One of my favorite things about Army life is that I always have a ready-made group of peers and friends at every installation. People who speak the language, get the jokes, and live the life right alongside me. Now that we're working on year sixteen in the Army, it's becoming more and more evident to me how very SMALL the Army can be. You'd think with over half-a-million active-duty Soldiers in the Army today that you wouldn't ever see anyone you knew, ever. You'd be wrong. It seems like every time I turn around, I'm seeing someone from a previous duty station or, even more common, someone who knows someone we once knew. Case in point: After our snow day a few weeks ago, my oldest son came home from school with a cell phone he'd found on the way home. We turned it on and called the number listed for "Mom" in the phone. When "Mom" answered, I told her my name and explained that my son found a cell phone with her number programme...