Sorry to hear about your sitch. Volunteering for a deployment is a tough one. Detaching for that long could help out or it could leave the door open for something else to take place. Being former military myself, I've seen where spouses have cheated when the military member left. So I'm sure this fact has crossed your mind already. Deployments are tough enough without have troubled MR to worry about. With everything going on, I would suggest not deploying because of the children. Things are going to be tough for them with your wife "finding herself."