Just 1 month left before leaving for training

Well Today is March 1st and I have just 1 left month before I head out for training.  Its amazing how much you value time with loved ones so much more when you know you won't see them for close to a year.  You can't understand the sacrifices made by so many of our soldiers and their love ones until you've made some of the same.  I am so thankful that I have 10 days in to spend in Hawaii with my beautiful bride Shannon prior to heading out!  I will truly miss her a lot just as I did while spending 8 months deployed on an aircraft carrier just 2 short years ago.  I think sometimes our spouses are the ones that make the biggest sacrifices with all these deployments.