Post-Deployment Wisdom For Those Expecting A Returning Service Member

by Adam Fenner

Are you expecting a returning Service Member from a combat zone?


Have you recently had one return?


Written from the perspective of the returning Service Member, by Adam “Doc” Fenner, after serving five combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fenner combines humor and common sense to address the hardest of issues faced by returning Service Members in this short guide designed for those family, friends, and loved ones expecting a returning Service Member from a combat theater of operations.


Post-Deployment Wisdom is a practical guide to the challenges facing those left behind while their Service Member returns home. This guide addresses personal expectations, substance abuse, emotional challenges, and PTSD, in a simple format that establishes a baseline for planning for the challenges related to reintegration home.


This simple guide focuses heavily on Service Member on Service Member support while inviting healthy open conversation with those that mean the most, those left behind.

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First published November 20, 2013

About the author

Adam Fenner is a veteran of the Marine Corps and the Army National Guard, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He has written a non-fiction memoir set during a 2010 deployment to Afghanistan and is working on a fictional horror series.
More importantly, I'm a husband and a father of three, along with a very boring accountant.