When a soldier is deployed it appears—and I could be wrong on this, but I don't think I am—that the army doesn't really care. It may have changed in the last day or so, but if a soldier is deployed, he is told where to be on a certain date, time, and place, and away you go. The soldier or air person maybe goes home and says to the spouse, “I'm going to country X for six months or a year.” They'll set up some type of vacation or something like that for him, but at the end of the day, they are just told that is where they're going, and that's what they're going to do.
Then when the spouse receives a bit of difficulty, for instance, one of their children plays sports and breaks an arm. That's a team effort. It's a husband and wife effort to look after an emergency situation like that, but it's not a team effort any more. The spouse takes the child to the hospital, or they go by ambulance, and things are repaired. When the spouse has a problem with the house, whether it's a PMQ or their own house, it's incumbent upon the spouse to look after the difficulty, whether it's plumbing, electrical, or the wind blew some tiles off the roof.
Nowadays there are very limited accesses for spouses to go to and say they need help. As I said, they are just not used. They are forgotten.