Oct
30
Things That Break During Deployment
October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
Before Any Sailor or Soldier Leaves for a deployment there are many things that should be done before the big day comes. Something always breaks during a deployment and the Spouse left on land is usually left to fix them. Here is a short list of just a few of those things:
One: The family car [...]
Oct
29
A Photo A Day
October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
There is a great feature now-a-day called internet and an equally wonderful technology called the digital photograph. Together these tools can be wonderful and they can be horrible. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of utilizing these tools while your loved one is deployed.
File Sizes – There is nothing more frustrating than [...]
Oct
26
Care Packages Say ‘I Love You’
October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
Care packages are a great morale boaster during a deployment. They are almost the equivalent of trophies in some cases. These are bits of love that travel all the way from home and scream ‘I Love You’, or ‘I am thinking of you!’ and ‘I care about you!’
With some planning, care packages can be as [...]
Oct
23
Tricare: Adding a Spouse
October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Congratulations! You just got married! One of the first tasks after the honeymoon and gifts is to get your military identification card and then enroll in Tricare. Getting your military ID is typically pretty simple. Your spouse will need to take a certified copy of the marriage certificate to Personnel Support Detachment (PSD) in order to register [...]
Oct
19
Military Childcare
October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
Most bases have a Child Development Center (CDC) as well as childcare homes. Anyone with access to the base has access to the CDC on base. Navy CDCs are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which is a difficult accreditation to receive. As a result of this accreditation, many [...]
Oct
17
All In A Day
October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
There are so many things to consider in supporting a spouse that is heading out overseas, whether on a ship, on an overseas posting, subject to a recall to active duty and heading to a ground position in support of the other service branches. There are so many things to consider. Both sides will feel [...]
Oct
15
Settling In After Deployment
October 15, 2009 | 7 Comments
Those first few hours, first few days, are chaotic. The inclination to celebrate, to over indulge the children with gifts, toys, eating out, letting them stay up late, so very tempting. When you get home, when the spouse gets home, all the wants relate to celebrating their return. All of these leading to natural tendencies [...]
Oct
6
Coming Home After Deployment
October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Coming home is the reason to make it through a cruise or long time away on a deployment. Able to see the kids, sometimes meet a new family member for the first time, get life back into a scant and brief semblance of normality. All and other reasons are cause to celebrate returning to Home [...]
Oct
4
Putting Up The Good Front
October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Keeping up a good front is vital to a successful military career. Essentially speaking, making sure your deployed spouse, child, parent, what ever the case might be, making sure that they feel everything is fine at home. Certainly there will be times when it is not. So when your spouse and 2 young children have [...]
Oct
4
Family Issues During Deployment
October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Before they leave there has to be a plan of some kind. Some way in case something goes wrong that the at home spouse can have a list to go to when things are bad.
The top of the list has to be the Command Ombudsman. This is the liaison, the go between, for the families [...]
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