Many military families struggle to balance their personal and professional lives. Those that do point to sacrifice and dedication
Six weeks after his first child was born, Paul Hook deployed to Afghanistan.
“I missed six months of her doing all the first things that I would never get to see again,” said Hook, who was a lieutenant in the Canadian Armed Forces at the time.
Three years later, in 2008, Hook decided to take a different approach with his second child. He informed his superior he “was going to take four or five months of parental leave, because I was never at home.”