July 2014 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

The Young Spouses Don’t Care?

“The young spouses just don’t care anymore.” That’s what a friend told me last week as she related her problems with getting volunteers involved in the Family Readiness Group (FRG) in her husband’s Army unit. Once upon a...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

Is Anti-Spouse Bias the Reason for Bad Health Care?

Why are babies born at military hospitals more than twice as likely to be injured during delivery than civilian babies? Why are new mothers at a military hospital more more likely to hemorrhage after childbirth than if they delivered at a civilian hospital...

Published Tue, Jul 01 2014 5:24 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness, kids

Vehicles Gone Missing? The Shipping Problem

Officials with a company newly responsible for shipping service member’s personal operated vehicles (POVs) too and from overseas locations say they have absolutely not lost any vehicles in the process. “Unequivocally we have not lost any vehicles...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2014 7:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Spouse & Family News

Are Military Health Town Halls Just Box Checking?

A series of town hall meetings advertised as a means of hearing from families users as part of Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel’s 90-day military health care system review may feel more like pro-forma events with very little chance for actual concerns to...

Published Thu, Jul 03 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Complete Your Education, Military Spouse!

Why do some students make it to graduation, while others flounder or disappear after a few months? Meeting educational goals is a bit like meeting health objectives, isn’t it? My health club has a special every January when they waive the club initiation...

Published Sun, Jul 06 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education

Behind Huge and Embarrassing Debt

My huge and embarrassing debt is becoming less huge but is still embarrassing. So I contacted Military One Source to get some help from a counselor with the emotional piece of this process. This is the hard part. At the beginning, I wanted the answer...

Published Tue, Jul 08 2014 10:25 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, Legal & Financial, debt, huge and embarrassing debt, debt and military spouse

Poll: Where Should Spouse Experience Go Next?

Our live Military.com Spouse Experience events have done so well this year at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wa. that our bosses want us to do a few more shows. Which is a total...

Published Fri, Jul 11 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

5 Things Military Movers Want You to Know

I am a packer. I work for a moving company, and I go to houses every day and pack military family belongings. I have so much respect for these military families and everything they go through. I enjoy my job… Most of the time. But when I see comments...

Published Mon, Jul 14 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS

Lawmakers Ditch Military Tobacco Discount

A Senate subcommittee July 15 approved a measure that eliminates the discount military members receive when they buy tobacco at the commissary or exchange. Currently, tobacco products are discounted at about 25 percent compared to retailers off base,...

Published Wed, Jul 16 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Three Habits of a New Military Spouse

I was twenty-five and a new Navy wife. Being straight from the Land of Oz, I didn’t know the first thing about the military lifestyle; there were no warships in Kansas! With Uncle Sam as my father-in-law, I took a fresh look at my new role as a military...

Published Sat, Jul 19 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Help for Army Girlfriend With No Contact Point

Can’t you just Google that? So often we expect newbies to military life to be able to Google anything they need to know. And they do. The problem is that when you are just starting military life as a girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, fiancée or MilSo, you...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2014 8:30 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Should Gay Military Spouses Go Overseas Anyway?

Same-sex military partners, many of who cannot accompany their spouse on an overseas PCS because the host country won’t recognize them as dependents, can now get command sponsorship to Italy. Countries that host US military bases have a status of...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2014 3:41 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Spouse & Family News

Should You Send Kids To Online Public School?

As an Air Force spouse for the last 17 years and the mother of three, I have experienced almost every educational option available for military families: homeschooling, traditional public schools, DoD schools and full-time, online public school. Out of...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, kids, online public school, military homeschool

Flag Cake Recipe for Normal People

I’ve been ogling flag cakes for years. Those gorgeously layered, red, white, and blue baked beauties that the instructions swear are easy to make. (I see what you did there, Pinterest. Pulling me in with that “you can do it!” and “don’t...

Published Tue, Jul 01 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, Featured

Military Spouse Teachers: Join the Conversation

I have met so many Military Spouse Teachers like me over the years. I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a high school English teacher. It wasn’t only an interest, but a passion and a calling. When I met my husband, I was more than thrilled to...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, Career & Education, National Board Teaching Certification, teacher, webinar

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