Download or read book Life Hacks for Military Spouses written by Allison Wood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful collection of tips and tricks for getting the most out of the nomadic military lifestyle. Told through humorous anecdotes by those with years of unique experiences, these life hacks reveal a special culture with expectations and numerous obstacles to be faced along the way. Military life boasts of travel to exotic places, immersion in the worldly cultures, and cuisine that most Americans can only dream about . . . and on the government’s dime, to boot! At least, that’s what the common perception is. But those who have served know that while the above may be true, military life comes with its own set of challenges and can be a hardship as much as it is rewarding. Here to help is the advice, guidance, and personal stories of spouses from all walks of life, in stages from the newlywed to the retired and properly salty. They share tips on overcoming the numerous obstacles, and navigating the special culture, traditions, and the one-of-a-kind lingo of military service. Gathered mostly from those who are affiliated with the military, but also from those with similar diplomatic lifestyles, the anecdotes reveal the special bond they share with their fellow spouses, and the wisdom gained to pass to the next generation. The very special illustrations were created by a talented Air Force wife, and reflect both the strong beauty and earnestness of those who are engaged in our nation’s most serious business, and yet, have learned not take themselves too seriously.

Download or read book Help I m a Military Spouse I Get a Life Too written by Kathie Hightower and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The" handbook for improving the lives of military spouses

Download or read book Modern Military Spouse written by Lauren Tamm and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's take the guesswork out of military life! Join me, along with hundreds of other military spouses, and grab your copy of Modern Military Spouse today. It has everything you need to survive the ups and downs of military life! After reading this book, you will be able to... - Prepare and navigate PCS moves, military homecomings and military deployments easier. - Understand terms, acronyms and abbreviations all in one convenient location. - Gain instant access to over 22+ printable checklists. - Learn how to navigate getting an education and managing your career as a military spouse. - Build a budget that will work for your military family, using our step-by-step guide for finances and a downloadable spreadsheet. - Learn the keys to nurturing a military marriage that will survive the challenges of military life. - Help your child through military life using key resources and best tips for parenting military kids. Here's what's included: 14 comprehensive chapters 20+ printable documents and checklists (Including deployment, PCS, marriage, and resume). Receive a link in the book to download the printables. 3 bonus sections (Including acronyms, abbreviations, and terms) What you'll learn: When You Don't Have a Ring What to Do When Your Service Member's Gone Preparing for a Successful Military Marriage Creating a Budget That Works Hitting the Books Military-Style Military Proofing Your Career Building a Strong Support Network Becoming a Good Military Spouse Navigating Military Life with Kids Step-by-Step to PCS Moving and Living Overseas Using Social Media Safely Complete List of Resources for Spouses Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Terms Defined And more! "Jo, JD, and Lauren did the hard work for all of us! They took an overwhelming amount of confusing and out-of-date information for military spouses and turned it into a fun, modern book. This guide helps you understand military life and find the resources you are looking for." - Jen Pilcher, Founder, MilitaryOneClick.com "Finally! A military spouse handbook that I can recommend to new spouses! This book is the friend I wish I had when I was a young Navy wife. I wouldn't have felt so alone, so unusual and so un-military if someone would have given me Modern Military Spouse along with my dependent ID. Modern Military Spouse is a mentor, a drinking buddy, and a confidant for today's military spouse." - Michelle Volkmann, managing editor, NextGen MilSpouse

Download or read book Married to the Military written by Meredith Leyva and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unofficial Scoop on Military Life Whether you're dating, engaged, or married to an active military servicemember or reservist -- or you've just signed up yourself -- you may feel as if you've somehow married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books for him, there are almost no handy, user-friendly resources for you. Meredith Leyva, a military wife and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet's largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform, details everything you need to know to manage day-to-day issues and get on with the adventure of military life. From relocation to deployment, protocol to finances, and career to kids, Leyva offers time-tested advice about: ? Keeping your love life together during deployments ? Relocating yourself and your family around the world ? Maintaining your own career when you're expected to move every three years ? Understanding what pay and benefits you're entitled to -- and how to maximize them ? Translating those odd acronyms and jargon Written by a seasoned military wife, this smart and savvy guide will help you take control at every point of your servicemember's career -- from filing marriage papers as newlyweds to choosing prenatal and child care when you start a family to figuring out his pension when he's ready to retire.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Life as a Military Spouse written by Lissa Mcgrath and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For better, for worse, for Uncle Sam . . . Today’s military has changed dramatically—and spouses need to be prepared. Approximately half of our 1.4 million fighting men and women are married. And for a military spouse, information and support are not easy to find. Included here is: • How to enroll in the Child Development Homes program • What to do before a permanent change of station (PCS) • How to prepare for the deployment—and the return—of a spouse • Easy ways to calculate benefits, allowances, and special pays

Download or read book Help I m a Military Spouse I Want a Life Too written by Kathie Hightower and published by Potomac Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help! I'm a Military Spouseis not a book about being the perfect military spouse. And it's not about rebelling against military life. It's about creatively taking advantage of the military life's opportunities to fulfill one's own dreams. Military lifestyle columnists, workshop presenters and longtime military spouses themselves, Kathie Hightower and Holly Scherer show how to tap into the richness and possibilities of a life with the military. Their positive, practical tips include: -Five keys to happiness for a life with the military -Fifty tips to maintain energy and lower stress -Seventy creative and practical ways to follow one's dreams Updated to address the latest issues, this ultimate self-help book is for anyone engaged to someone in the military, for the new military spouse, and for the longer-term spouse frustrated by the unique challenges of the military lifestyle.

