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Spotsylvania woman surprises her husband, who has been deployed to Iraq, with the finished--and furnished--home of their dreams Date published: 3/19/2006
As the wife of a Marine, Jubee Moxley has learned a thing or two about hush-hush operations.
She pulled off a major one in the past few months. While her husband, Kris, was flying helicopter missions in Iraq, Jubee worked with a contractor to get the couple's dream home built before he returned. In e-mails and regular phone calls, Jubee told Kris enough to keep him from getting suspicious. But she never let on that the house in the Chancellor area of Spotsylvania County would be finished--and furnished--when he came back from seven months in the desert. "I didn't know that it would be complete, and I surely didn't expect it to be all made up like it is now," he said this week, as he sat on brand-new furniture in his freshly painted living room. "I thought maybe it would be in the final stages of construction, and we could move in, and they could work around us. "She kept me in the dark." Jubee, who grinned throughout the conversation, purposely kept her partner out of the loop. "I learned from a Marine how to be--what's the word--covert," she said. "I just wanted everything to be perfect for him." Kris, a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserves, returned to Spotsylvania on Tuesday. He'd been in Iraq since September 2005, on his second deployment in less than two years. He'll return to Norfolk tomorrow and will be stationed there during the week, through July, as he fulfills his duty in the Reserves. He'll be able to come home on the weekends to be with his wife and their two sons, Kristopher, 13, and Nathaniel, 11. The 21/2-hour commute to Norfolk won't bother him. "It's better than being in Iraq," he said. Kris, who's 41, spent 12 years in the Marine Corps before he joined the Reserves in 1999. His unit was deployed to Iraq the first time in August 2004. He said he felt much safer on the second visit to the Al Asad Air Base, about 100 miles northwest of Baghdad. During his first deployment, the base got hit by rockets every two weeks or so, knocking out electricity. "We didn't get rocketed on our base for the last four months I was there," he said. "It was definitely safer this time."
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