1) You will realize you are much stronger, braver and resilient than you ever thought possible.
Every time you are faced with yet ANOTHER ridiculous situation, you somehow manage to pull through. And while it may not seem like it in the moment, you often times look back on the situation with pride, thinking “Heck yeah! I did it!”
I don’t believe deployments ever get any easier, but I do believe we become more capable of handling them with each little explosion, engine malfunction, temper tantrum or snake wrangling incident.
I used to dread the Deployment Curse. But now, it has just become something I accept and try to find the humor in.
After all, boring deployments that go perfectly don’t make for very entertaining “Top 5” lists, now do they?