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5 Things Your Mama Didn’t Tell You About Your New Duty Station
“Honey, I got my orders. We’re going to…..” Aren’t those every military spouses favorite words? It sends visions of pack outs, broken furniture, paperwork nightmares, and new jobs flying right through...
View Article3 Mighty Ways Living on Base Can Change Your Life
0800 colors. Sunset taps. Being carded just to get to your house. Your neighbors are aircraft carriers and F18 Hornets. Everyone seems to wear the same thing and walk in step. You stand to say the...
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5 Amazing Reasons You CAN Survive Your Next PCS Alone
1. Transferring to a new duty station can be rough. Between the financial cost, the PCS process and finding somewhere to live, there’s no shortage of hurdles to overcome but if you ask me, the biggest,...
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I Apologize. It’s OK to Hate Your Duty Station.
Of all the things about military life that could break a person… I am realizing that the thing I never thought would get into my head and heart and start to wear on my soul is doing just that. I am...
View ArticleThere is No Such Thing as “Free” Housing
There’s no such thing as a free lunch and there certainly isn’t a free roof over our heads. It is a widespread misconception that BAH means “free housing” and is a perk that comes with joining the...
View ArticleLiving on the Edge of My Community
Last Sunday, I strapped on my trusty pair of Keens and exchanged indoor boredom for outdoor beauty by climbing a small mountain peak (very small, let’s be honest) behind my home that edges my growing...
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5 Tips For Surviving the Duty Station You Hate
As your time is nearing an end at your current duty station and your rotation date is approaching, you are probably getting extremely anxious waiting to hear where your next assignment might be. You...
View Article5 Must-Do’s During the Last Days at Your Duty Station
Countdowns. At times, it seems like our entire lives revolve around countdowns. Counting the days until a deployment. Counting the days left during a deployment. Counting how many days your spouse will...
View Article12 Tips to Combat Boredom at Your Duty Station
Sometimes it can feel like you are stationed in the middle of nowhere, because…well…you are stationed in the middle of nowhere. Shops, restaurants and recreational amenities are scant, internet service...
View Article5 Stages of Grief when PCSing…and How to Overcome Them
Sometimes, a duty station works its way into your heart until it feels like home and you never want to leave. It’s hard to PCS away from a duty station you truly love. When we lived overseas in Spain,...
View ArticleDun-dun-dun: We Got Assigned to the Pentagon
My spouse came home one day and told me that we had another assignment to the D.C. area. The National Capitol Region is one of my favorite places. So needless to say, I was ecstatic. This would be the...
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6 Things to Remember to Survive the New Duty Station Blues
Transferring to a new duty station can be a lot of things, it can be an exciting adventure and a chance to explore new things, but if we’re being honest here, it can also be really hard. I don’t know...
View Article5 Things (Modern) Military Spouses Will NEVER Agree On
There are a few things military spouses will never agree on. Some spouses are firmly in one camp while others feel exactly the opposite in these areas of military family life. Truth is, these are the...
View ArticleWhy You Should (or Should Not) Join Your FRG
From Navy Life 101 I had no idea what an FRG [Family Readiness Group] was until I watched Army Wives. Then, while we were stationed in Pensacola I found out our command had one and I jumped at the...
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11 Things You Must Know About Living In Washington DC as a Military Family
So you’re about to be living in Washington DC as a military family. You’ve done your research. Stalked Zillow.com and GreatSchools.org. And now the movers have deposited your HHGs into the hub of...
View Article7 Milspouse Neighbors You Probably Don’t Want to Live Next To
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5 Things Your Mama Didn’t Tell You About Your New Duty Station
“Honey, I got my orders. We’re going to…..” Aren’t those our favorite words? Need an extra cup of coffee to get through that news… It sends visions of pack outs, broken furniture, paperwork nightmares...
View Article8 Ways to Turn Your White Walls Into Less Of An Eyesore
You know the drill: PCS season rolls around, the trucks roll in, and you roll out. Several hot, sticky days spent holed up in the car go by – car games exhausted, stomachs lurching from too much...
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The Loneliness of Being Left Behind by Your Friends at Your Duty Station
By: Anonymous Last spring, my husband, son, and I sat happily in a meadow of bluebonnets overlooking Stillhouse Lake, smiling for the camera, trying our best to capture some candid family moments...
View ArticleIf You Hate Your Duty Station, You Are Not Alone…
By Laura Schofield We were exploring a new-to-us museum at a new-to-us duty station when I first found the letters. My kids were pressing every button they could find and using the microscopes to...
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