Well...my youngest nephew, a 1LT in Marine Reserves, has been ordered to up to a year's deployment in Tblisi. While an officer who deals with hearing, water supply, sewage, and other utilities he's still a combat engineer. The Georgia Deployment Program lost three Marine reservists in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Neither his father (who got the news today as his birthday present, I guess), his mother, and me are unworried.