Thanks for that question.
There is definitely.... On each deployment—and I had five of them, both wartime and non-wartime—there's a significant amount of personal investment and effort that goes into each of these missions when a soldier goes. There's pre-deployment training that goes on for months for five days a week. It's hard, for 10 hours a day. Then, when you get overseas, your only job is to eat, sleep and work. I'm pulling 15-hour or 18-hour days for six months, so when I get back on that plane to go home, I'm done, and it takes a while to recover.
Depending on what you are exposed to as a soldier, because we have a variety of different missions, there is a decompression period, a serious decompression period, required for some soldiers.