August 2014 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Moving in High School? Worst Advice We Give Our Teens

Moving in high school? Then you are probably a military teen. According to the National Military Family Association, military children will say good-bye to more significant people by age 18 than the average person will in their lifetime. Tell that to...

Published Thu, Aug 14 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS

New Adultery Rules For Military Spouses?

If marriage in the military is equal, then divorce should be equal, too. We have rules about adultery for service members, why not have adultery rules for military spouses, too? I think it is a problem. I’ve spent my whole life in the Navy. I grew...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2014 5:02 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Hidden PTSD Symptoms You May Be Missing

“I really couldn’t tell if it was me or the PTSD,” said Angela* an Army wife. “It didn’t matter. He wasn’t going to live here any more without seeing a therapist.” Angela told me that her husband had come home from his third combat deployment a few months...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Reintegration, Military Life, PTSD, military marriage

Help Me: The Back-to-School Missing Parent Void

My 5-year-old got on the school bus for the first time ever recently for his three-quarter mile ride to our local elementary school. He had his Lightening McQueen backpack filled with school supplies, his clothes laid out for when he woke-up, his lunchbox...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

Back To School Mommy: 5 Lifehacks for Your Military Family

When Mommy (or Daddy) goes back to school in a military family, all hell can break loose at home. It is a Law of Nature, people. In order to add big things to family life, something’s gotta give. You as a student need time to go to class if you are going...

Published Sun, Aug 17 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education

Open Access Bases to Require Visitor Passes Again

If you have the pleasure of living on a base where visitors simply show their drivers licenses to get on, or you count on showing yours when you forget your DoD ID card at home, that’s about to change. A new DoD background check system will eventually...

Published Tue, Aug 19 2014 5:04 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

MilSpouse Honored by White House as ‘Champion of Change’

The White House is honoring a set of veterans and military spouses Aug 27 as part of the Obama administration’s Champions of Change program. Adrianna Domingos-Lupher, founder of MSB New Media and NextGen MilSpouse, is the only active duty military...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2014 4:35 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Why Don’t You Have a Plan B, Soldier?

“Always, always have a Plan B,” a SpouseBuzz reader advised an Army wife whose husband was recently passed over. “We serve at the pleasure of the President, and, as has been said by other posters, no one’s full career is guaranteed.” That is some...

Published Wed, Aug 20 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: transition

Your Perfect Time for College? Try Now!

You want a degree and you have waited for the right time to get started. Supporting your spouse’s military career, raising children, a move on the horizon – it’s easy to postpone your goals when you’re taking care of others. When will it be your turn...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, Career & Education, military spouse education, back to college

What I Love About Recruiting Duty

You’re already thinking “I’ve heard that recruiting duty is horrible. What could there possibly be to love about it?” When my husband called to tell me he was put on the HSST list (or as I like to call it, the hit list), then later...

Published Sun, Aug 31 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Law Gives Dependent GI Bill Users In-State Tuition

A bill recently signed into law makes it so anyone using the post-9/11 GI Bill will receive in-state tuition rates regardless of how long they have lived in the state. The federal government can’t force states to charge students a specific rate...

Published Wed, Aug 20 2014 5:00 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education, Spouse & Family News

Five Tips for Cleaning Military Uniforms

Because camouflage doesn’t clean itself. And, for reasons I don’t understand (and, for the record, don’t like), the ‘don’t touch my gear‘ rule seems to apply to everything but the dirty cammies. The piles of questionable...

Published Sun, Aug 24 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Lifestyle

How Do YOU Get Ready For Back To School?

Back to school time starts in our house when I scrawl Edgar W. Howe’s immortal wisdom on my chalkboard: “If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” This...

Published Wed, Aug 06 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, kids

Top 10 Worst ManSpouse Stereotypes

A few weeks ago SpouseBuzz ran another Lady List — this time on stereotypes military spouses hate the most. But what about us dudes? The list I have compiled is a familiar list, things you don’t say to a military spouse because we hate them...

Published Sat, Aug 30 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

We Got the Pink Slip – And We’re Okay

Every time I see a story like this one about another service member getting pushed out and another family getting the pink slip, my stomach turns. Partially out of fear (because I know that sinking feeling all too well), but mostly out of solidarity,...

Published Sun, Aug 24 2014 5:00 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com