I want to know why news reports over the last decade have indicated a steady decline in the well-being and satisfaction of military service members. I don’t want the same pat answer, that military families need a better quality of life. Let’s dig deeper. Is there a real solution to continuing dissatisfaction? The recently-released results…
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Remotely Romantic
Valentine’s Day is coming, and while your civilian friends are picking out new lingerie and making dinner plans with their hubbies, you’re wallowing in self-pity because your soldier or sailor is deployed. You imagine that your friends will float through the upcoming week buoyed by the anticipation of foil hearts, velvety roses, and soft kisses,…
Super Bowl Preparedness
It’sFebruary. As always, panic has set in. Soon, folks everywhere will be mobbing the grocery stores for necessary supplies and stockpiling items in their cabinets, pantries and refrigerators. Is another Herculean Arctic superstorm headed our way? Is a typhoon spinning its way eastward across the Pacific? Is a deadly combination of high and low-pressure systems…
DoD Medical Force Cuts Hurt Military Families
“Sorry, but you can’t be seen at the military clinic for that anymore,” a health care provider told me last week when she prescribed physical therapy for my back pain. She explained that the clinic was drawing down staff, especially many of its specialists which will soon only treat active duty uniformed personnel. One reason…
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