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Women in combat is not something new. In 2016, women were formally allowed to serve in combat roles. All jobs were open to all military members. Gender was no longer a discriminating factor. This law-making headline made it so some people believed that for the first time women were going to be allowed to be […]
From Military Spouse to Active Duty and Back Again -Episode 24 Alana served in the US Air Force for 4 years. She started out her military journey as a spouse and then joined active duty years later. She served in the medical field while in the military and got out to start a family. Her […]
Today’s guest is Annette Whittenberger. Listen to her story of overcoming PTSD symptoms. Annette is a military spouse, mother to two teenagers (one is in college), and veteran who served in the Army for over seventeen years as a Chemical officer including a deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. She retired and decided to trade in her […]
by Lindsay Swoboda, Uplifting Anchor “Mommy, I don’t WANT to move. I will miss our house. What about my music class? What about my friends? What about…” The number of items my daughter is worried about for this PCS astounds me. At only 3 years old, I thought we could blaze through our upcoming move […]
When I think back to my military service, I can’t help but smile. You see, my time in the military had many challenges, but it was also a lot of fun. I had the opportunity to do amazing things and learned a lot about myself. If you are looking for a way to challenge yourself, […]
The mil to mil life has its good parts and bad parts. For my husband and I it was great that we could move around the country together and both have jobs where our benefits went with us. But then there is the whole part of ‘move together’. That wasn’t actually how it happened. He […]
Day 30 – First By the end of my deployment I slept through rocket attacks and all the other sounds that went living in a combat zone for months on end, but the first night as I tired as I was I could not sleep. I remember laying in my bunk with a blanket and […]
When I was deployed it was my job to go to the various construction projects we were in charge of throughout the province of Kapisa, Afghanistan. Our team’s goal was to go to each project once a month. For a majority of our projects, we did this, but there were a few projects that were […]
