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Use available programs to print an image of yourself onto a t-shirt transfer for a pillow case for your spouse to take during deployments and patrols, it makes the nights alone a little easier. You may want to make one for yourself as well!
Write little notes and put them into your spouses sea bag before they leave so that they will have little notes from you to find later ... it also works well the other way around. Leave notes and letters in places your spouse will be sure to find them while you are deployed.