Download or read book Navy Spouse s Guide written by Laura Hall Stavridis and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children? This practical, one-of-a-kind guide fills the gap by helping families navigate the unique challenges of Navy life. Personal, friendly, and easy to use, this updated edition of the original 1997 guide is based on interviews with Navy spouses and a lifetime of lessons learned by the author as a Navy junior and wife of a career naval officer. Using an array of hard-to-find diagrams, charts, facts, and figures from a wide variety of sources, Laura Stavridis explains every aspect of Navy life in a frank, open discussion. The particulars of pay, living expenses, travel, children, emergencies, support groups, and social life, as well as medical, legal, and educational issues are described in an interesting, spouse-to-spouse format. Readers learn what to expect with regard to separation, homecomings, life overseas, shore duty, marital dynamics, and divorce. Also covered are such vital topics as military careers, spousal careers, reenlistment, retirement, and transition to civilian life. Useful phone numbers, checklists, glossary, and an up-to-date primer on the Navy's organization, ships and aircraft, and chain of command complete this unique reference. New to this second edition are discussions of e-mail communication, Internet resources, and spouse leadership roles within the Navy. For anyone starting out or contemplating life with a mate in the sea services this one-volume source of user-friendly information will prove invaluable.
Download or read book Wifeline written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magazine for Navy families.
Download or read book Navy Wife written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impulsive, wounded, vulnerable, Lindy Kyle was unprepared for a roommate like Rush Callaghan. Strong, sensitive and sexy, the temporarily dry-docked naval officer was everything she'd ever dreamed of in a man…in a husband. But Rush placed duty to his country above all else. Though he and Lindy were swept away on a tide of passion, he was called back to sea. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder—but will their marriage survive their partings?
Download or read book We Have This Hope written by Mackenzie Boothe and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's not sugar coat it. Deployment sucks. There are days you have it together, and days you think you won't make it through. Written by a military wife who has been there, We Have This Hope is a mixture of humor and biblical application that will encourage you in this tough time. This devotional has a real-talk approach which will challenge you, but also help you realize that you are equipped to make this journey with God at the helm.
Download or read book Going Overboard written by Sarah Smiley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, Sarah was a typical bride-to-be, flustered with wedding details. Then the groom called. “I don’t want you to panic, but I might not be able to come to our wedding....” So began Sarah Smiley’s life as a military wife. As a former Navy brat herself, Sarah knew better than anyone that weddings and funerals—even childbirth!—take a backseat to Uncle Sam. But just as the young, nationally syndicated columnist was getting comfortable with the military wife’s routine, her husband was sent away for an unexpected deployment. What followed was a true test of strength and wit. From getting locked out of the house in cowgirl pajamas to wrestling with the temptation of infidelity, Sarah exposes it all with candor, heart—and knowing humor.
Download or read book It Had to Be You written by R. J. Howare and published by ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir of a navy wife, Howard captures the powerful spirit of an age, a people and an America now lost. With this work, the author of "Power Steering" has recorded her life as an adventure.
Download or read book The Navy Wife written by Anne Etheldra Briscoe Pye and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life Of A Navy Wife written by Jasa Bowser-Shaw and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasa Shaw was a young married Navy wife at the tender age of 18, learning about the Navy via day-to-day experiences. Some of the experiences were positive, some werenat. But these experiences helped her to realize that Navy wives are a special breed. The old saying about Navy wives, aIt is the toughest job in the Navy, a seemed so clichA(c) before, but it now rings so true. Navy wives do have a tough job and give up so much for their husbandsa careers. This book tells some of the good, the bad, and the ugly, though not necessarily in that order. It also contains some good information and ideas for living the Navy lifestyle. Read and laugh along with Jasa as she tells her experiences, which are relatable to every military wifeas life, and know that you arenat alone!
Download or read book Enlisted and Alone written by Cindy Messer and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of one woman's struggle to adapt to the different military lifestyle of loneliness, patriotism, and being a "married-single parent." It's an account of how love, honor, loyalty, courage, commitment, and resilience helped keep her family together through tough times and marriage to life in Naval Special Warfare.
Download or read book The Perfect Navy Wife written by Adeline "Jo" Puccini and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Navy Wife chronicles almost a half century of Navy life as experienced by a dedicated military family with much to give and even more to lose. After a remarkable career as a naval aviatorA[a¬aflying off fourteen different aircraft carriers in almost every type of aircraft used by the Navy, earning A[a¬Atop gunA[a¬A status in his squadronA[a¬aa husband is assigned to Washington, D.C., to deal with the political aspects of his career. A dAA(c)gagAA(c) ambience between military and political factions leads to tragedy and the Navy wife is expected to rebuild the two lives that are nearly destroyed. One succeeds and one fails. This story depicts the never-ending need to rise above what is tragic and unfair and to move forward. To quote the editor: A[a¬AThis is a fascinating story about two very accomplished peopleA[a¬aa noble venture.A[a¬A
Download or read book More Than a Uniform written by Winifred Quick Collins and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining the Navy in 1942 four days after passage of the law allowing women to serve as commissioned officers, Collins developed procedures for the classification of women officer candidates, helped shape the Navy's personnel policies for women for twenty years, and retired in 1962 with the highest rank a woman could then hold.
