35 Burst results for "Army"
AP News Radio
Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen kills Israeli civilian in West Bank shooting
"The Israeli armies has Palestinian gunmen have shot and killed an Israeli civilian near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, paramedics, say a man in his 30s was in a serious condition with a gunshot wound, while troops pursued the suspected gunmen. He was later taken to a local hospital which later pronounced him dead. The incident is the latest in more than a year long surge of violence that has racked the West Bank under Israel's most right-wing government in history during that time Israel has expanded near nightly military raids throughout the area in response to an increase in Palestinian attacks. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
China launches new crew for space station, with eye to putting astronauts on moon before 2030
"China has launched its first civilian astronaut to its space station as part of a new three person crew, the shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from a launch center on the edge of the Gobi desert in northwestern China just after 9 30 a.m. local time. The crew will overlap briefly with three now aboard the tiangong station who will then return to earth after completing their 6 month mission. China built its own space station after it was excluded from the International Space Station with the hope of putting astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade. Their exclusion was largely down to U.S. concerns over the Chinese space programs intimate ties with the People's Liberation Army, the military branch of the ruling Communist Party. I'm Lawrence Brooks
Mark Levin
How to Describe Our National Security Position: 'Prudence'
"Best defines what our national security and our defense and military posture should be What one word He read liberty and tyranny chapter ten you know What is it Prudence It's not an ideological thing When it comes to the security of the United States prudence and so chapter ten is entitled self preservation Not defense not national security and liberty tyranny it's entitled self preservation That's the goal The conservative believes that the moral imperative of all public policy must be the preservation and improvement of American society So I love it when I'm lectured about this As I wrote about it it's almost 20 years whenever it was Similarly the object of American foreign policy must be no different The founders recognized that America had to be strong politically economic culturally and yes militarily To survive and thrive in a complex ever changing global environment Not only in their time but for all time History bears this out After the revolution Revolutionary War the founders realized that the confederation was inadequate to conduct foreign affairs Since each state was free to act on its own There could be no coherent national security policy because there was no staining army in each state ultimately was responsible for its own defense The nations economy was vulnerable to pirates who were terrorizing transatlantic shipping routes and by the way taking the men who worked on those ships into slavery And bring him into the central part of Africa And of course the British and Spanish empires were looming threats
AP News Radio
2 more Oath Keepers sentenced to prison terms for Jan. 6 Capitol attack
"Two more members of the oath keepers were sentenced for their roles in the capitol riot. Army veteran Jessica Watkins was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Another army veteran, Kenneth harrelson, received a four year sentence. They were acquitted of the most serious charge seditious conspiracy, harrelson was the group's ground team lead on the day of the riot. Watkins formed a separate Ohio based militia group, recruiting people to join. Watkins cheerfully apologized and described herself as just another idiot running around the capitol on January 6th, harrelson broke down in tears as well, saying he has totally demolished his life a day earlier, the leader of the proud boy, Stuart Rhodes, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. The longest sentence yet in a capitol riot case. Ed Donahue Washington
AP News Radio
Oath Keeper who stormed Capitol gets more than 8 years in prison in latest Jan. 6 sentencing
"Another oath keeper who stormed the capitol has been sentenced. Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, received an 8 and a half year sentence on a conviction of obstruction and conspiracy to impede Congress, the transgender army veteran was one of the oath keepers who stormed the U.S. capitol in a military style stacked formation on January 6th, communicating with other helmet clad members over a channel called stop the steel J 6 on the walkie talkie app zello. Watkins tearfully apologized for her actions and condemned the violence by rioters, calling herself just another idiot running around the capitol, the sentence comes a day after oath keepers founder Stewart Rhodes received an 18 year sentence in Florida chapter leader Kelly mag was sentenced to 12 years for seditious conspiracy. U.S. district judge Amit Mehta said that while Watkins was not a top leader, she was more than just a foot soldier, telling her that your role that day was more aggressive, and at least three others charged in the riot wouldn't have been there if she hadn't recruited them. Just over 500 January 6th defendants have been sentenced with more than half receiving prison time. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren't 'magic weapons'
"The Pentagon says European allies are developing a program to train Ukrainian forces on flying F-16 fighters, but it's also issuing a warning about expecting too much from the jets. There's no magic weapons in war. Joint chiefs chairman Mark milley says for one thing, F-16s are expensive. The jets themselves. And the pilots to go with them and the system costs and the missiles and the maintenance do the math. $2 billion for ten aircraft. The Russians have a thousand fourth and 5th generation fighters. And Ukraine will need a substantial amount if it wants to contest Moscow in the air. The smartest thing to have done is exactly what we did do. Which was spend money first on getting Ukraine air defenses and ground capabilities that have allowed them to hang in the fight. Millie says had the F-16s come first. You wouldn't have tanks you wouldn't have Bradley's. You wouldn't have anti army weapons. You wouldn't have anything else. You'd spend all your money on just that. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
"The head of the Russian private military contractor, Wagner has claimed that his forces have started pulling out of bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, the announcement by yevgeny prigozhin, the owner of the private military company, comes days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city, the millionaire owner, with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1st. We are handing over military positions, ammunition, everything including dry Russian to the Russian military. Nevertheless, a day earlier Ukrainian general staff said that heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a 9 month battle that killed tens of thousands of people, I am Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Double amputee Everest climber pledges to work for benefit of people with disabilities
"The first double above the knee amputee to climb Mount Everest has returned from the mountain. Hari Buddha magar lost both his legs in Afghanistan while serving in the British Army. Welcome to come to 6536 speakers. That's 21,000 feet. He'd reach the top last week 29,000 feet. Margaret says he thought several times about quitting because of his family. What does it feel like standing on top of the world? It is amazing. But it was a snowstorm. So could I stay longer? And. Around. After returning to cheering crowds in Kathmandu, magar says his main aim for the rest of his life is working to bring awareness about his disability instead of the weaknesses we should be focusing on our strength. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Zelenskyy denies Ukrainian city of Bakhmut occupied by Russian forces
"Ukraine's president has denied that Russian forces are occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of bakhmut. The claim by Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky has cast doubt on Moscow's insistence that the Ukrainian city had fallen. On Russian state TV, the anchor announced that president Vladimir Putin had congratulated the Wagner private army in helping to liberate at your mosque, which is Soviet, however, Ukrainian military officials also said their soldiers were still engaging Russian forces in fierce battles in and around bahn, the 8 month battle for bakhmut has been the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine. I am Karen Thomas
