Some military families caught off guard as thousands of troops are deployed to the Middle East

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More than 3,000 service members are set to be deployed to the Middle East as tensions rise following the killing of an Iranian general by the United States.

That means thousands of families – spouses, children and siblings – were separated from their loved ones -- some without notice. Many of them are from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"She kind of took it as a joke the night before because of the memes on Twitter," Morales said. The hashtag #WWIII was one of the top trends on Twitter heading into the weekend."She wasn't expecting to be deployed so soon," Morales did not want to publicize her tweet on CNN. She said she tweeted it because of the #WWIII memes to show"there's real people risking their lives for this war."

"It just happened so fast," Shumard, 42, said."It happens whenever it's going to happen you can't control it, so I think the worst part of that is when you don't get to say goodbye." Sabrina Johannes is an Army wife whose husband served in Afghanistan. She's the executive director of Deployed Love, a community of volunteers at Fort Bragg that are dedicated to making things easier for spouses and children left behind.

 

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