Like mother, like son: Deployed soldier’s mom joins him in Afghanistan
By: J.D. Simkins  
Detaching from warm familial surroundings to venture off to far-flung corners of the globe will forever be one of the toughest facets of the deployment process.
Communication restricted to letters, unreliable phone centers and rarely accessible social media oftentimes makes the distance between two worlds seem infinite, a feeling Sgt. Yash Hernandez-Kraskey experienced firsthand during his first tour in Afghanistan.
Months ago, however, as he was entering the home stretch of his second deployment to Afghanistan, the 24-year-old helicopter mechanic from the Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based 101st Combat Aviation Brigade learned he would soon be seeing someone who would significantly close the cosmic space between deployed life and home sentimentality — his mother.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/31/like-mother-like-son-deployed-soldiers-mom-joins-him-in-afghanistan/
