My interview was July, 2008 (still have all the email correspondence). I was deployed to Iraq for well over a year and got back home in July of 2007. At that time, for my specialty, it was very common to be deployed again shortly after returning and I would constantly get warnings that my name was on a deployment list.

As soon as I got back the company I worked at while I was deployed just made everything so difficult. The company was based out of Los Angeles.