Dual-military families feel strain of back-to-back tours in Iraq

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Brian Stewmon returned late last
month from an 11½-month tour in
Iraq. He got home just in time to kiss
his wife goodbye and send her off on
her own yearlong deployment.

“We expected separation, but we
never expected two years,” Michelle
Stewmon said last week, just after
arriving in Kuwait. “People don’t
know that it’s going on. They’re
shocked this is happening.”

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