Oh shoot, a night shoot...

So tonight my husband is going to be home late, the military has him doing a night shoot. It would be nice if they could give a day or two of notice for these sort of things but what can you expect when you have a bunch of grumpy old man who are stuck in the stone age as the higher ups. I know things have to get done but can we show some respect to the families please?
I'm very curious to see how hard of a time my husband has getting his week off when our baby is born. I am not going to be a happy person if they try and ruin this for us and I will be calling base myself if these dinosaurs give us a hard time about it. I don't know exactly how the process works but I do know that there are people for the family members to get a hold of if we feel we are being treated unfairly. At this point in time I wouldn't put anything past them.
I hate to totally complain about my husband's job considering there are some good aspects to it, but the downers to the job can be so overwhelmingly stressful and outright depressing. I do love the fact that they get long Christmas breaks and extra time on long weekends but lets face it these soldiers have earned it, and so have the families! It is just hard living in uncertainty especially when you are a person who likes to have things totally planned out in advanced. I just hope as the kids get older they understand that it isn't their Dad's fault if he can't be at certain events. That doesn't really bother me, I spent our first wedding anniversary by myself but I understand it wasn't his choice to be away. I knew before I married him that he wouldn't always be able to be here but I really didn't expect that it would be happening around the time that I am due to have a baby (which is probably why I am a little more emotional than usual when it comes to this sort of stuff). Back when we found out we were pregnant we had no idea that we'd be dealing with this again since a certain somebody said anyone who has done two or more tours wouldn't be going over seas again and my husband has done 3 tours! Figure that one out, I'm still trying to!
I just really want to see my husband be able to spend time with the baby before he leaves, it will be hard enough of him being any from his new baby for 6 to 9 months. We totally expect that the baby is not going to remember him which is really heart breaking but is expected with such a young child. At least our oldest boy can talk to him on the phone and over the internet, I think my son has some comfort in that.