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How Texas Could Pave The Way For Military Family Law

A lot of focus is placed on the difficulty associated with military families transferring schools during a PCS or deployment, but the military community faces problems with school bureaucracy at other times as well. Not every school district is lax with rules and regulations, and spending time with a parent they don’t often see because [...]

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How to Cope When Deployment Means Missing Family Milestones

The Internet has become an incredibly important tool for the military community to document and share their experiences. Personal blogs and social media have given everyone an opportunity to share their story. National Guard wife Ali Gibbs uses her blog, Better Together, as a springboard for her thoughts and feelings. And that insight can amount [...]

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Online Hate: When Internet Users Criticize Servicemembers

My husband often complains when people stop and thank him when he is in uniform. He says, “I’m just doing my job, it makes me uncomfortable for people to thank me for doing my job.” I understand that to a degree. He feels like there are so many servicemembers who have died, suffered and sacrificed [...]

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See You Soon: How Deployment Changes Your Habits

Deployment is a large adjustment for a couple. The military service member might usually have had certain responsibilities at home that the spouse must now undertake. Because deployment is a change, some spouses might decide to keep the household as similar as possible to normal, but others might choose to do things differently. Whether or [...]

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Military Spouses Share Tips for a Successful Homecoming

One of the most anxiety-ridden times for a military family is right before homecoming. There is often a high level of uncertainty about how the service member responded to the difficulties of deployment. We asked readers about the stress of homecoming and collected some great ideas for how to ease it and make sure things [...]

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Adrienne May is a military spouse. Her husband is an Army soldier and now is serving in the Army National Guard. Together they have three children from preschool to pre-teen. Adrienne is actively involved in family readiness and disaster preparedness on the state level and advocating for military family programs, homecoming transition programs and adequate veterans benefits.


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