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Product Description
Everything we need to know to get by a initial years as an Army associate or poignant other.
No one hands we a manual when we enter Army life; we possibly have to learn a tough proceed or event on resources on your own...until now. Intro to Army Life gives we a collection and resources required to make your transition into a Army lifestyle easier, reduction stressful and some-more fun. You don't have to learn a tough proceed all a information we need is here, prepared to assistance we make a transition.
Along with enchanting personal account and stories, this book includes:
-Army hierarchy and amicable structure
-15 tips for traffic with a deployment
-Perks of a troops ID
-Top 25 Army acronyms
-Military discounts and how to find them
-Top 10 resources for troops children
Fun facts, such as where a tenure "military brat" originated
...and much, most more!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #82881 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-02-17
- Released on: 2012-02-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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we certain wish Intro to Army Life had been around a year ago when we entered a Army lifestyle! --Sheila Schumacher, Army One Source
Choosing a career in a troops is not only a job, it s a lifestyle; one that your whole family becomes a partial of. It is a lifestyle full of hurdles and advantages that a normal municipal has never listened of or experienced, and would never have anticipated. Allison Mewes Intro To Army Life is a ideal manual to a rules, programs, resources, lingo, amicable mores, protocols, and even some of a politics of vital a troops lifestyle. A extensive though discerning read, a book has tips and information that even we was unknowingly of, and we grew adult in a troops family. Written in a really easy to follow, common-sense proceed that any municipal can understand, we design that Intro To Army Life will turn a customary emanate manual for spouses and poignant others entering troops life for a initial time. --Scott Truitt, Founder - The Gratitude Campaign
About a Author
Allison Mewes is a unapproachable mother of an Army soldier. Her practice as a newlywed entering a Army lifestyle, along with a humorous things that happened along a way, desirous her to assistance other troops spouses and poignant others make a transition into Army life. She owns Blue Bamboo Project Services and lives with her father in Boise, Idaho.
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Excellent Resource
By Pages we Turn
I am an Army Wife of 32 years, a contingent daughter of an Army Warrant Officer for my whole life. So between a dual we have had 50 years of believe with a troops lifestyle. My father and father are now retired; so we was concerned to examination this book so that we could see what Mrs. Mewes had to say. we cruise myself a seasoned Army wife, and looked during a book with a vicious eye.
What we found was a smashing apparatus for any association commander's mother to pass out to newly married solders or families that are new to a troops lifestyle. When my father was a association commander 20 years ago in Hawaii, we had so many new wives that were on a island, we wish we had afterwards this apparatus to assistance explain what these women should expect,
Intro to Army Life is created gender neutral, for a "be all we can be Army", that is flattering awesome. However, my father was an Army Ranger Infantry Officer and there were not any women that worked with him. That is since we impute to my enterprise for resources for a wives, since we never had to understanding with masculine spouses.
This book was full of information that was simply permitted from other places, arrange charts, uniform pictures, sequence of command, and branches of a use among other things; however, this book is smashing since it has all gathered into one place. Mrs. Mewes also gave a list of a tip 25 acronyms, we tested myself before we looked during a answers, and even after 12 years late we still remember what these mean. Overall, this is a book filled with information for troops families to use as a resource. we overtly trust that each association commander's mother should have a smoke-stack of Intro to Army Life prepared to pass out. we would even try to contend that each ROTC opposite a US should have Intro to Army Life accessible for a girlfriends/wives to possibly squeeze or palm to them to learn.
I determine that being a troops associate or poignant other is not for a gloomy of heart, there is a outrageous shortcoming today, with infantryman being placed in harm's way, a spouses are approaching to take on a larger responsibility.
This book/resource will assistance one navigate a believe and raise a believe usually since believe is power. we enjoyed reading this book, there is amusement throughout. we ostensible usually tiny phrases that we had remembered from a troops days, like "suck it up", "if a army wanted we to have a mother they would emanate we one "and of march my favorite since my infantryman pronounced it some-more than we ever suspicion humanly possible--Hooah!
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
A Must Read for ANY ONE Connected to a Soldier
By Cat
When my father assimilated a Army, we got all his books and difficult them. we looked adult things we didn't know on a internet and started reading other troops mother blogs and support sites to learn as most as we could. we wish this book, Intro to Army Life, was out afterwards since it covers all a basis of what each associate needs to learn and learn it quick... and it's all tucked easily in one tiny book.
I unequivocally favourite it how a author keeps things elementary and simple. She leaves out a lot of a difficult things that usually isn't critical your initial integrate years in a military. Not vital on bottom and assembly a lot of troops wives in person, we theory we take it for postulated that not all spouses are as into it as we am. While we was meditative of this post, we attended an ROTC event. Some of a cadets where articulate about their enlisted lives before fasten a ROTC. One of a cadets said, "I used to be an E-5" (which is a Sergeant). we didn't notice who it was, though one of a wives said, "What's an E-5?" After we got finished chuckling to myself, we suspicion of Allison Mewes' book and suspicion maybe we should get a garland and pass them out!
Intro to Army Life: A text for spouses and poignant others entering a Army lifestyle, covers all from ranks, TRICARE, troops ID cards, deployment blues, PTSD, uniforms, LES (pay-stub) format, to USO services and a pros and cons of vital on and off base. Plus MUCH, MUCH more!
I generally desired a LES section, those bloody pay-stubs are like perplexing to decode a unfamiliar denunciation with no key. This book includes a tiny easy to examination blueprint to assistance those of us with no idea how to interpret a code!
My father even picked adult a book and examination a few chapters here and there and commented how she unequivocally strike a spike on a conduct with a lot of her tips and advice.
I rarely suggest this book for all spouses and poignant others that need and intro into a Army lifestyle, though honestly, we consider my extended family would advantage from reading it as well! Army life is opposite universe than a municipal one we are vital in, and it is best to be prepared for anything and everything. Our soldiers NEED us to be prepared in a lifestyle, so they not usually don't have to worry about us when they are gone, though that they feel we can in some tiny approach know them. we am not a soldier, we never fake that we am, though we am an Army mother and we will do all we can to be a partial of that life that my father and we chose together. we crave to know him and be there for him. As Allison Mewes so eloquently puts it, we troops wives need to "stay strong, be positive, keep a faith, ask for help, support your infantryman and support one another. We're all in this together. Never give up! HOOAH!"
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