Being an MP on Fort Hood can mean holding a variety of jobs. These alerts are necessary for maintaining the readiness in the event of deployment. Participation in an alert is vital to the soldier and to the unit's mission, they cannot be excused for routine matters. If a crisis does occur to which Military Police units are called to respond, information may not be available to the spouses right away. Please be aware that the soldiers may not be able or allowed to call home.
Deployments play an essential role in maintaining national and international relationships.
They can and will happen at any time. Count your courage instead of your fears, Count your full years instead of your lean, Count your kind deeds instead of your mean, Count your health instead of your wealth, Count on GOD instead of yourself. The good Lord was creating a model for military wives and was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared. She has to be completely independent, possess the qualities of both father and mother, be a perfect hostess to four or 40 with an hours notice, run on black coffee, handle every emergency imaginable without a manual, be able to carry on cheerfully, even if she is pregnant or has the flu, and she must be willing to move to a new location 10 times in 17 years. And oh, yes, she must have six pairs of hands.