I feel your pain. I too am in the military, but stationed in California's central valley. Since I only have access to public land, the deer hunting out here sucks. Besides that the season dates here are during the dead heat of summer when not even the insects bother moving around much. Anyway, this is my second year of no hunting. Thankfully I retire next year and will be heading back to the holy land of cheese (Wisconsin . . . . go Badgers!) and will be out chasing those big Whitetails.