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Preparing for an Overseas Move

Receiving orders to relocate overseas can be exciting and intimidating all at the same time. For some, the prospect of moving to a foreign country can be scary-how will I communicate? Will I see be able to visit family? Will I be able to acclimate to a new culture? However,...
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Ideas of Items to Send to Deployed Military

My husband has been overseas for deployments multiple times during our marriage. Some of these were during war, some not. Each time he went there were things he missed from home that he wasn’t able to buy on the base there or didn’t have access to at all. When he...
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Joining the Military at an Older Age

My husband first joined the Military when he was 19 and got out when he was 21. We met when he was 25, got married, had a child and he re-joined at age 30. We made the decision for him to join the Army again together. We already had a...
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Our Top Picks for the Next Station We Head to.

As we head into 2+ years of Army service now, my husband is getting ready to reenlist. And this means that we have to decide where we might like to be next. Obviously that doesn’t always work in the military. For instance, where we are now. We did not choose...
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Rent vs Own: Housing in the Military

Four years ago, we owned our own home as civilians. My husband was out of the Marines, we’d moved back to our hometown, and felt like we were ready to buy. Two years later with the housing market crash and dead end jobs, we realized it was a very poor choice. We...
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Best Books for Military Wives

When my husband first joined the Army, I wanted to read all I could on what it was like to be a military wife. I bought a few books and over the last few years I have read a few more. Here are my favorites: 1) Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement...
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Why you should blog during a deployment

If you have ever thought about starting a blog, a deployment might be a good time to start. I started my first Army wife blog during my husband’s second deployment. We were in Germany and I really wanted to share some of what I had been through. I figured there...
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Making the Best of a Duty Station You Didn’t Want.

Two years ago, I waited with breathless anticipation for where my husband would get his first official station from the Army. Six years before in the Marines, he’d been stationed at Camp Pendleton and I moved there, then he got out of active duty and we moved home. There was no choice...
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Dealing with Military Disappointment

My husband re-joined the Army in late 2005 after being out for about 8 years. During that time he met me, we got married and had our first little boy. So when he joined he did not have to repeat basic and got to pick where he wanted to be...
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Benefits of a Deployment

When I hear the word deployment I think about loneliness, saying goodbye, war and missing the person I love. When it comes time to get ready for a deployment, I want to find ways to make it more tolerable. One way to do that is to look at all the...
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