The Breakdown
Bitcoin's New Governance Challenge
"All right, Friends, well, as it is Bitcoin conference week, I thought why not do an LRS all focused on Bitcoin. So today we have two essays both sort of grounded in the recent feast bikes and both really focused on what happens next and more specifically what sort of additional emphasis on layer twos we might need as a Bitcoin community. The first piece was written by coin desk Michael Casey and is called frogs, fevers and fees, Bitcoin's new governance challenge. Michael Wright's this is why we can't have nice things. Just when we thought we'd learned our lessons from the blow ups of FTX, three arrows capital, Celsius at all, meme coin fever strikes again. Crazy crypto casinos are back. People are making ridiculous gobs of money from tokens based on a frog image, while others stand to lose massively as a rational bidding takes hold. At this time, the fever is not only infecting greedy human minds, but messing with the functioning of the most valuable blockchain in the world. The ability to create tokens based on the new BRC 20 standard, which was enabled by Bitcoin's taproot upgrade, has fostered a variety of new Bitcoin based meme coins, many mimicking those released on other chains that have recently experienced wild price movements. This past week, for example, the Ethereum based Pepe coin rose almost 5 million %, then lost 50% off its highs. This follows the creation of the ordinals protocol, which gave rise to Bitcoin based data inscriptions that function as non fungible tokens. These use up a lot more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction, which means they're driving up Bitcoin fees. Bitcoin miners have lately been earning more from transaction fees than from their routine 6.25 Bitcoin block reward, and that means if you want to send a small amount of Bitcoin on chain, it won't be accepted or you'll have to pay a prohibitively exorbitant price for doing so. I can hear Elizabeth Warren's anti crypto army snickering. These crypto Bros are so obsessed with mooning into lambos, that they're destroying what they claim to be this technology's core purpose as a better form of money and value exchange.
AP News Radio
Russian private army head claims control of Bakhmut but Ukraine says fights continue
"The head of Russia's Wagner group claims his forces have taken control of the city of bakhmut. It comes after the longest and most grinding battle of the Russia Ukraine war, in a video posted on telegram, the private army's head yevgeny prigozhin says the city is now under complete Russian control. He spoke flanked by about half a dozen fighters with ruined buildings in the background and explosions heard in the distance. But Ukrainian defense officials deny the claims and say Ukraine still controls some facilities in the area while
AP News Radio
Russia orders arrest of prominent producer, director who criticized Ukraine war
"A Moscow court has ordered the arrests of prominent filmmaker Alexander Rodney and theater director Ivan fyre, for spreading false information about the Russian army. The initial court hearings against Rodney and thyroid were held on April 27th, but not reported by the court until this week, according to the court's press service, the two men who are outside Russia will be placed in custody once Russian authorities managed to detain them or get them extradited. Keith born Rodney left Russia after the start of the country's full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has repeatedly spoken openly against the war in October 2022, Russia's justice ministry declared rough landscape of foreign agent. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
China says ready to 'smash' Taiwan self-rule as US prepares major arms package, sends advisers
"China sent a stern warning on Taiwan as the U.S. prepares a major arms package. A recent increase in exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries is an extremely wrong and dangerous move. China's defense ministry spokesperson tan cafe says in a statement and video posted online in a reference to Taiwan's closest ally, the U.S., ten continues, the People's Liberation Army continues to strengthen the military training and preparations and will resolutely smash any form of Taiwanese independence secession along with attempts at outside interference. The U.S. is reportedly preparing to accelerate the sale of defensive weapons and other military assistance to the self governing island democracy. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Eric Metaxas Show
Tim Mahoney Describes His Journey to Biblical Archeology
"I'm talking to Tim Mahoney who is behind the films called patterns of evidence, the new one. It's going to be in theaters may 15th and 17th only. Fathom event is patterns of evidence journey to Mount Sinai part two, okay, so I just have to ask because I'm sure you told me this in the past, but for my audience's sake, how did you get involved in biblical archeology and in these kinds of things? Because I have become more and more and more fascinated with this stuff. What was your journey to Mahoney? Well, I think that if you wonder about your past and you wonder about how we got somewhere, when I was in high school, my family actually broke up when I was 11 years old. And it was a tragic kind of a breakup. We actually had to go in hiding Eric from my father because he was, he wasn't well. And he and an 11th grade was the first time I started to get back an interested in school. And it was when I was reading a history book. And I started to read ahead. And it was like that scene from when John Candy when they're like, I'm sure that scene when Steve Martin and John Candy in a movie where they're like in bed. And they're all of a sudden they wake up and they start talking about baseball or whatever. And I was like, thinking to myself, what in the world am I doing reading ahead in this book? I do not, I'm not supposed to be a good student. I don't like this, but I found history was fascinating because I was learning a story. It was a Civil War. And I was going deeper and deeper into it. I couldn't believe what had happened. I finally became aware that something happened earlier in time. And I think that this history, when you ever have a chance to look and you go, well, how did this happen? Where did this happen? And in my own life, I thought I was just going to go on adventure, but once you go into a place like Egypt and you see the pyramids and you see archeology and you realize that there was nations here before, there were armies here before, there were pharaohs and you look at the tombs and you look at go to the British Museum and you see what was created. Human hair from 3000 years ago, we wove together. I saw this wig that was both African and like a Norwegian hair that was woven together. I go, who was this person? Who are these people that all this happened? And you just realized that there's something more. And I think that that interest of knowing what the past was about, what drew me in, and so when I went to Egypt, the first time in 2002, I was absolutely astounded by the precision of things that were created. And how in the world did that happen? And then as you bring your faith into it, you realize that God is the creator of everything
AP News Radio
Army sergeant who fatally shot BLM protester in Texas sentenced to 25 years as governor seeks pardon
"An Uber driver who shot another armed white man in a Texas protest has received a lengthy sentence in a case that drew the attention of the Texas governor. This court census you to a term of 25 years in the Texas department of criminal justice. In Austin, Texas district judge Clifford Brown handed down the sentence Wednesday to Daniel Perry. Perry is white U.S. Army sergeant, serving at fort hood. He was working as a ride share driver when he shot and killed Garrett foster a white U.S. Air Force veteran who was legally carrying an AK-47 at a crowded George Floyd protest in July of 2020, Texas governor Greg Abbott said Perry was railroaded, and has requested a pardon recommendation, while prosecutors say Perry's social media history and text messages suggest he's a racist who might commit violence again. The victim's mother, Sheila foster, spoke in court. I pray to God. That one day he will get rid of all this hate that's in your heart. I'm Jennifer King.
