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Expecting a Child? Here’s How TRICARE Covers Maternity Services
Expecting a Child? Here’s How TRICARE Covers Maternity Services. TRICARE is here to help you get the care you need during pregnancy. As you get ready to welcome your child, here’s some information about how TRICARE covers maternity services.
RTWR: Random Thoughts While Running
General Dennis J. Reimer participated in the 35th Army Ten-Miler on Oct. 13, 2019 for his 16th time. The net running time was 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 7 seconds. General Reimer takes the time to look back over his shoulder to the time when he was the Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 1, 1995 to June 21, 1999.
It is evident that the competitive nature remains.
On Oct. 11, 1998 at the 14th Army Ten-Miler, he was the 1,207 out of 7,933 males in a time of 1:10:45.
When Military Life Feels Scary
Few Americans have missed the news from the Middle East in recent weeks.
It’s difficult to scroll through social media without seeing calls for war, specific response, restraint.
But in the military community, it isn’t the politics that matter as much to as what will happen with our service member spouses.
As we watch the news our stomachs drop through the floor.
Our chests tighten to the point we can only inhale shallow breaths.
Our hands shake a little.
Our hearts beat a tiny bit faster.
Images of yellow ribbons, hugs and kisses goodbye, waving flags, and overstuffed olive drab bags littering the entrance to our home, and uniforms in a combination of browns and greens packed tightly run through our minds.
It’s hard to stop that flow through the channels of our brain, the rolling images of what we’ve done before.
The ‘Doggone’ Truth About Community
After saying goodbye to my husband four months ago, one of the soldiers of rear detachment stopped me in the parking lot and told me that if there was anything I needed help with during the deployment to please call him. This is not uncommon in the military world, and his words were comforting on such a raw, emotional day.
I told him there were two things I didn’t want to have to do during this deployment: buy a car and put my dog down.
Sadly, I had to do both this month and no other words will suffice…
It just sucked.
Doing The Best You Can Do
We’ve all heard the saying “just do the best you can do.”
Possibly this was muttered by your senile, passive-aggressive Great Aunt this holiday season while standing around the cheeseball; hopefully, it was said with sincerity from a loved one.
Military wives know this phrase possibly better than anyone else. And if you don’t, then I hope this post will empower you to see the truth in this phrase.
I, like many other victims, am a recovered people pleaser. At one point in my life, I was so concerned with letting people down or saying “no” that I would break down in tears if I had to break a commitment. It wasn’t until I had two kiddos a mere 19 months apart that I realized I needed a change.
Investing in Military Families
Happy 2020, AWN readers! I hope the Holiday Season found you in good spirits. I also hope that the season showered you with many blessings and that you were able to spend time with the ones that support and value the most wonderful you.
I’m super pumped about 2020, the newness that is in the briskness of the air. The plans that I have in store for myself and for my family are coasting me into this New Year with hope for an even brighter future.
I’m going to be a student again. Say what?! Growing up (during adolescence), I detested school. I didn’t enjoy studying, and I didn’t like feeling inadequate because school was hard for me. To this day, if something doesn’t come fairly easy, I kind of check out.
I’m not Glib; I’m a Connector
Sometimes military spouses can get a bad reputation. People use words like dependent, clucking hens, glib, and other derogatory names. What if we started using words like connector, networker, or change seeker?
Every day, I make the conscious decision to be a connector. To me a connector is someone who builds a large network, not for popularity, but for the sake of helping others. A connector is someone who reaches out to others, engages in conversation, and genuinely cares about building new relationships while nurturing old relationships.
To a milspouse, the military community might seem large, but it is actually pretty small. Only about 1% of the population serve in the military. Being a connector allows you to help others when they are in need.
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