By Matthew D. LaPlante, The Salt Lake Tribune She never doubted her decision to serve in the Army. Not as she watched the spotlights dance across Baghdad Airport Road while fellow soldiers urgently searched for hidden bombs. Not as she trembled in a crowded bunker through an extended barrage of mortar explosions. Not when a […]

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. […]

Here’s a nice post from an Army girlfriend frustrated because her boyfriend is home from deployment but they live in different places and she can’t see him yet. You can read her blog here. Yes Virginia…there is such a thing as PDB. My Army Acronym for Post Deployment Blues. I think mine are unique in […]

This is a post by Brittany, an Army wife who has survived her husband’s second deployment. You can read her blog here. This is SO DIFFERENT than last time. Different, and in so many ways, better. But different none the less. My husband is super-husband, a change from what I was used to the last […]

About 3,500 troops participated in a deployment ceremony at Fort Riley on Thursday. The troops are headed to Northern Iraq over the next two weeks and will assist with security forces in Iraq. The deployment is planned for a year. Family members say electronic communication and support groups at Fort Riley helps them deal with […]

Capt. Lacey Johnson likes the restaurants of Fayetteville and Spring Lake – she can tick off lots of favorites – but she loves the pet services that are available locally to take care of her calico cat. “I don’t have children,” she said. “The biggest thing for me is my pets.” The 25-year-old military intelligence […]

From FOX News In an effort to address the mental health problems of some combat troops, the U.S. Army wants all of its 1.1 million soldiers to start taking emotional resiliency classes. The new $117 million dollar program is based on the research of Dr. Martin Seligman, chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology […]

By Seth Robson / Stars and Stripes While the Army has been working to gauge the mental health toll of multiple deployments on soldiers, some Army leaders and spouses say the service is moving too slowly to address similar effects on military family members. Spouses face day-to-day pressure while soldiers are away and very little is […]

By Noah Shachtman / Wired The Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, Danger Room has learned. That move reverses a years-long trend of blocking the web 2.0 locales on military networks. Army public affairs managers have worked hard to share the service’s […]

From the Associated Press: The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said the […]