(EFOMM - 2018)Choose the correct alternative to co

(EFOMM - 2018)

Choose the correct alternative to complete the text below.

About a year ago, two sisters ______ at a local Virginia Beach tea shop on a beautiful summer afternoon sipping delicious bubble tea, sharing laughs and enjoying each other's company, unsure of when they might see each other again. Both sisters ______the Navy in January 2014, leaving for basic training only two weeks apart. Since then, they ______assigned to different duty stations, making it difficult to find time to see each other.

(Adapted from: http://www.navy.mil)