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Military Families Gear up for Goodbyes

23 hours ago ago from yoga spa lifestyle magazine

By Amanda Salem According to the Huffington Post, President Barack Obama may be softening the blow of his plan for a 30,000-troop surge to Afghanistan by setting an exit strategy for July 2011. However, if you ask one of the many Marines gathered at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina Monday exit strategy or not it’s the support of family that gets them through their deployment overseas. President Obama announced the surge last week, ...

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19 hours ago ago from the house that osh built

I think there is a fable or proverb out there about not straying too far from what you know or do best..or stick to what you know and do best...or something like that. Like in our family, Ward is not the funny one. He knows this, and is okay with it. Evan and I are funny...in fact we are so funny that Ward, many times, forgets to laugh. Last week Ward fell asleep on the couch and was late to pick Evan up from school. Evan was sofa king ...

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at the State Department, Part One: The Good

13 hours ago ago from BLACKFIVE

For a while, the military has been hoping to see the civilian agencies reform themselves to help support expeditionary missions and the broader War on Terror (or whatever we're calling it now).  Lieutenant General Chiarelli and Secretary Gates have been prominent advocates of civilian reform, but a poll of US military officers indicates very broad support for such reforms as well.  No wonder!  The strains of these important missions have been ...

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Blue Star Families with Connie Milstein Supports Military Families

9 hours ago ago from Connie Milstein

Originally created by military families last December, the mandate and mission of Blue Star Families is to support, empower and help to connect military families so that the challenges of military life can be eased and overcome. No matter the rank, branch of service of actual location, Blue Star Families, now with Connie Milstein on the Board of Directors, provides on-line and physical communities for military families. BSF acts as a ...

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Home Mental Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD teo / December 9, 2009 / Comments Off U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Greg Rivers, 20, of Sylvester, Ga., waits to take psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. on Sept. 29, 2009. TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a ...

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