How a deployed soldier calls you?

I have a guy who was talking to me while he was still home and things were great. He went back to fort Campbell in KY. All of a sudden he began to not respond once he got back. When I asked him about if he was talking to someone else, he said that he found out he was being deployed for 3 months. That's all he said he could tell me… He supposedly left to go across seas last Monday. And the Friday after that I got a phone call from him. But noticed that the caller ID on my iPhone said the call was from Oak Grove KY. I looked up the number and it was the army base he was stationed at.

Is it normal to have a call be from the base they were stationed at? Because I heard about DSN and didn't know if that was why!
If you could please answer this I'd appreciate it!

It is for yours and your duely beloved safety that the location shud be kept secret.don't let it be hard on you dear that's how the forces work to keep their soldiers safe.

When you're using a dsn phone overseas, you call home by first calling a military base in the US and having them patch your call onto a commercial line. This is the way people call home from overseas 90% of the time.

So it's very possible.

edit: also the rest of what you've said is probably true as well. The three month timespan is a little weird because that's really short for most units, but if he's in WHC or on a general's staff or in a really specialized unit or something it would make sense. Either way, if he was being deployed, then that is about all he would be allowed to tell you. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

To be sure, when you talk to him, is there a delay of 1-2 seconds between one person saying something and the other hearing? That happens pretty frequently in dsn calls like that (although not all the time).