AP News Radio
Prosecutors want 25-year sentence in Texas protest killing
"A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of fatally shooting a man during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Texas is scheduled to be sentenced today. Prosecutors are asking for a minimum of 25 years in prison for 36 year old Daniel Perry, who was working as a ride share driver in downtown Austin when he shot and killed 28 year old Garrett foster, foster was legally carrying an AK-47 rifle as he took part in a demonstration following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prosecutor saint Perry's history of racist texts and social media posts expose a threat of violence likely to resurface Perry claims foster pointed his gun at him so he fired, and his lawyers are asking for a maximum of ten years behind bars, Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott has said he will sign a pardon once a recommendation from the Texas board of pardons and paroles hits his desk. I'm John a water
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Bridget Ziegler: How You Can Support the Leadership Institute
"Bridget, if we can train an army of 10,000 moms dads and grandparents to run for school board races and win, it is absolutely going to make a huge difference. What does it take? Can you get into the nuts and volts for people who are considering helping leadership institute? I mean, isn't it a $150 essentially to train one parent? Yeah, that on average is about a $150 per individual that we can train and arm them up. And again, this is not just if you're a candidate. This is everything from a concerned citizen. Your awareness and knowledge will we help you understand how to be effective and activism, helping talking to your elected officials to get things in effect change. Same with candidates. A lot of times I find when I teach these classes, a lot of people say, you know what? I can do this and they step up and that's what we need. We need more people stepping up and then we help them with the tools on how to be effective to affect it to win. The lowdown ballot races have a unique aspect to them. And so we teach them all of those components to maximize every day and every dollar. And then like I said, we wrap it around with Wednesday, newly elected. We support them when they're in there to be effective as well. So it's about a $150 to train one person across the country. And we have had thousands already, but like I said, we're looking to train 10,000 people across this country over the next two years because I believe that that will put us in a good position to start moving and shifting where people can celebrate the wins and other people in other areas will start to step up as well.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
What Random New Yorkers and Immigrants on Borders!
"Hi, everybody. It's who makes truly significant videos. What was the Arabic again every month? About that. Yeah, that's remarkable. So how many are up actually? How many of you done? I don't know. I would say probably close to a hundred, I guess. Everyone is important. The latest is up at PragerU, and at his own website. And it is remarkable what he does is, and it's very, it's very inventive as well as insightful. He went to random people in the street in Manhattan, correct? Yeah, but I self select. So different neighborhoods have different political makeup. So for example, my neighborhood in the upper west side is more center left. So I'm self selecting the left, not the center left or liberal. So I'm going to a neighborhood. Which I know is populated by leftists. Okay, that's fair. And virtually everyone, there was, I don't remember an old person being asked. It was either middle aged young. It's a pretty relatively young neighborhood. Right, okay. And he asked them, do you, what was the exact question? Our borders racist. Oh yeah, our borders racist. Everyone said yes. The underlying issue that essentially that means we shouldn't have borders. Well, obviously, because we shouldn't have racist. Correct. So I thought I need to connect the dots here. But you understand, no, no, I know you know I understand. I am sure my listeners understand. If you think borders are racist, you're against Portland. Okay. And then the punchline is always a punchline in an army video. He went to Mexico, now how far from the border folks trying to get into the United States? Correct. From where the old Mexican or they all Central America. No, they're a mixture of mixture El Salvador Honduras. Guatemala and so on. Okay. And he asked them now with their translator because I had a translator. Okay, that makes sense. So you asked them through a translator our borders racist. And I remember one of them laughed at you. Of course, every single one said, of course, countries have to have borders. And that includes the United States. They were incredulous. They were incredulous. And these people trying to get in. Yes. Yes.
