SGT Faircloth!

Today was a great day. Today my husband got promoted to SGT (Sergeant). YAY!

He has been working very hard towards this and deserves it completely. I am so very proud of him.

Zak is going to be such a great leader and if I were one of his soldiers I would feel 100% confident under his leadership during deployment (and not just saying that because he is my husband). Zak is completely devoted to the guys in hit unit and bringing them home. While I was pregnant I broke down hysterically about deployment, crying begging him to change units...do something, not to go because I had the worst feeling in the world about this coming deployment and he told me, "I cannot abandon my guys. I have to bring them home." He would give up his life for another in his Troop and that is so admirable, but also terrifying at times because, just like every other wife in the military, I want my husband to come home.

There is a quote from Greys Anatomy: "You know in the movies, how there's always the hero and then there's the other guy? You know, the guy who sees danger, and then runs in the opposite direction? ..Be the other guy."

That is exactly how I use to feel, and I will admit, I still do feel that way because I want my husband to watch our son grow up, I want our son to grow up wanting to be "just like daddy" and I want to grow old with my husband. But I also know, he IS a hero, he is NOT the other guy. He would rather die in combat knowing he saved others lives, then have a split second thought of being the other guy and others get harmed or killed. It would not happen. That is why he is going to be such a great leader over there. And that is one of the many reasons why I love my husband so much.

I could go on and on contridicting myself on how I want him to come home, but I want him to be the soldier and hero he is....but I believe you can have both. He can be that hero, save lives, be a great leader, "dismount before death", but still come home. I truly believe that, and that bad feeling I once had about this coming deployment, I don't have so much anymore. I have confidence in my husband, confident in the other NCO's and Officers and confidence in the lower enlisted to trust and listen to those above them.

Anyway....

Along with Zak, three of our other friends got promoted to SGT as well so I want to congratulate SGT Thompson, SGT Brumfield and SGT Macmillian -this now completes the E4 Mafia is now the E5 Mafia. Give 'em hell boys :p