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Portability vs. Passion: 3 Steps To Put You Back On The Career Track
A “portable” career is not enough for military spouses. Although it is important to be able to take your career with you when your service member gets orders, fulfillment and passion are also required. That’s right: fulfillment and passion...
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Mon, Apr 23 2012 12:30 PM
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PCS Vigilance
My husband had five duty stations in his first five years of being in the Army. I thought we were PCS pros. Moreover, nothing had ever gotten lost and nothing really had ever been damaged … at least nothing worth filing a claim over: one wooden...
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Tue, Apr 24 2012 10:00 AM
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The Other Side of Early Redeployment
Sometimes our fantasy scenarios aren’t all they are cracked up to be. A few weeks ago my husband returned from his fifth overseas deployment … three months early. This is the first time this has ever happened to our family. Usually, we are the ones whose...
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Thu, Apr 26 2012 5:00 AM
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Mil(Spouse) Retirement?
It is common these days to build your own retirement if you are unemployed or self-employed. That’s great news for the stay-at-home spouse or work-from-home spouse (this includes parents). I received some great information from USAA spokesman and financial...
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Fri, Apr 27 2012 5:00 AM
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Military Base Living: Yay or Nay?
My husband was a Marine Brat growing up. Actually he was a very nice boy, who aside from setting off a rocket in the living room in 5th grade was fairly well behaved. But his dad was a career Marine and he spent his younger years doing the Marine Corps...
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Mon, Apr 02 2012 2:00 AM
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Military Wife Quote: If You Can Find a Path …
I secretly want an easy life. I want my kids to go to Kindergarten in the same school district that they graduate from high school. I want to be so content that I never need to swallow my loneliness with mocha chip ice cream. I want to go to bed every...
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Sun, Apr 29 2012 6:30 AM
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Dear Civilians: Four Military Appreciation Tips
My spouse works his tail end off for his country, not to mention risking his life and leaving his family behind for months at a time. So it’s pretty great when people who are not in the military recognize his service. He finds it a little embarrassing...
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Tue, Apr 17 2012 8:00 AM
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Don’t YOU Want ME in the Military?
I never hear military members carp about the 99.5 percent of the population that does not serve in the military. Why is that? I sometimes hear them complain about an aging fleet or back-to-back deployments or diminishing benefits or my persistent desire...
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Wed, Apr 18 2012 11:00 AM
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Travel Insurance Tips for Milfam Summer Fun
Trip planning is a large part of vacation/PCS preparations for our families, but what often gets discounted or simply overlooked is travel insurance. It can be the difference between a smooth sail or bumpy roads back home with nothing to show for it....
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Thu, Apr 19 2012 11:00 AM
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PCSing to Korea? What I Wish I’d Known
So your spouse has orders to South Korea, and you are going to make it a family tour. Now that your tickets are booked, transportation has a packing date and you broke the news to the family members that you are headed overseas, what is your next step...
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Fri, Apr 20 2012 10:00 AM
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No Break Doesn’t Make You A Better Mom
Whether you are a stay-at-home parent, working parent, or something in-between, taking care of little ones when your spouse is deployed is a tall order. It’s exhausting. It’s a 24/7 job and often by the end of the day, patience and sanity is lacking,...
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Tue, Apr 03 2012 5:00 AM
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New Survey Seeks to Help Gay MilFams
A gay and *** support organization is asking troops with same-sex partners to take an online survey aimed at gauging what care and benefit challenges the repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has left behind, this story reports. As we’ve discussed before, gay...
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Wed, Apr 04 2012 8:42 AM
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Are Call Center Jobs The Best Spouses Can Expect?
Fifteen thousand jobs earmarked for military spouses sounds awesome. On the first anniversary of Joining Forces–the Michelle Obama/Jill Biden program designed to recognize and honor military families–the First Lady announced a new partnership...
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Thu, Apr 05 2012 7:56 AM
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What Is It Like To Go To War?
Do any of us really want to know what it is like to go to war? Or would we rather that our warriors fold away their wartime experience in a bottom drawer and bring it out as a line on a bio, as family history, as mere fodder for our entertainment? I found...
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Fri, Apr 06 2012 8:33 AM
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A Military Childhood: The Thomason Family
We are a family of five. An 8-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. My husband was deployed for a year to Afghanistan. My eldest was deeply affected by this. The picture I am sending you is when he saw his dad for the first time since he...
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Sun, Apr 08 2012 6:00 AM
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