Army Wife Talk Radio
"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"Spouse and author claire. Cain clair's career is an example of the classic military spouse efforts to find a path that works within the frame of the army's demands the challenge of pivoting careers every few years length claire to her dream job and now she's not looking back through this journey. She's learned the value of having room of her own in pairing passion with flexibility in this crazy military life. Claire lives to eat and drink her way around the globe with her traveling soldier and three kids but is perhaps even happier hunker down at home in a pair of sweat pants and slippers using any free moment. She has to read and cook or talk. She really likes to talk. Which is why. I think we're gonna get along so great today. She has an become an expert at packing too many dishes in too few cabinets and making houses into homes from utah to germany and so many places in between. She's a proud army wife. Is frankly just really happy to be here claire. Welcome to army wife talk. Radio loved your book and can't wait to talk more about it. Thanks so much for having me. I'm glad to be here before we start talking about your books. Just have to say sweatpants reading writing and food jammed to we're gonna get along wonderfully especially with the talking which you've probably figured out and our listeners. Already know that about me so excited for that. Also you've had a crazy journey as a mill spouse and had to work pretty hard to find a career that would work for you in the military life. And i'm sure a lot of our listeners are going through those pivots and career. Change is also as we speak. So let's just pop back rewind justice gauche and see how you got there. How long have you been a mill spouse and how has this influence your career We just hit the fourteen year. Mark of mill. Staus life for me. Basically my husband commissioned the same week we got married so been there since the beginning and i also was right out of college of low baby and i really had no idea what to expect with military life what to expect with my career because i was still just trying to find myself and all of that basically. I definitely wouldn't be where i am. I wouldn't be writing fulltime. I don't think If we hadn't taken this journey. Because i don't think i would have sort been forced to make those pivots people so often do and ultimately find out where i am now in that. It's where i meant to be. I had different plans and changed and changed again and changed again. You know unser. Many of us can relate to that in fact if you haven't had that happen i think your true minority but You know it's easy to see from this vantage point. Fourteen years in how beautifully some of the things that i encountered like not being able to get a phd. Which was really my plan. I uni station at twenty two which was adorable but I i ended up getting a master's degree at austin state university. Right outside of fort campbell and it was amazing. It was such a great experience at it. Started out as. I like to read and write. I guess all happened program while he's in iraq and you know bide my time. We didn't have kids and it turned into a teaching career. I taught for them for deci of ten years through three different duty station. How you know a lot of things. I couldn't have predicted so i i'm thankful for it now doesn't mean it's not still without some angst but i. I have less angst now i used to do. I used to say. I'd have us a biannual career breakdown where i just had to have a little bit of a meltdown about what i thought was going to happen and what was actually happening and i don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think some of it is letting ourselves sort of come to terms with how things look and what we thought might happen. But i think that's also just real life and we. I think i kind of wandered around there. I don't know if i actually answered question. No you totally did. And i feel like so many male spouses myself included. Kind of get the. I'm not entirely sure what i was getting into some days. We're still not sure what we're in the middle of and we're just kind of winging it kind of as we go but released still feeling that experience in that fruit from wow. This worked out way differently than i thought or planned. But here it is. It's working out. and yes. we are all entitled to our by annual. What the heck am i doing career mental emotional breakdowns of. I don't know what to do with my hands. What's happened. Especially i think is probably even after last year and a half i would say that's gonna we used to quarterly quarterly break outs. And that's okay agree hypothetically not expecting experience well thing i'm curious about claire is with your pits moving around teaching education experience. How'd you end up writing military romance. Can you tell us specifically about some of the books you've written if you had asked me a decade ago. If i would be writing romance. I would've turned by knows that you i'm ashamed to say but i definitely had a pretty big bias. Against what romance is the kind of people who read it and write it. I was not a romance career. I think i read some chick lit in high school and stuff but i got a degree in literary criticism and.
Army Wife Talk Radio
"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"I am the army wave networks social for today hosting the mill sauce empowerment moment. And we're gonna talk about some tips and tricks to about doing like a do it yourself remodel and always like help home projects I sort of thought this was a good topic. Because the housing market lately has been crazy and ripping out post with crazy for us here so we ended up buying a house and I think it's like super exciting. Because normally when you're renting house or when you're living on You can't really customize things you want to you know it's always like i would love to that wall but i don't want to have to paint it back before we le- or i would love to do this. Can't you know so. It's just nice especially after this hectic he season. But i'm sure everyone had that maybe you know there's some tips that i've just learned recently. That can help someone. So we've done a lot of projects in the house that we bought a house as december and we managed to get quite a bit done in that time. All of it was done ourselves thankfully i have a husband. That's pretty handy. I guess a little tip. I learned is. Don't get pregnant in the middle of project. Seconds hinders i mean. Do get pregnant but it definitely hits of buying ball as far as like drywall. Dust in painting some things but definitely we had really. I think you've got a lot of fun doing so far. And we've definitely learned some things to not to next time. I guess the first thing that we sort of learned was about budgeting We definitely have budgeted minds and we thought we had everything laid out and planned for resulted bumps in the road right so i guess the first step is not plan to go over budget but plan to have a little buffer zone for your budget and make sure that you don't if you go over budget it's not going to strappy financially biggest saying i guess so. We had like we wanted to stop here in this would be our buffer zone just in case for all the little things that might come up because nothing we did was really major plumbing lines or anything like that So we didn't really have too much to worry out in that aspect but definitely get yourself some grace i guess. Another example is the wallpaper that used to be on the wall behind me. Her entire kitchen was wallpapered and did not like it. So we took it to own and molly were taking it down in the process. We discover that there was five other layers of wallpaper the wallpaper in the flu backing yet and then we also learned that. The previous owners decided to paint over beaver which was exciting So that increase our budget. I mean not much with a little bit because it had to go rent a steamer and could because when you're trying to get off layers layers of wallpaper. Doing the simple veneer trick is not going to get it off. It just is not going to do that unless you did it for. Every layer which is not something that was going to be feasible five layers of paper a quick two-day projects that i thought was being nice and quick take on paper laws. Nothing crazy Forty five days. After we got all would be Wallpaper in glue end holes patched because they also would just put new holes in the wall moping over them and they would also put all the wallpaper overdrive lawyers. So don't do that. In the nicest people were by your house because a lot of fun to find out for sure but it's stuff like that so yeah that increase. Our budget a little bit reacted to rent the steamer. Which i wasn't planning on doing. Because i thought.
