We live in a society that makes a mania about planning and goal setting. Maybe that’s why so many people are unhappy. We would do far better if we paid more attention to the details and let the big picture take care of itself.
A new initiative to honor and say “thank you” to wounded U.S. service members began recently, and the organizers are asking for your help.
It is traditional at this time of year to make lists of the things we are thankful for. On the other hand, the world is full of things for which we are anything but grateful, and there is a therapeutic effect from getting some of them off your chest.
The Army has a pretty clear image of what it is — but we don’t do so well at understanding who we are.
How do you get through to anyone dumb enough to drive drunk?
Veterans Day is a time when most of us try to remember and honor those who fought in our nation’s wars. This year, I want to remember the veterans of a different struggle — a group that is rapidly disappearing from the Army.
Are you ready to commit to 24 hours without a cigarette? If so, then the day to make that commitment is fast approaching.
Veterans Day is a time when most of us try to remember and honor those who fought in our nation’s wars. This year, I want to remember the veterans of a different struggle — a group that is rapidly disappearing from the Army.
Experience is important.
America Recycles — you should, too.
Experience is important.
“Trick or treat.”
“Trick or treat.”
There was an interesting discussion on an Army Knowledge Online forum the other day. It was an argument over which was better, the “old” Army or the “new” Army.
My first season as a soccer mom is over.
I met a lovely woman a few months ago whose husband is deployed to Iraq with a Stryker brigade. As we talked, I shared with her some of my experiences, having lived through my husband’s two nearly back-to-back Iraq deployments. A few minutes into the conversation, she asked the million dollar question: When he came back, was it like he never left?
Domestic violence is like toxic mold — it thrives in hidden, dark corners, but dies when exposed to open air.
It’s all about common sense.
It’s easy to ignore disaster preparedness when you live in a corner of the country as calm as the Pacific Northwest.
Newspapers are like that classic saying about the tree falling in the forest — “If no one is there to hear it, does it make any noise?” the question goes.
The 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, is redeploying to Fort Lewis after 15 months of continuous combat operations in Ninevah Province, Baghdad and other places throughout Iraq.
My bedside phone rang at 1 a.m. a couple years ago.
How should we remember September 11, 2001?
Disasters are things that happen to someone else, somewhere far from here.
Matthew lived with a lot of labels.
The Army has always told its Soldiers that they had the best equipment in the world, but Soldiers have always been able to find areas for improvement.
Suicide prevention is everyone’s business and anyone can participate. Looking for a way? On Sept. 19, a large group of Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians and family members will march across Fort Lewis on the second annual Walk for Life.
Just about everyone has suggestions for how to make schools better. But they often avoid the easiest step of all — they need to get involved. You move around a lot in the Army and the children in Army families often collect schools the way other people collect stamps.
What makes a great leader?
As if the stereotypes that follow Army wives are not bad enough, last week the Journal of the American Medical Association released a study reporting that Soldiers’ children were three times as likely to be abused or neglected by their mothers during a deployment.
