"Good morning. Your husband was targeted by roc.kets yesterday."

When I got to work this morning, I checked my email, like I always do. Today I had an email from K's colonel's wife, which is not at all uncommon. She sends us emails pretty regulary letting us know what's going on around post or even giving us updates about things like the post office adding a larger priority mail flat-rate box (a bigger option for care packages!).

When I opened her email, I was surprised at how it began: "Yesterday was a busy day and a blessing that everyone is OK."

I had no idea what she was talking about. She had attached an email from her husband, giving us all more information. It began, "As you have all probably heard by now ..."

The email went on to describe something that happened yesterday at K's base. The phrase "sustained rocket barrage" was used. My eyes skimmed over the part where the colonel said no one from K's unit was seriously injured. Instead, they went straight to this: "Due to the proximity of the impacting rounds, some soldiers received concussions."

Usually I wouldn't be concerned, since I would get a phone call or even a knock on my door in the event that K was injured, depending on the severity. Neither of those had happened.

But then again, I also always get a call anytime anyone from K's entire division is injured. The division consists of thousands of soldiers, some of whom aren't even stationed in the same state (or part of the country!) as K. In his email, the colonel said very specifically that it was K's battalion that was impacted. That's WAY more specific to K than his division (we're talking a few hundred, not thousands). And no one called me.

The military has groups set up for things like this, in addition to providing a solid support group for families while the soldiers are gone. In the Army, these groups (F.RG -- fam!ly read!ness group) are broken down by each battery (a battery is usually somewhere around 100 people). Usually the battery commander's wife (me) leads the F.RG, but since I never lived less than five hours from post, am a new military wife and have never even been to an F.RG meeting, someone else is leading ours.

I called my assigned contact person from my F.RG to find out why I hadn't gotten a call. She's always been really good about keeping me up to date, so I wasn't surprised when she explained a change in situation to me.

I'm working on getting it all straightened out so this never happens again. It is not a good thing to find out about something like that in an email.

I'm a little stressed, but I'm not really upset or worried. I'm sure if K had been one of the ones who was more seriously affected, they would have made sure to call me, even with the communication breakdown.

But it'll still be a huge relief next time I talk to K.