-250-1074 (Tue-Fri)

  2. It’s often said... “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

  3. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Commit to Stay Connected: • Renew Vows • Privately or formally • Affirm Commitment • Verbally or written • Confirm intentions • Let them know before you go… • Don’t presume anything.

  4. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Plan to Stay Connected: • Establish multiple means of communication • Snail-mail (good old standby) • E-mail (available in country) • Telephone (direct, collect, etc.) • Communicate on a regular basis • Calculate times zone difference • Have primary & alternate times

  5. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Act to Stay Connected: • Make safety a priority • Both at home & deployed • Greater risk of auto or motorcycle accident than combat casualty…

  6. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Play it Safe: • Physically: • Don’t take unnecessary risks (winter driving, etc.) • Get help when needed • Use “buddy principle” • Lock up cars & housing • Secure/hide valuables • Avoid questionable areas • Stay physically fit…

  7. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Play it Safe: • Emotionally: • Maintain healthy positive relationships - especially with family & mutual friends • Avoid new or old cross-gender relationships that may alienate affection • “Transference” & “Counter-transference” • Share emotions with separated loved one

  8. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Play it Safe: • Sexually: • If married: • Avoid extra-marital affairs • Adultery = UCMJ offense • If engaged: • Keep your promise • Sexualized relations harm unit cohesion- always! • If committed: • Keep your commitment • “Come home clean!”

  9. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Play it Safe: • Sexually: • Yes, you can survive 6 months without sex…. • Gen Custer’s wife’s perspective… • “I treat it like a honeymoon!” • “Tonight’s the night!”

  10. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Play it Safe: • Spiritually: • Exercise your faith • If you don’t have a faith community: • Reconnect with heritage • Establish a mutually satisfactory connection • Pray for each other daily • Talk to God in moments of trial & difficulty

  11. How to Stay Connected While Deployed:Things to do: • Don’t put life on “hold” • Keep working toward goals • Spouse scholarship • HS Jr/Sr Lewis & Clark Expedition • Send inexpensive “gifts” • Use local support network • Grow as a person • Plan for “decompression” & post-deployment reintegration (R&R) • Remember why we serve….

  12. Q & A Questions about Staying Connected While Deployed

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