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"The university of phoenix in seoul south korea yolanda is a proud activity. Army spouse humanitarian and mother. She currently serves to the service of armed forces international. Us programs division manager for the central atlantic division which covers delaware. Maryland washington dc. Virginia ohio west virginia and kentucky. She's always made volunteerism serving her community. A priority holding leadership and support roles in various military in community organizations. Yulon is also an active member of alpha kappa alpha sorority inc. Where she continues her. Altruistic service focusing on implementation of programs and services impacting critical issues quality of life for people of color. She's married to lieutenant. Colonel antero see gain. Well united states army and they have to amazing grown children. Aj and jasmine yolanda. I'm very much looking forward to our conversation. Thank you for joining us today. And welcome to army. Life talk radio. Thank you for having me. Cherie too i am excited looking forward to argus goshen undoubtedly and clearly you have a lot of experience empowering military spouses just based on that really impressive bio we just shared and now you continue your journey with the american red cross solicitor in a little bit more about what the red cross can do for military families. Tell us a little bit about how you got connected with the american red cross. Sure enough to so in twenty thirteen. We pcs to honolulu. Hawaii and i am sure you know. The challenges of military spouse is trying to maintain a career while always having to relocate every two to three years prior to relocating to hawaii. I was fortunate to be a part of another national nonprofit in various locations for abroad about eight years. But here i was in hawaii. Twenty thirteen Looking floor okay. What's next for me in my career. What am i gonna do of it in hang out on the beach. Every day and i was climbing. Dimon had one saturday morning. And as i got to the top of diamond head i looked across the ridge line and i saw the building across the street in the signed said american red cross. So is that four minute. And i pondered it just to to reflect on what has been my experience as a militarised spouse with the american red cross and i thought back. I had no personal family experiences. No we career My husband's grandmother passed away. But we didn't have to use ray across. I couldn't remember you know helping other military families utilize across programs in services especially on the multiple deployments that you know we've had over the years and so i got home that day. I google redcrossblood lulu. I saw that. They had a number of volunteer opportunities as well as career opportunities to support our military and veteran. Communities i apply for a paid position was afforded the opportunity to interview received the in actually got the position and here we are seven and a half years later another. Pcs move under our belt been able to stay connected with the red cross in both Paid and volunteer positions. What a fun on ramp. that started with. I guess i could hang out the beach and climbed this mountain. But i'll climb mountain and then it just kind of as they say escalated quickly with your connection with the american right across and just shy of a decade later. Here we are so congratulations on your success in a obviously you're doing a great work with this wonderful organization And so as a military family. I would say many of us. Don't wanna think that for emergencies will happen to us but unfortunately they can happen at any time so you would you share with us. How the american red cross comes alongside military families during those emergencies or the eucharist cross. Is there to support our military families. Three hundred sixty five days out of the year twenty four hours a day in the event of emergency. We have agents at our hero here center. Who are there to gather information about the emergency. We also verify that emergency by reaching out to medical authorities police department social services whatever agency or entity can verify that emergency for us and then of course we deliver that emergency communications Message to our servicemembers chain of command. Okay well let's talk a little bit more about the kinds of emergencies that people might face. What kind of emergencies would probably quote qualify as red cross message so those emergencies that will qualify as a red cross message would have to involve a death or illness or severe illness. Urgent time critical family emergency of course birth notifications because we do know. Babies are born while servicemembers are deployed yup emergency financial assistance in ne-. Okay well thank you clarify that. Because i know that sometimes as a military spouse and a former f. r. g. leader and all that kind of stuff people like this is going on and just having a general knowledge of what's the next step you know we just need to contact chain of command directly or is this kind of a bigger deal that needs to go through the official channels of american red cross. Should the service member have the option to be able to come home or come back from wherever they're at whether that's overseas deployment a major field exercises etcetera so We've talked about kind of the military family component there. But would you also give us a little bit more insight as to who's eligible to call the red cross to reach a servicemember if there's a crisis and walk us through those steps in what the specific procedure looks like. So anyone is eligible to call the american ray across initiator ray across message. But it's important for your listeners. To note that it order to initiate a message be emergency has to involve a core group what we call. Immediate family Anyone can call if if there was an emergency. That happened in. My neighbor was aware of that emergency. My neighbor could call the american hostile initiate that re- across message but we have to ensure that that message involve immediate family member and the american red cross in deal d. Identifies immediate family. Members adds a spouse children.
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"Retired or separated or any other component is of course stressful enough without having to worry about what to do next. So we're really grateful for the program that you've given an opportunity with this additional support though awesome becky barry. Very much You know army wives network for giving us the opportunity to come in today and share you know The things that we're so cash about doing. And i love the work you're doing and again. Thank you very much for giving us the kind of the The platform to be able to share our story. Today thank you very much. It is most certainly our pleasure. And as i cheekily say sometimes this is totally are jammed. We'd love doing this for our servicemembers in our military spouses again. Thank you steven. And now we're gonna cut right back over to our host in the studio to hear their thoughts reflections on today's impairing interview with stephen poland from philosophy. Wow what an awesome interview. I'm definitely keeping philosophy as like a resource by back talk. It's now that. I know that they really just navigate. What jobs were best for you and help you get when i know that in teaching for me right now it's a little bit different than The application process is its own but honestly if ever teaching job isn't available or just want to switch it up I've definitely going to use them and let my husband know about it too for that that one day whether it's near and far because we never know that you can you can find something in the civilian sector and maybe not be as fearful of the ignored when that happens to. Wouldn't you think of the interview. Sarah i found it very interesting and very eye opening because like you said it is. It is kind of a scary Jump from the military world to the civilian world not knowing what jobs are available for both both the servicemember or the spouse and so knowing that there is this resource Paucity out there that is able to help you I find that very comforting that if that day does come sooner than later will kind of have somebody there to guide us on that journey and i really liked. I really liked what they said about. Being you know military committed that they they work with programs such as the uso the o. Two oh program. The wounded warrior that they really are a mission driven company and they really do strive to empower service members and their spouses even as they're transitioning out of the military. I like to you know his closing line at the end where he says that I don't remember word for word but something on the lines of that. Empowerment is the ability to soften the challenges that are faced at home by by the military And as a spouse that does have to deal with the challenges on the home front. I find that very Thoughtful on their part that they're willing to reach out and help us. Yes absolutely i couldn't agree more. And thank you again to stephen poland for sharing with us all of these empowering resources that philosophy has to offer again if you would like to connect stephen check them out online via facebook and twitter at philosophy that p. l. o. c. I t. y you can also find him on linked in by surging.
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"Empowerment patrol report. Today we are showcasing two of our volunteers who are m. r. e. winners by the way stands for motivated and ready to empower first step. We have our command team member our special projects coordinator brooklyn morgan brooklyn is reading interventionist for kindergarten to second grade. Mom of two and wife almost thirteen years to her high school sweetheart. She earned a bachelor's in early childhood education a masters in educational leadership an esl and dyslexia endorsement and is currently working on her doctorate education with an emphasis on educational leadership technology and autism. Her husband joined the military later in life. Currently he is a pharmacist in their hometown of conway arkansas. When he was thirty one he was sworn into the army. National guard shipped off to basic training in. Twenty twenty after bbc t. He took some time to help us. Pharmacy with the cova nineteen pandemic. They're left in the winter to complete the accelerated officer candidate school. In alabama he commissioned in april of twenty twenty. One brooke labs. Jesus being a mom cuddling her dog in spending time with her husband. She also enjoys learning either about new educational topics or a different military topics. She loves to make connections with other mill spouses. Next we want to recognize a member from our band of bloggers levonne ritchie. Lavar is originally from michigan and met her husband while they were both students at cedar bill university in ohio. She earned a bachelor's in communication arts. And she also studied bible feeder in american sign language. She is certified in teaching english as a second language. Levin has been commissioned in the us army in two thousand four and the two of them overcame a long distance relationship through five. different duty. stations. And two deployments before they finally married in two thousand eleven since then they have been stationed at seven different installations together have had four incredible children to born overseas and have traveled a decent fraction of the world levin loves jesus christ being army wife adventuring with her family musicals. Chocolate child days inequality cup of decaf. She is a home schooling. Mom who volunteers in as far. Jeez he w. o. c.'s and enjoys helping service members and their families whenever and however possible. She would enjoy connecting with you on facebook so much. Thanks goes out to brooklyn and the von for doing bear parts..
