Military Wives' Transition and Coping: Deployment and the Return Home

Table 1

Phases of deployment.

Phase	Properties	Themes
News of deployment	Awareness	Emotional chaos
		Making preparations
Deployment	Engagement	Taking the reins
		Placing focus elsewhere
	Change and difference	Emotional and physical turmoil
		Staying strong
		Reaching out
After deployment	Time span	Absence makes the heart grow fonder
	Critical points and events	Reestablish roles