Is it fate? luck? or chance?

It's so crazy how life takes you to different places and seems to purposely put you in places to meet people that have some sort of connection to you. A few months ago I was in my office and I'm responsible for giving airfield driver licenses to anyone one who has a need to drive on our airfield. I have given the class to over a thousand people. So one day 2 civilian contractors show up and they start giving me their information so I can set them up for the class. One looks at me and says… "Are you Jason Deppen Brother"? My brother Jason passed a few years back. I actually looked at him in disbelief and said "What did you say"? And he asked me again. I said yes but he passed a few years back. He said yes I was very good friends with him, we use to hang out and always have a few beers. It was so crazy that here I am thousands of miles away and the chance this guy would walk into my office and happens to know my brother. Then I told him well
I had went to his funeral and I was the only Marine in Dress Blues and he said he remembered seeing me….. Ok I'll chalk it up to chance, 1 time that I would have this personal of a connection to anyone that would walk right into my office in the middle of nowhere Afghanistan. Then yesterday I'm sitting in my office and 3 2ndLt's walked in. 2 male, 1 female. I introduce myself and they are actually awaiting a seat at flight school in Pensacola, FL and volunteered to come out to Afghanistan for 3 months prior to starting. My Major set up their trip here to our Forward Operating Base from the main base to check out the different aviation assets we have. So I'm talking with them and the female 2ndLt looks at me and says "Your Uncle wouldn't be Brian Deppen from New London Ohio would it"? I mean had she said anyone else in the world I wouldn't have been as amazed. But my uncle is a farmer in New London Ohio, has live there his entire life,
runs and operates a farm called "Deppen Farms" that has been in my family for generations. But turns out here father and my uncle have known each other for a very long time. I can't think of a bigger needle in a hay stack then that. That is now 2 of them. It's crazy how fate, chance, luck can take you to the ends of the earth and you run into people that are connected to you. And when I say the ends of the earth, I mean it. I'm so far in the middle of nowhere in a desert, people don't even inhabit anywhere within miles of where I'm at. It makes me laugh. Well now that I'm done with that crazy thought. Let me tell you what my life has been like. My last Corporal that worked for me who looked just like Farva from Super Troopers, so his call sign became Farva has left back to the land of the Big PX. I'm happy this has happened, 1 it is a mile stone in my journey for myself to return to my 1 and only and my 2 mini me's and second his
replacement his full of MOTIVATION! He's so motivated that working with him is like night and day compared to the other guy. He is 23, from the Seattle Washington area. Got married on 1 July, has a baby on the way due March 2012. I had to think of a call sign for him, and with his home area being what it is, the call sign "Tree Hugger" seems to be sticking. His far from it, but it's funny and he likes it. He looks just like the movie actor Jimmy Smits. I will attach a photo of Farva and Tree Huger smoking a nice Cuban cigar celebrating Farva's last night which I'm in each one. I will let you guess which is Farva and which is Tree Hugger (Jimmy Smits stunt double).