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Will you be watching Army Wives?

Last year Lifetime premiered a show called "Army Wives". I was skeptical. All I could think was, Oh boy, here we go, a show that paints military wives as overly dramatic cry babies!

Email, IM, Webcam: Good or Bad?

In previous wars the mail has been slow and inefficient. Today we have email, phone, IM, even webcam! As much as we love to see and talk to our loved ones while they are deployed, I've often wondered if all these advances in communication actually make it HARDER in the long run.

DoD Reports Pay Gap Closed, do you think so?

Article found here: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,163897,00.html "A new Department of Defense study of military compensation finds no pay gap exists today between service members and civilian peers. But the study, conducted over the last two years, advises Defense leaders to adopt a new tool for comparing military and private sector compensation so that service members learn to appreciate the full value of their more favorable package of pay, benefits, allowances and tax breaks. The study of the 10th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC) also calls for changes to key elements of cash compensation: Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) paid to members without dependents living off base in stateside areas should be raised, as budgets permit, so that over time their BAH covers the full cost of rent and utilities for housing comparable to units rented by civilian peers.

Will you go see Stop Loss?

Stop Loss is a new movie starring Ryan Phillippe. According to IMDB, the plot is this - "Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty.

Is your servicemember currently deployed?

Are you filling your nights with TV or are you soaking up every minute hoping you don't have to go through that again? Yes No Not yet, but too soon!