Inside the Gates: How military families cope with deployment

Deployment is one of the biggest hardships military families face. At Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, spouses missing their service members have support to help them through the separation.
The Baker family has been away their airman for the last five months.
Senior Airman Brian Baker is currently deployed in Afghanistan. It’s the first time he’s been away from his wife Megan and two children, Annabelle, age 4, and Brayden, age 14 months.
Megan is left to handle th