When troops deploy to Afghanistan, it usually means leaving their family members behind and spending months aside.
However two US Marines, who’ve been married for 3 years, have simply begun a year-long tour at Camp Leatherneck collectively, the primary time they’ve deployed collectively.
Sergeant Andrew Johnson has already accomplished two excursions of Iraq as a canine handler, looking for IEDs along with his canine. However for Sergeant Frances Johnson that is her first deployment.
Whereas Andrew and Frances are in Afghanistan collectively, there may be one key member of the household who is much away. Their two year-old son Noah, who’s being cared for by grandparents again house in Colorado.
Noah’s dad and mom may very well be deployed for as much as a 12 months. However Andrew and Frances need to be certain that they’re nonetheless a part of their son’s life regardless that they’re hundreds of miles aside.
British Forces News spoke to them in Camp Leatherneck.
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