Archives for the ‘Communication’ Category

The Seven Dwarfs of Deployment

By • Apr 8th, 2010 • Category: Communication, Parenting, Passing the Time, Post-Deployment, Relationships

Here’s a funny post from Army wife Sarah, looking back on some memorable moments in the deployments she has survived. You can read her blog here. I know most of you have seen Snow White, so you are familiar with Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Doc, Bashful, Sleepy and Grumpy, the seven dwarfs. Little did you know […]



Talking About Killing May Help Veterans

By • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Civilian Support, Combat Stress, Communication, In the Press, Relationships

By James Dao / The New York Times The act of killing is as fundamental to war as oxygen is to fire. Yet it is also the one thing many combat veterans avoid discussing when they return home, whether out of shame, guilt or a deep fear of being misunderstood. But a new study of […]



One Spouse’s View of Deployment

By • Jan 15th, 2010 • Category: Civilian Support, Communication, Passing the Time, Post-Deployment, Relationships

This is a post by Jennifer Chaloux, an Army wife whose husband was deployed in January 2008. You can read the original article here. I wrote the following so people might have a glimpse into what we go through emotionally, and have a better understanding of a day in a life of an Army wife. […]



Is Deployment a Great Way to Spend Christmas? It Depends.

By • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Communication, Featured, Relationships

The following post was written by Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol, of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs Department. You can read his orginal article here. It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Christmas morning and I’m waiting for a flight that will take me through Afghanistan and then over to my deployed location in Southwest Asia. […]



A Year After Deployment – He’s Still Not the Same.

By • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, Post-Deployment, Relationships

It’s been a year since Paul came home from Afghanistan. Last year, on the week before Christmas, Kelly & I were busy making preparations to pick Paul & Mark up from the airport together. We bought new clothes; we made hotel and restaurant reservations for the homecoming weekend; we counted the hours, minutes and seconds […]



Why Your Soldier May be Bossy, Rude, Loud, Insensitive, Power-Hungry or Angry…

By • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Combat Stress, Communication, Featured, Relationships

  This post was written by Eddie Black, a former Marine and current National Guardsman. It was written to explain the military culture to new military spouses. Indoctrination We are a nation of many colors, religions, and ethnicities. Joining the military means giving up much of this and assuming a new identity. It takes a lot […]



I became part of the Deployment…

By • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Combat Stress, Communication, Post-Deployment, Relationships

I received an email today from an Army Commander who had just learned that Paul and I divorced. He told me that he was planning a relationship workshop for his troops, who are currently deployed. I wrote back, telling him that I thought it was a wonderful – and much needed – idea. Then, as I mulled over […]



Military Tries to Predict PTSD

By • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, In the Press, Relationships

Military Experiment Seeks to Predict PTSD By Alicia Chang / Associated Press Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. Smiling kids embracing a soldier. A dog sniffing blood oozing […]



Can PTSD Be Eliminated?

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, In the Press, Relationships

The Sensitive Soldier: Can US troops be rewired to be impervious to trauma? In the wake of Fort Hood, Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum launched a groundbreaking program to eliminate PTSD. By Gail Sheehy / The Daily Beast “How am I going to get people to focus not on tragedy, but on resilience?” Brigadier General Rhonda […]



For my Soldier Ex-Husband, on Veteran’s Day

By • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, Post-Deployment, Relationships

Today is Veteran’s Day. And your 33rd birthday. I guess there was no way to avoid thinking about you today. But the truth is, I think about you a lot. I think about you every time I update this blog. Every time there’s a story in the news about a soldier that was killed; or […]




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