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"You're really going to advance your career. Okay arthur topic is health and this comes in two pieces so there's your mental health which is really good to take care of but there's also your physical health and so We'll start with mental which bound cheering just has this way of boosting your self confidence you step outside of your normal day to day you challenge yourself with your brain and your body. Obviously keep yourself busy in healthy and so you're using problem solving using your memory in different ways that you'd never do and that helps boost your self confidence. It also helps lower stress and it can provide you something that i got specifically from my position here in army wake network which is a sense of purpose and sometimes you don't have that you just kind of like floating day day like what am i doing right now and i had that before i found army with network in the minute i started here i was like. Wow i have an idea of what i'm doing and i am healthy. Somebody in an feeling really good about it in so faltering can really provide that to you. Another thing is physical. How when you're volunteering a lot of times. You're not just sitting down on the couch watching shows like he might be doing at home. You are typically like walking around more being more active. You have you see. You're going to have that less stress tax on last one. And so maybe you're sleeping better. Your physical health is actually better when you volunteering. And there's been studies on that I read one. That said that you live five years more five years longer. If you're a volunteer which. I don't know how accurate that is but i mean if i can get five years. Yeah i'm gonna volunteer okay. The last one which is fun. All my gosh guys. Frontier and can be so much fun. You pick what you want. You can pick things that You are interested in things that you're passionate about. You can do whatever it is that you enjoy and then in you enjoy it. You're also helping somebody else. You're getting a little break from your day to day life. You're getting a little you know. I'm thinking get monotonous and this is something different sometimes you kind of stagnant and you can get this like renewed creativity that can transfer into your personal life that can if you've gotten that stagnant peace and then you can transfer some of this these new ideas into your yard if you have an actual job if you Are momma needs something. Sometimes it just gives you that fresh that freshener. I want you to volunteer but here. It's something that you should consider to find like the right volunteer opportunity. How much time do you have. Time is a huge factor. If you can't give ten hours a day than don't pick a dumping opportunity that needs that. Just make sure that you're not like over stressing yourself and another thing is physical limitations. We did talk about physical health getting better but if you really do have some constraints that make it like certain tasks difficult than don't push yourself. Make sure you're only doing things that you're able to and then obviously when you're choosing pick something that's in your interests or skills something you're passionate about. What rights you do you love. Animals do love children or this military community. The work will be more enjoyable and rewarding when you are acted to it and the last one is schools like what is the purpose. What are you gonna get out of it. What is the the organization or community grain. Get out of it. Are you happy. With what the goals are so those are the benefits. I think you would get If you're interested in volunteering you should definitely try it out. Whether it's in the military community or out in his school or with A worship place or wherever it is you can find. What's the worst that can happen. Honestly there are many opportunities If you want any more information you can comments below. You could send a message. We will always respond back and as always thank you so much for joining me today for this mill cells..
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"Content from our speakers will be dropping hints and updates about our keynote speakers at pillared climate retreat on facebook and instagram. Over the coming months as well. I'm so excited to see where you'll go with this. Because i know that army wife network is very proud to partner with you all this year. Our very own content editor. Sarah is going to be one of your speakers. And i'm not gonna reveal our topic because that's not for me to say but let me just say very excited and army wife network is working on our little contribution for a giveaway and i'm super bias. But i love what we're doing with you all in Can't wait to see how this all shakes down for you both and your participants this year for pillar so as both of you now our conversations coming to end but our primary mission here at army wife network is empowerment and we always love to hear what our guests think about empowerment. Could you both complete this sentence. Empowerment is who i think. Empowerment is so necessary. And i think it's something that that is totally on you as well like you have to empower yourself and want to be empowered gap. I i don't know what else to say about that. I think it's it's definitely a thing that you have to want to reach out and grab. Yeah i agree. I thought joanna. I would finish that. Sentence by saying empowerment is confidence. And i think you know. One of the realities of military life is that we don't always know it's coming down the pipeline rate. We don't always know what our next duty station is going to be if we're A family that pcs regularly. We don't always know the next deployment cycle or how that's going to feel in this season of life and so learning to be confident in our capability to deal with the unknown. That makes me feel empowered. When i know. I can take this on. And it doesn't mean i have all the answers. It doesn't mean. I have a ten step game plan. Even though i'd like to we need that. I feel confident. Living in not unknown and that makes me feel empowered. That makes me feel like. I can take some control and initiative over my family's life and my life even in the midst of military craziness well said ladies very well said becky joanna thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing.
