She hated plastic eating utensils, the sand, the wind, rocket attacks, alerts in the middle of the night, walking to the latrine and shower.
It took her a long time to feel normal again. Still to this day she hates the sound of helicopters flying overhead. She worked and lived near the med station and helicopter pad.
Our deployments overlapped a few months. I did hitch a ride to her base with at the time Gov Rick Perry. We were on the ground about three hours, got to see her get promoted.
She got to come to my base initially for a couple days. Her return flight had problems and she ended up staying eight days.
I got home and went took off for Florida for a couple weeks.
Both retired now from the Guard/Reserves. Neither one of us miss it.