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Here are the top stories for the week of Aug. 3, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:
• Navy’s First Black Female Tactical Aircraft Pilot
* U.S. to Withdraw 12,000 Troops from Germany
* Most Underused Veterans Benefits by State
* Army National Guard: Reorganizing into Eight Divisions
• This Week in History
Dear Mrs. Employment Gap:
Please accept this memo as notice of my resignation. I am no longer able to fulfill my duties as an uprooted professional.
During my time of service, I have gained much needed rest, downtime, and awareness. I’ve had the opportunity to further my skills of both patience and indifference. Thank you for your overall reprieve, which has led me to my greatest level of unaccountability in recent months.
While I appreciate this learning experience, I am happy to inform you that I must be moving on. At present, I have the wonderful opportunity of rejoining the workforce and am eager to accept my new daily habits, purpose, and routine.
Are you experiencing thoughts of anxiety, guilt, worry, doubt, uncertainty, or all of the above concerning the upcoming school year? Are you singing the new school year blues? Join the crowd because wading through the information, news, and daily COVID-19 numbers are enough to drive anyone to madness especially when it concerns sending our children back to school in this ever-uncertain environment we’ve been stuck in for the past several months.
Here are the top stories for the week of Aug. 3, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:
• First Woman Tasked as Commander of Army Reserve
* Potential Top New Cybersecurity Position at White House
* Push for Regular, Reliable Data in Military Spouse Unemployment Tracking
* This Week in History
My son Kieran, a medic in the Army, took his life on August 28, 2010, only months before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan. It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since his death. Or that this milestone anniversary is taking place during what can only be described as a year unlike any other.
Suicide is often called “the last taboo” and with good reason since it’s one of the few subjects that remain largely off-limits in our society. People know that suicide is a problem and that we need to be talking about it. And yet the very idea of someone taking his or her life leaves many of us feeling deeply uncomfortable. We don’t know what to say, much less what to do.
Last year, I attended a conference in Austin, Texas, that centered on military spouse employment. I discovered that unlike the national unemployment rates of 3-4%, military spouse unemployment was at around 24% (pre-Covid-19 statistics).
Fortunately, the room was filled with bright minds and outside-the-box thinkers that were working hard to find solutions to this problem. I was intrigued by the percentages they shared and concerned about the room filled with women and men that had advanced degrees but could not find a comparable job.
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