Best of luck. I’ll be facing a roughly comparable situation when this deployment ends and I return home, but I have a few buffers that you don’t: i.e., a wife with a substantial income of her own, and the ever-present possibility of volunteering for some other duty. While the dislocation in your case must be a bit more pressing, it sounds as if you’re solidly grounded in assessing your situation and setting a strategy for response.

I don’t know the employment statistics for Massachusetts — this isn’t the best time for anyone to be looking for a job — but you have a plan and you have a sound attitude, so we can hope that you’ll situate yourself in quick order.