As a career military wife, I can tell you that you may not hear from him often, but you will hear whenever he gets the opportunity. He may not be able to tell you much, but just the contact at all is such a blessing. I know when my DH was in Egypt setting up the radio gear for the rescue of the Kohmeni (sp) hostages back when, I just was told that he was in Egypt, it was 130 degrees, and not much else till he came back and some of that was years later.