My husband is AGR, and from what I’ve read in this case, I think it’s likely that AS is AGR. Unrelated to your post, Faebray, but in answer to a couple of posts by others, I can give my husband’s experience with how much he is out of town. He’s been on three deployments (one year each) plus the pre-mobilization time on the front end of each.
When he’s not deployed, he’s typically gone about one week per month on the average for training, conferences, etc. Sometimes he’s gone for as long as a month at a time. But he’s higher ranking than AS, and wasn’t gone as much earlier in his career.
As far as parenting goes, we only have one child, a teenage daughter, and my husband is very close to her and talks to us every day (sometimes multiple times per day) when he’s gone. Even during deployments, depending on his missions. BUT (big but!) we have an incredibly strong marriage, and our daughter is a super great kid who give us no problems! :-D
Some of our friends’ kids do struggle a bit when the military parent is gone, and I can imagine that with the dynamics of the marriages/relationships involved in this case, AS being gone could have added extra stress.
But I think it’s highly likely that AS is an involved and hands-on parent. I haven’t seen anything to make me think otherwise...TS didn’t even complain about that (that I recall) in her crazy interview.
