Now she is moving to a new city in a different state and I’m the one who gets to help her move.I guess the day started like any other day I got up g...assed the truck up and hooked up the trailer and headed to my sisters apartment to start loading all her stuff up for the big move. The plan was for me to pull the trailer and she is going to follow in her car so we didn’t have to make two trips. As we were loading boxes into the trailer we talked like we always do we were open in all things noting. "Mom, this anita, anita, this is my mother." "It's so nice to meet you Mrs. khan," the pretty little Japanese girl replied. "Why thank you, anita," mumtaj replied with a smile, "it's so nice to meet a girl with manners." A little red flashed in the embarrassed girl's cheeks as she sat down beside kasem on the long sofa that dominated the khan' den. mumtaj took a seat in the easy chair facing them, and after giving everyone a chance to get settled in she shocked the poor unsuspecting young girl. I’d be doing deployments almost anywhere we went anyway...”Her expression changed to shocked disbelief.“Seriously? You’re going to compare this to a normal unit? One where they schedule deployments months in advance instead of hours, and one where I can at least know where you’re going or at least find out where it was after you get back?”The unspoken word was “if”. Katie wasn’t as naïve as some of the wives – she knew that many of the “training missions” weren’t really training missions. Her. I picked up a cab, grabbed my bag while I had the cabbie wait and was at the airport just in time for check in. I hadn't even had time to change and was still wearing the business skirt and jacket I had put on this morning for the meeting. My feet were killing me, three inch heels weren't exactly made for running through airports in.I'd gotten a seat in coach, the last available seat in any plane today and I made due, sitting back and making idle chit chat with the older lady I was seated.