Download or read book Navy Brides written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-in-one paperback collection is the complete set of Macomber's popular Navy stories.
Download or read book She Also Served written by Christine Witzel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was daily life like for a Navy officer's wife in California during World War II? In China amid civil war? In London and Europe during the Cold War? She Also Served: Letters from a Navy Wife offers an up-close and personal account of one woman's life during extraordinary times. With an eye for detail and an irrepressible sense of humor, Virgilia Short Witzel (1910-2004) tells the lesser-known stories of the Greatest Generation, those of a woman who served behind the scenes. Through skillful reporting, she reveals the dedication (and stamina) required to protect her family, support her husband's career, and represent the best of America, at home and overseas. Her younger daughter, Christine Witzel, sifted through hundreds of private letters, compiling the most entertaining and historically interesting selections. The result is an eminently readable collection. In the process, Christine, born in 1950, discovers a side of her mother that she had never known as well as a window into history as it unfolded. With her husband stationed in the Pacific, Virgilia moves into the “Snuggery,” a guest cottage behind her parents' home in Menlo Park, California. She plants vegetables in a victory garden, rolls bandages for the Red Cross, and tries to achieve a sense of normalcy for herself and daughter Joanna amid rationing, shortages, and loneliness: “Going to weddings without a man of your own is a very bad business,” she writes. “Whoever wrote that book about living alone and liking it was either a fool or a liar. I can see why some women rent escorts! Come on home before I set a trap for the milkman!” (July 4, 1943) Organizing a wartime birthday party is no easy affair: Woolworth's replaces candy counters with book displays, her favorite bakery won't take orders, and nowhere can she find white cotton socks for Joanna. “Can you imagine such a thing?” she writes. (July 20, 1943) An English major at University of California at Berkeley, Virgilia almost lands a newspaper job. “Mr. Willis (at the Menlo Park Gazette) was willing to give me a week's trial writing the society news, but his wife said no, so that was that.” (Sept. 8, 1943) After wartime privation, Virgilia joins her husband in Shanghai in November 1946, where she relishes opulent accommodations, servants, and panoramic views offering “ box seats for a continual newsreel.” The “singing stevedores” captivate her. The tune is “halfway between a chant and a yodel, and in rhythm with their steps, gradually slowing down to one note as the load reaches the bottom of the truck.” Based in London from 1953 to 1955 (the era portrayed in the “Call the Midwife” and “Bletchley Circle” TV series), Virgilia and her family explore postwar Europe. She brings her sharp eyes to a Buckingham Palace garden party, where she encounters Sir Winston Churchill and Billy Graham. She applauds the elegance of upper-class British women but is less than taken with the Royal Family. “The Queen is much smaller than she appears in photographs and also looked older and more tired than we had expected.” … Princess Margaret (“looking rather bored and sullen” en route) “is very small and the Queen M is just as short but very fat and quite un-aristocratic looking. The Duke is really a dish—very tall, very slender and full of personality.” Describing Billy Graham, she writes: “His skin is as smooth and fine-textured as a child's and some friends wondered if he had on pancake makeup. He's like a matinée idol—very tall, blond and glamorous. His wife looked pretty much like the usual parson's wife.” (July 24, 1955) Virgilia was a brilliant social reporter, and Mr. Willis erred grievously by failing to hire her. Recognizing her mother's talent, Christine Witzel opens her letters to new audiences.
Download or read book Navy Woman written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy attorney Catherine Fredrickson loved her job at a submarine base in Washington, but her new boss, Royce Nyland, had her spirits sinking fast. The icy widower was distant, demanding…and incredibly attractive. And though he kept her at arm's length, he aroused a stormy passion in Catherine that was impossible to deny. Already struggling to keep afloat while caring for his energetic daughter, Royce didn't need any more distractions—especially not in the form of an appealing woman! Though the laws of the sea deemed naval fraternizing strictly taboo, how long could Royce resist romance when just the sight of Catherine capsized his vulnerable heart?
Download or read book STILL ON THE ROAD written by Barbara O'Neill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-10-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a Navy Dependant who lived over seas in “GITMO” and would like to share how military life can be, To The general Public. I know other Military Personal can Relate to my story, For I am sure it will bring back memories for them. In my travels there are bits and pieces of History, My family and I have been associated with.
Download or read book SEA LEGS written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
