By Jen Heisel At a homecoming brief recently, every spouse in attendance was asked to sum up the deployment for them in one word. I said this deployment had been empowering. This deployment, my husband’s third and our second together, seemed like a never-ending challenge. Just a few months into the deployment, on a ship with minimal port calls, a Marine lost his life. The internet on the ship was spotty at best. The deployment itself was extended indefinitely(which ended up only being three weeks). In spite of all of that, I felt like I grew more in the eight months than I had at any other point in my…