Samenvatting

Soldiers and their home fronts have to take care of themselves during deployment. They have to find and use their inner strenght. Where do these women find the strenght to cope with a difficult period of a half-year separation from their husbands? The voice of the home front is seldom heard. This article is meant to give expression to the voice of the home front. In it the first findings of the research project on how Dutch military families experience deployments.