A U.S. military couple who bought a house in South Carolina found themselves separated by the wife’s deployment. However, two months later, a stroke of luck reunited them when the husband was deployed more than 7,000 miles away from home, to the very same base.
First Lt. Alyson Phillips, 378th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron infrastructure flight commander, aged 25, and her husband, Capt. Thomas Phillips, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 weapon systems officer, aged 26, were each tasked to deploy by their respective branches. However, they were unaware that they'd soon reunite in the middle of the desert in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
