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title: "These simple luxuries can make your next deployment tolerable"
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date: "2020-09-08"
modified: "2020-10-30"
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  - name: "Tim Kirkpatrick"
    link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/tkirkpatrick/"
url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/these-simple-luxuries-can-make-your-next-deployment-tolerable/"
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  - "Entertainment"
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  - "Military Life"
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# These simple luxuries can make your next deployment tolerable

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In this episode of the Mandatory Fun podcast, Blake, Tim, and Chase speak with stand-up comedian [Mitch Burrow](<https://mitchburrow.com>) about what simple luxuries we wished we had while on deployment.

Mitch is a Marine Corps veteran that served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. He then started a career in manufacturing before realizing that it sucked. Now, Mitch has found his true calling in acting silly on a stage in front of strangers on a nightly basis.

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Being forward deployed without the amenities that service members are used to from back home can suck. While some military branches have chow halls with an all-you-can-eat menu, others are forced to eat highly-processed foods from heavy duty plastic bags — a.k.a. MREs.

Although we wish for the most part that our livelihood will remain the same while on deployment, it's the simple things service members miss the most.

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So what unique and simple amenity would Marine veteran and stand-up comedian Mitch Burrow liked to have had while deployed? His answer was simple.

"A data plan." — Mitch

To follow Mitch or check out one of his shows visit his website: [Mitchburrow.com.](<https://mitchburrow.com>)

**Hosted By:**

[Blake Stilwell](<https://www.facebook.com/StilwellAngel/>): Air Force veteran

[Tim Kirkpatrick](<https://www.facebook.com/tkirk35/>): Navy veteran

[Orvelin Valle (AKA O.V.)](<https://www.facebook.com/orvelinvallecreates/>): Navy veteran

Chase Millsap: Marine veteran

## Author
Tim Kirkpatrick entered the Navy in 2007 as a Hospital Corpsman and deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion 5th Marines in the fall of 2010. Tim now has degrees in both Film Production and Screenwriting. tim.kirkpatrick@wearethemighty.com