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"What did you think of the interview. I honestly That it was amazing. I really appreciated the overlap of the twenty years of been surveys. With the end of the twenty years of operations in afghanistan is pointing about telling the stories of development is so important for sir not development but deployment is so important for servicemembers that deployed in support of the global war on terror. Because they truly are the last legacy of that conflict deployments. they're no longer to those areas so the experiences that the soldiers have in their stories to be told are from the of course. The ones that were there. And that's what makes it so authentic in just so touching to hear of those times that they had that they free in. Hopefully soldiers today will have to go through your. That's a great point. And i think there's so much that we can learn to from those experiences of the people who were there with ben. You know he was there for. He's been in the military for twenty years so that entire time. How much has he learned because he was enlisted first and then he took the officer. He's seen a lot of various sides. Also i think he was national guard or reserve at the beginning and then transition to active duty. So there's a lot going on there that he has as a takeaway. And i think that ben is such an authentic storyteller and it was interesting for me to hear his voice and have him talk about the book. Because i read it. As i said earlier i read it a couple of months back and he truly rights as he speaks so hearing him talk. It was like. Oh i've i've met this guy like i. I know him and the the book unfolds like a conversation. You would have over a couple of drinks. And i think he mentioned that Something like that earlier in the interview as a goal of this book to sound not really so stuffy but to just sound like hey we were having a couple of drinks. Let's have a conversation. And that realness gets reeler with some of his stories about the suck of the deployment You know deployments are never fun by. I laughed when he was sharing about the showering in ankle. Deep water and the bathrooms because people really bond over those shared experiences of the suck. Right you know the the the bad experiences of what we couldn't avoid it. That type of thing are the stories that you can look back and laugh on. And i think that those are good experiences for those soldiers to remember it shares. Well absolutely like you said to share them in. That's those experiences they think are what tend to come up when servicemembers relive their deployment days with each other. It's like oh hey you were at this base. I was there to remember. X. y. z. That happened or you know what the structure was like that they lived in or something and i also connected with with him with the idea of doing something that you'll be so proud of but not yet wanting to share it with someone else until it's completed and i just i would love to read something else by him sometime in the future. Oh absolutely it. Keep on writing. Ben because everyone knew right we'll go ahead and read so just keep them coming more as that was such a great interview and for now. Let's check in with this week's resource recon. It's all about our latest. Social media scoop ever been curious about the volunteers who keep the website and podcast. Raleigh you can see all of their faces their titles and some fun clips by checking out our real on instagram. All thirteen yes. There are thirteen of us. Members of the army wife network command team are represented. We're living all over the world so it's a rare thing to see us all in one place. Thank you technology. I absolutely loved it when brooke reach to us and asked us if we wanted to do that. Real because of like. I just stated we are all over the place and you know it's impossible for us to all try to meet up in one location so just being able to put faces to names on instagram real and i really think that our personalities came out. I loved yours with the book in the live league in brittany with her. Little air. gums the door. Oh my goodness they were amazing. We joke all the time behind the scenes like when we have our meetings and stuff and we always say like. Oh we're going to do like this army wife network command team retreat sometime. We're all going to meet in one place and we're just going to enjoy getting to know each other because many of us have never met in person and so it is so cool to just see us all in one place and to see all of our faces and Amber you mentioned brooke brooke our special projects coordinator and so this is kind of like her thing is to just do these cool little things and i thought she just did a terrific job she did. It was amazing. I loved it and i hope that all of our listeners go watch it because i think that it will give him a little smile and laugh as well. I have no shame in saying that our social media is really fun place to be and let me tell you. We have some real champions. And i mean that in the anyway as in the instagram rails as well as just people who are so good at making them and they're serving up really great stuff on instagram listeners..
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"Were continuing our conversation with ginger and michelle all about army traditions customs and protocol so ladies. Let's get into a few more of the specifics. What are some examples of army protocol. An army spouse should have a general working knowledge about. We have been trying to hit on all those topics in our blogs. So we've been doing that for about a year so these came up with just conversations with army spouses. They had questions or maybe we have seen certain things in the community. Some of the hot topics actually even when we were reading the blogs it was so close to my heart was the national flag etiquette and knowing how to display that flag on your house you might have it during a ceremony. I mean we do have the protocol offices to help us but as spouses. Sometimes we are on our own so that that's definitely one of the blogs that The difference between memorial day and veterans day honoring soldiers on veterans day. And then those that have passed on memorial day and With our honor and remember blog understanding gold star families. If you see someone with the gold star emblem the button just understanding the sacrifice that that family has gone through understanding taps retreat in. Reveille when you're on post. It is just wonderful to see the young children down those customs and traditions have are being passed down and so it's not like they're reading the blog the little kids but they are because their parents have shared that with them and they have seen that again soon as it is in our dna. Because sean i. Our soldiers have been in the military. You know thirty eight forty years so as soon as we would hear retreat jumping out of the car standing at attention. My sister didn't know what was happening. It's five o'clock just said. What are we doing chinese. Fire drill this thing and it's it's one of my favorite parts of the experience especially when you mentioned gender watching our kids do that like it is every every day. It's a moving experience when we lived on post. Yes and i mean again does even dressing for the occasion. We want spouses to feel comfortable. One of the most uncomfortable. Things is is to walk in when on invitation it may say for instance. It was cal carolina casual well. A friend of mine didn't know what that meant. And because it didn't say in the parentheses give an example of what that may mean to you if they've never been to carolina the cure allies. They wouldn't know what that meant. What is casual. I feel like. I don't know what to do. I live in north carolina. I had no clue what she was a little better. I was like what i miss right. I mean it was more or less a sundress gear white white slacks with a light top for females. And i guess it was khakis not like a really a given dress code fort hood. Texas casual was not casual. See people buying skirts. All this stuff or textile schedule. I think in jeans and boots and cowboy hat. Hang on when to go back to that thing with flag etiquette. And when you're talking about how the children when they pay honor to the flag. And i loved it. I just brought me back to when we were stationed at fort leavenworth and Sitting out in the front of our of our orders are building and all the kids running around with their little tykes cars and all that kind of stuff at boy they hear retreat and they'd all immediately. I mean we're talking to three or four year olds getting up and turning towards where they heard or they knew where the flag was heard the music coming from and and giving her to the to the flag it was just wonderful and really really touching moment. I think all parents especially in the military really really like that when they see their children doing the same thing in one of our other blogs discussing rank and understanding how how to respond to people. But i think actually everyone deserves respect and but it is good to understand what those ranks mean and the authority and the responsibility that certain soldiers may have michelle and i- rsvp's we want to share and encourage people to rcb. You're going through a lot of effort to host an event and not knowing how many people are coming can can really throw an event off when we touch these other things on the blogs and and michelle is great at writing about reciprocity and thank you notes. I've had to learn over the years to get better at that myself. I'm really a horrible. Thank you that writer and tried to do better. At so writing about it really kept at the forefront of my brain does much better this year since writing that long and another thing with indies. We always would love to get feedback on the blog. People writing questions underneath. It really helps us in coming up with other ideas about writing blogs. What is the topic of the day in what's going on with our active duty families realizing to To learn how to address are gold. Star families are blue star families. And it's okay to go up to a gold star mom and ask. What was your son like. What was your daughter like. you know. They've that means so much to them. Learning not to say happy memorial day. Right you can just say yes for keeping those in in our hearts and minds today on the memorial day is a much better A greek greeting or you just pay tribute for that day. I do want to mention briefly to how much research that is done for these these blogs and how much research ginger at and did when writing those books and trying to update information jinja's graded by reading reaching the subject matter experts such army protocol office or the west point protocol office. So we don't make this stuff up. I mean we really try to find out the true history tradition before writing anything and some of it. We will say we'll try to write. Our opinion is or. Here's how we did things so that you know that this is not in stone but it's just suggestions just for the ease of entertaining or being social situation or at our military formal function and we can't tell you everything that we know after all these forty or just trying to tell you everything we think you need to know at least launch into this wonderful wonderful adventure most certainly and i feel like even just this conversation. There's so much there's two full books written on this constantly evolving constantly changing so this conversation is very much that can thirty thousand foot flyover view of just dipping our toes in and even your blogs and army life network again..