Download or read book Open When written by Lizann Lightfoot and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of reassuring, informative letters for military spouses offers encouraging words and practical advice about many aspects of military life. Readers choose topics and letters to read when they need guidance tailored to the military life situations they are facing, from planning a military wedding, to attending their first military ball, giving birth while a spouse is deployed, moving across country (or an ocean) on short notice, making friends in a new community, preparing to leave active duty, and many other moments in between. Author Lizann Lightfoot is a professional writer, military spouse, and mother of five. Her Open When letters are based on her experiences as a girlfriend, fiancée, and wife through two decades of her Marine husband's service, seven deployments, and several military moves. She is known in the military community as The Seasoned Spouse for sharing her experience with other military loved ones on her blog of the same name"--

Download or read book Military Spouse Journey written by Kathie Hightower and published by Elva Resa. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Spouse Journey will help you craft your best life possible The unique components of military life can make it challenging for military spouses to pursue careers and other personal dreams. This encouraging book, written by two experienced military spouses, shares lessons learned, success stories of fellow military spouses, life exploration exercises, and research-based ideas that can be applied to any stage of life's journey. Although this book shares examples specific to military life, the information and approach can be used by anyone to pursue your life dreams. Ready to follow your dreams? This book will help you: - Learn five keys to happiness you can apply every day, anywhere. - Explore your passions, strengths, and goals. - Discover possibilities for the life you want to live. - Create an action plan to move forward, even when you think it's impossible. - Build valuable friendships and support systems along the way. - Enjoy the journey

Download or read book Under the Sabers written by Tanya Biank and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Sabers is a groundbreaking narrative detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, presenting a provocative new look at Army life. Tanya Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an Army wife—from hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new duty station when your husband is in the field, to comforting your son who wants his dad home from Afghanistan for his fifth birthday—she takes readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. In the summer of 2002, Army wives were in the headlines after Biank, a military reporter for the Fayetteville Observer, made international news when she broke the story about four Army wives who were brutally murdered by their husbands in the span of six weeks at Fort Bragg, an Army post that is home to the Green Berets, Airborne paratroopers, and Delta Force commandos. By that autumn, Biank, an Army brat herself, realized the still untold story of Army wives lay in the ashes of that tragic and sensationalized summer. She knew the truth—wives were the backbone of the Army. They were strong—not helpless—and deserved more than the sugarcoating that often accompanied their stories in the media. Under the Sabers tells the story of four typical Army wives, who, in a flash, find themselves neck-deep in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and Army wives. In this fascinating and meticulously researched account, Biank takes the reader past the Army's gates, where everyone has a role to play, rules are followed, discipline is expected, perfection praised, and perception often overrides reality. Biank explores what happens when real life collides with Army convention. Biank describes what it means to be a wife and mother in a subculture that is in a constant state of readiness for war. In this hard-hitting and powerful book, Biank takes a close look at the other woman—the Army itself—and its impact on wives, marriages, and home life. This story of strength and perseverance is an eye-opener for those who have never experienced military life and an anthem to those women who each day live the "unwritten code."

Download or read book Army Wives written by Tanya Biank and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells the story of four typical Army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and wives. This is a true story about what happened when real life collided with army convention. Army Wives is a groundbreaking narrative that takes the reader beyond the Army's gates, taking a close look at the other woman—the Army itself—and how its traditions, rules and war-time realities deeply impact marriage and home life.

Download or read book Wake Up Kick Ass Repeat written by Kendra Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path Dr. Kendra Lowe has walked as a cadet at the Air Force Academy as an active duty service member, and now as a military spouse, has given her a front-row seat to many of the traumas, setbacks, successes, discriminations, and celebrations that military families experience. These experiences fueled ten years of research aimed at better understanding military spouse stress and how bad the stress really is, as well as the unique contributing factors of the military lifestyle. Most significant were the findings that 27 percent of military spouses report significantly high levels of stress, while 20 percent have a higher, clinically significant, level of stress. In other words, approximately one in four military spouses wake up every day under a heavy layer of stress that builds day by day, week by week, and year by year. Unfortunately, many military spouses perceive this stress as normal, unaware of how dangerously close they are to clinically significant levels of emotional, social, or physical distress. Wake up, Kick Ass, Repeat was created to help alleviate these significant concerns. This comprehensive and invaluable tool will help you accept the unique nature of military life, anticipate and persevere in the face of social-emotional setbacks, practice effective coping strategies, and learn to thrive on to new possibilities. Dr. Kendra has expertly woven research, personal anecdotes, powerful stories from other military spouses, as well as practical principals of Rational Behavioral Therapy to help individuals work through stressful situations while maintaining better emotional control. This is a must-have book for military and first responder spouses, their family members, professionals working with military and first responder families, as well as anyone seeking to find a way to help themselves to better social and emotional health. Dr. Kendra also includes thoughtful questions and exercises that any individual or group can put to immediate use.

