Each day 22 veterans lose their lives to suicide. That’s one veteran every 65 minutes. Paulette Fryar and the other branch winners from the Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year created the Million Mile Project to bring awareness to suicide prevention.
We know the holidays can be difficult on military families. Amber has some tips to help you get through them with the fall edition of You Might be a Milspouse.
In this week’s MEM Cori gives us her tips for finding your Milspouse Community. With Cori’s tips, creating your community after a move will be so much easier.
When your spouse is deployed even small tasks can feel daunting. Project Evergreen comes in and takes care of your yard (and/or snow removal) for free.
In Fly Safe, the reader gets a very realistic glimpse of what it’s like for spouses and families back home during a war when there was no internet or texting.
There’s a distinct gap between the local church and the military community. When Megan discovered this she chose to fill that gap, she was answering a call…
For this week’s MEM Joelen shares ways that you can help Afghan refugees. It’s difficult watching the news and feeling helpless, here are ways to get involved.
I carry a bag of titles around with me. Why? So that I’m prepared to be what I need to be in that moment.
I know I’m not alone. Pretty much everyone in the world carries around something similar. Yours might include the words parent, teacher, artist, director, chef, or triathlete. It’s not just about what we do but also who we are. I am _____________. Insert your titles. Are you kind? Aggressive? Loving? Generous? Bold? Impatient?
Like many military spouses, a recent trip to the mailbox revealed a letter from the Office of People Analytics (OPA) within the Department of Defense. The letter was a fascinating look into the hundreds of thousands of lives that make up the milspouse tribe.
It was also a bit comical that the letter came with the subheading, “2019 DoD Survey of Active Duty Spouses.”
2019? Most of us are used to the military style of hurry-up-and-wait, but did the Department of Defense really just share findings with me two years after the fact?
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