You're right - there's enough of us that if it were happening someone's son or daughter would tell Dad who would tell the rest of us. Not much gets past FreeRepublic.
Yesterday, one of the local kids came in from college for a couple of weeks of training at the local base, then ships down to Haiti for a week or two then would you believe it, off to Germany for a while. Sounds like a heck of a summer to me. Germany makes it all worth while.