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Military Love: Maximize Your Military Love Life
In honor of St. Valentine’s Day, today’s post is all about love. Particularly, ways to maximize your love life while living the military lifestyle. Because loving in the military life sometimes looks different than loving in the outside world. It’s beautiful in it’s own kind of way. Military love is so often criticized or pitied because of the…
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Nursing Essentials: The Only 5 Things You’ll Ever Need
When you tell people you’re planning to breastfeed your baby, you might be met with a positive response. (You should, because it’s a beautiful bonding activity that benefits both you and baby with countless health benefits!) Or, like many aspects of motherhood, you may be met with a laundry list of “supplies” you’ll need to handle the…
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What to Expect at Army Basic Training Graduation Day
This is one of the most defining moments in your soldier’s career. Even years down the road, when the freshness of his blues uniform has faded and the creases are gone, the effects of the day won’t have changed a bit. Becoming a US soldier is an enormous accomplishment, mentally and physically. This is the day where your soldier…
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Army Basic Training: Phone Call Rules
I remember as a kid riding past one of the Basic training areas on Ft. Knox (back when there was a bootcamp there) and seeing lines of soldiers standing at a series of pay phones. It was a moving image of just how much the soldiers wanted to check in with home. They would stand and stand and stand…
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An Open Letter to the Girl that Just Said Goodbye to her Future Soldier
saying goodbye to your future soldier – an act of love It was the hardest hug we ever had. I know we hugged, I’m sure we kissed, but the entire goodbye was so shaking that it was an instantaneous blur. The moment his arms slid off me, my heart crumbled into a million pieces. I got back in the car…
