When my daughter (my baby) went in to the Air Force, I was OK with it. I had her hubby and little one here while she was in basic in Texas. And then she went off to England for her first assignment and that was OK, too, because my mom and dad were both from Wales and England was just next door. I went to visit her several times and when we said "good bye" at the Airport each time I totally lost it. It was like, "Wow, you are really all these thousands of miles away". My SIL would always tell me he hated to see me go because I always made him cry (Dammit, Kathy, you're making me cry.). She was in Special Security Forces and that always scared me because it was in the middle of the Saudi crisis and I never knew where she'd be. Many times she was buried in a bunker somewhere. One time, I cried all the way home and the guy sitting next to me wouldn't even talk to me.