Mike's Deployment

Today at 9 am Mike's ship deployed out on the humanitarian cruise. The deployment is only 121 days long, its not as long as his last one. Mike told me that when they are out there they don't even know what day it is, because they wake up, work, eat, shower, got to bed and repeat the same thing everyday that they are out. Of course some people keep a log or count down the days. But most of them don't because it to hard for them to think about. Being away from family, is really hard on alot of them! What Mike does when he is out is he works out alot. Because it keeps him busy and helps him not think about how far away he is from the ones he loves or how much longer the deployment is.
But when you wake up at 6 in the morning every day and you sit around in the hot sun waiting for aircrafts to crash and you don't get off your shift tilll 9 or later... life pretty much sucks for them! Don't get me wrong, Mike has told me that deployment is not all that bad. When the ship pulls into a port that they can get out on the town they enjoy that. Especially if they can find a place where they can call their family. They also go shopping!
So not everything about the deployment is totally bad. Just the fact that snail mail is slow, they hardly get to check their e-mail and they work really hard when they are out. Mike and I are hoping that deployment fly's by super fast. We miss each other and can not wait to be together again!