Download or read book 101 Tips for Military Spouses written by Beth Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a fact! Military living is not an easy life. Military relocation issues such as enrolling the kids in new schools or finding a new place to live, can become burdensome and easily confusing. Deployments are frustrating and a growing cause of spousal mental health issues. Healthcare is ever changing for the veteran spouse and new spouses are rarely informed. Military housing is a common news feature these days with it's ghetto appearances and pest infestations. Military spouses undergo severe changes in jobs, employment, and parenthood that escalate stress and panic related disorders. But there is a way to cope, to make military life a little easier, in fact, there are 101 ways! 101 Military Living Tips provides quick and useful advice, resources, and important information at your fingertips made especially for military spouses by Beth Mahoney, a military brat turned wife and mother with over 30+ years of military life.

Download or read book Intro to Army Life written by Allison Mewes and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to get through the FIRST YEARS as an army spouse or significant other. Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition.No one hands you a guidebook when you enter Army life; you either learn the hard way or stumble upon resources on your own . . . until now. Intro to Army Life gives you the tools and resources necessary to make your transition into the Army lifestyle easier, less stressful and more fun. You don't have to learn the hard way--all the information you need is here, ready to help you make the transition. Along with engaging personal narrative and stories, this book includes:-Army hierarchy and social structure-15 tips for dealing with a deployment-Perks of a military ID-Top 25 Army acronyms-Military discounts and how to find them-Top 10 resources for military children-Fun facts, such as where the term military brat originated-and much moreIntro to Army Life is a North American Book Award winner, and a must-read for any military spouse or significant other.

Download or read book 50 Things to Know About Being a Military written by Eat Like a Local and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are many stereotypes about military spouses, there are a lot of things most people simply don't know or don't understand until they've become part of the military community.Maybe you're new to being a military spouse, maybe you just met someone and you aren't married yet, but things are heading in that direction, maybe you're a veteran who is now a military spouse, or maybe you're what we call a 'seasoned' military spouse just looking for new reading material. You might have joined the facebook groups or tried to meet friends at your military installation but part of you is still lonely, or you need validation for how you're feeling. In this book, you might read some tips you never knew, or you'll sit there nodding your head saying "yes girl!" or maybe you'll be raising one eyebrow thinking I'm totally off base. In any situation, you and I and every military spouse out there, knows there is something different about how we live our lives and this book is just a compilation of things we should know, wish we would have known sooner, and even things we wish other people would know about us.

Download or read book Stories Around the Table written by More than 40 military family writers and published by Elva Resa Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opening it up to any random story will make you feel humbled, grateful, and best of all, not alone."—Anette Radonski, Military Spouse JD Network Conversations are the heart of a gathering among friends. In Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, military spouses, parents, children, and service members gather together to laugh, cry, lend perspective, and share personal stories from their military life experience. From poignant to practical, tragic to humorous, these candid conversations from friends old and new shed heartfelt insight on many aspects of military life: ~ friendship, depression, romance in military marriage, caring for children with special needs in a mobile lifestyle, renewing relationships after deployment, career challenges for spouses, changing schools, post-traumatic stress, faith, grief, and so much more ~ "... will touch your heart."—Phil Paleologos, WBSM "Awesome ... like being with friends."—Leon Francis, KFYR "... you will find yourself laughing, remembering, or grabbing a tissue and pausing to reflect on something that grabs at your heart and won’t let go ..."—Kathleen M. Rodgers, Military Spouse Book Review "Marvelous ... really important book."—Frank Gaffney, Secure Freedom Radio "You will derive strength from it."—Jim Bohannon, The Jim Bohannon Show Award-Winning Book! Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Silver Midwest Book Awards Finalist

Download or read book The League of Wives written by Heath Hardage Lee and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down." — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves “feminists,” but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone’s must-read list.

Download or read book A Family s Guide to the Military For Dummies written by Sheryl Garrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert advice on all aspects of military life A Family's Guide to the Military For Dummies is for the millions of military dependents, family members, and friends who are looking for straightforward guidance to take advantage of the benefits and overcome the challenges unique to life in the military. This comprehensive guide covers such key topics as introducing military life to readers new to the armed forces, financial planning, relocation, deployment, raising kids alone while a partner is away, and taking advantage of the available benefits. It offers tips and advice for dealing with emotions that surround events like deployments, deciphering the acronyms used in daily military life, forming support groups, keeping track of a loved one's whereabouts, and surviving on a military base in a foreign country.