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Battle Buddies Are Vital
I could not have done it alone.
The first time I ran a half marathon was a doozy. Living in Georgia at the time with two young kids, I felt a long way from my time in the Marine Corps when “fit” was my middle name. I was determined and, thankfully, so was my battle buddy.
Finding Fitness Motivation
Health and fitness are an important part of life, especially when you are in the Army or any other branch of the military.
I know for me, staying in shape in order to pass the Advanced Physical Fitness Test (or APFT, for short) is especially important to me. Although it has now changed to the Advanced Combat Fitness test (or ACFT) as of Oct. 1, 2020. However, the ACFT that is for the record will not count until 2022. For more information on the ACFT go here or here.
That means that it gives soldiers more time to train and prepare for the ACFT, and that’s great for me as I am in the Reserves. For my Reserve unit, up until recently, we did not have access to the equipment needed to train. Now that I do have access to equipment, I am lacking the motivation to train and workout. So what do you do when you have lost motivation and don’t feel like working out?
9 Ways to Support Your New Service Member
You have a few days left with your loved one before they head off to basic training (or boot camp). You’re bummed because the daily phone calls and visits you’ve become accustomed to will be on pause for a while. and then you wonder what your relationship will look like while you are apart, possibly for the first time ever.
You reach for your loved one’s hand and pull them to sit down on the couch next to you. You sigh. I really don’t want to talk about this, but I need to know what to do.
Regain Motivation
How are we already into October? Where have the last seven months gone?
This is our final year in Germany, and we were going to go out with a BANG! Big plans for traveling and exploring things we couldn’t easily do before because the triplets were less independent. However, here we are, seven months after the pandemic first started to cripple normal life as we knew it.
And to be honest, I don’t think I have recovered.
Two Different Shoes
The week before a deployment.
When I look back, I barely remember that week. By that time, we had done all the chores we needed to do to prepare.
We had our paperwork in order.
His stuff was packed.
We had our new phone plan set up…
We had done it all.
Months and months of brainstorming and planning every way possible to prepare ourselves, and we had finished.
News 6 Mashup: Oct. 12, 2020
Here are the top stories for the week of Oct. 12, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:
• Military Children Eligible for Activity Grants
• WWII Veteran Skydives with Golden Knights
• United Through Reading: Fall Challenge
• Speak For Your Community; Take Blue Star Families Survey
• You Can Vote Anywhere
• This Week in History
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