[Grimmy]

You may also want to consider that we're still very early in this GWOT. There's many more fronts to be opened and fights to be fought before its all said and done.

Where you are and doing what you're doing now should hold y'all in good stead when its time for you to redeploy. You'll have some of the "caluses" already developed to cover the soft spots of deployment living and be more familiiar with adjusting to a patrol type schedule.
All that may very well make snapping into a new hotzone that much smoother.