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A War Widow With no Benefits
Imagine your servicemember dies. Imagine no one notifies you. Imagine you learn from his sister — not from a uniformed pair at your doorstep. Imagine you get no honors as a widow of a fallen servicemember, no recognition, no folded flag and no death...
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Mon, Jan 07 2013 11:21 AM
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YDU: Where To Find Help After Miscarriage
Miscarriage is not unusual among military spouses. According to the the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, up to 25% of clinically recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. That doesn’t make it easy. When you combine a miscarriage...
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Wed, Jan 09 2013 6:58 AM
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Military Life
What Does a Spouse Deserve at Military Retirement?
I know military spouses don’t have an actual retirement from military life. However, there is this place during a military retirement ceremony where the contribution of the spouse is supposed to be mentioned. What does she deserve then? Personally, I...
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Fri, Jan 11 2013 10:19 AM
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Death Star a No Go, But What About Social Activism?
Perhaps you already heard, but if you’re a Star Wars fan I want to break it to you softly: just because you believe in the ultimate defense system, neither the DoD or the American Government will be building a “Death Star”. Crushing...
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Mon, Jan 14 2013 11:00 AM
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YDU: Give Up The Planner!
I like to know things. I like to be prepared. I like to have a plan. In college, my planner was my Bible. Everything was written down followed by little check boxes, so I could track my progress. Planning allowed me to be in control. And I like control...
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Wed, Jan 16 2013 10:00 AM
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Confession: I’m Jealous of Your Normal
OK, that’s probably a lie. Your normal is probably pretty much the same as my normal. And I am not jealous of that at all. You’ve got deployment, reintegration, sudden change of plans, unplanned injuries, PCS’es, TDYs and the rest of the alphabet...
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Fri, Jan 18 2013 9:00 AM
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Army Senior Enlisted? Better Transfer that GI Bill Now
As the war in Afghanistan draws to a close, the talk among the service branches has focused on “trimming the fat” in order to downsize their forces. Specifically, the soldiers who have engaged in the last 11 years of multiple warfronts and a continued...
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Mon, Jan 21 2013 10:58 AM
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YDU: I’d be Sad When the Uninjured Soldiers Came Home?
The flight that my husband’s friends come home on is this weekend. This would be my husband’s flight if he hadn’t been hurt during his unit’s deployment to Afghanistan over last year. He was shot through the knee by an Afghan in a Green on Blue incident...
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Wed, Jan 23 2013 10:00 AM
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Gay Military Spouses and Acceptance in Your Unit
It’s been more than sixteen months since Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed and openly gay service members have been allowed to serve. According to military officials the change has gone pretty smoothly, with little of the feared negative...
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Fri, Jan 25 2013 10:00 AM
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Top 5 Ways to be a Great Military PCS Sponsor
Every time my family has PCS’ed, we were assigned a sponsor. You know, that voluntold servicemember or volunteer spouse who cheerfully sends you informational packets detailing the ins and outs of your next duty station, the person who willingly sacrifices...
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Mon, Jan 28 2013 10:00 AM
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How to Get Banned Pups on Base (Without Breaking the Rules)
It was puppy-love at first sight. My pre-teen friendship with my Gordon Setter, Taffy (full name: Salt Water Taffy Brite Star), was the kind you read about in books like Where the Red Fern Grows and Lad, a Dog. Military life notwithstanding, I knew that...
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Wed, Jan 30 2013 4:00 AM
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YDU: Being a Spouse Makes me Invisible
This last deployment I realized I was invisible. Servicemembers sit through trainings and briefings on the signs and symptoms of depression they need to be aware of so they can help themselves and their battle buddies before it is too late. Spouses get...
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Wed, Jan 02 2013 10:00 AM
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Deployment
Why Everyone Hates the FRG
It was a phrase I found myself saying on repeat over the months I was our unit’s Family Readiness Group Leader. “This – THIS – is why people hate the FRG.” The power plays. The spotlight grabs. The desperate attempts to be the sole provider of information...
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Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:00 AM
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Dad PCSes, Mom Adopts Out Child
When Army Staff Sgt. Terry Achane was accepted into the Army’s Drill Sgt. school, he left his pregnant wife behind in Texas while he PCSed to South Carolina. The couple’s communication was, at the very least, not very good, and the pair gives...
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Sun, Jan 06 2013 11:00 PM
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Spouse & Family News
Commissary: Still a Savings Despite the Surcharge?
Confession: I’m not a terribly observant person, especially when I’m in a hurry. So it was like a bolt of lightening had hit me the day I noticed, several years into my military life, that the commissary charges a surcharge. Excuse me? I thought...
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Wed, Jan 09 2013 5:00 AM
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