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"Were both highly active army spouses during their husbands long army. They both met at fort stewart. Georgia weather husbands were brigade commanders together during the initial iraq phase in two thousand one two thousand and three they bonded through the war as well as their love of the army and its traditions. An protocol ginger. Michelle so excited chat today welcomed army wife talk radio. Hi hello thanks so much for asking us. Thank you so much cerita for the opportunity to share our passion of protocol and traditions with your listeners. Today on very much looking forward to it. Because it's i feel like traditions in protocol is one of those things that is so important but sometimes a really difficult thing to get our mind brains actions around so our listeners might not know. But bulla view are expert bloggers for army wife network and has been such a blessing to read your blogs on our website. I've learned a ton. I'm not a new male spouse. But i'm always learning staffing especially learn a lot through yours and also you have third merger team and crossley that also contribute so between the two of you in and you have seventy two years of experience as army spouses and such a breadth of knowledge protocol etiquette traditions. So let's jump in and chat. Why do we care about protocol etiquette and traditions. Many people use ginger. This back stewart. Why you guys care. And i just always felt that we talked about this a lot. That helping soldiers in spouses feel comfortable attending various army events as we know others many at ross the different parts of the of the army helps hopefully take away some of the anxiety and apprehension By getting all of those working together. The protocol the etiquette. End the traditions. We just think it helps to share our experiences and continued to support in that regard. Ginger always says we retired spouse. Those are the wind beneath the active duty army spouses wings. Now in this time of our lives so we still love it. Still live and breathe it even in retirement understanding the why behind. Why the army traditions. I think will help. The spouses enjoy their life their army of understanding that martha washington being the first first lady of the army started. Having coffees because general washington. He needed to gather support so he did that. Then when he became president he started off. With having the new year's receptions and then after that thomas jefferson began having the receiving lines. So when you understand that it started many years ago the army is a year older than our nation so us as spouses can can continue this tradition in. Enjoy doing it to say that much like the your family and cultural traditions. Knowing i think army the history of army traditions and practicing them truly everyone across the army in different installations around the world followed kind of similar guidelines and the same protocol Guidelines help as you make all these different moves across installations and have some continuity and familiarity between installations. And you know that across your fort. Bliss and someone over in germany are doing the same things and doing the same change of command protocols as we are on each installation i think that adds such a depth of unity to the mill spouse experience so because i feel like sometimes it's military spouses were very much here and now or what's next and you know and i'm speaking from personal experience often. I don't take a lot of time to think about what was or the richness that our history holds and so ginger. What you mentioned about you know. Martha washington has the first first lady. Like that's ever really crossed my mind. And so when we engage in these traditions in protocols at the coffees or the balls or fill in the blank the change of you know change responsibility. Change of command. That's not just something to be like checked the box but it's an experience we get to not only with our other mill spouse current generation military spouses. Also those who have gone before us and also those who will come after us. I would love to know with you know. Let's think a little bit deeper. What is the underlying principle of etiquette within this military spouse. Life will an crossley has said. She uses the golden rule of etiquette which she says treat others the way. You would like to be treated and i think in life. I voice followed. That i love. I love that saying but it also goes to. Kindness and respect are gender neutral so the core protocol and etiquette concepts haven't really changed but they do become more inclusive. We just hope over time with different changes in environments And how the army does things of that stands true and share. I think sharing social skills and cultural awareness with each other military protocol traditions. So that etiquette in greece are a second nature becomes second nature of the more. You know in a ginger and i were chatting just yesterday about. We came into this life not knowing anything about the military. We weren't military brats. And so we you know it's like i. I was just one that bought into it from day. One i loved it. I loved tradition. And so i just really tried to learn Each at each and every installation something new about the army something with spouses networking indefinitely. An extrovert so very easy for me to do that. Same yeah. But i just think it just became second nature and i did. I mean we all make mistakes and we all make said we laugh at yourself and don't take it so seriously nice to know it but still have fun with it right and so kind of what i feel that protocols how to do it and etiquette is knowing what to do but doing graciously and so being gracious sometimes it is better to do the wrong thing graciously than the proper thing rudely ou right. Oh that's good awesome. The wrong thing graciously is better than doing the right thing rudely correct that makes a lotta sense. I can really see that in our military spouse life. Because i think know even though it seems like there's a lot of like do's and don'ts rights and wrongs i think it comes down. I mean i can see it here chatting with you gals you know the heart for what you're doing that you're not like here's the rules by bubba. But it's like here's my heart to like honor these traditions. That have these experiences in. I'd think about what you said as far as you know when you first came in the military not having experienced. I'm the same way. I'm not a military brat for the first even few years and sometimes even now twelve years into it. I'm like what do i do with my hands Do i sit. Do i stand and i'm just like whispering to my husband during military balls like tell me what to do and my making choices like i'm trying really hard and i think that's where it is like your heart is humbled and really into the experience and the you can laugh when you're like whoops shouldn't have shouldn't said that you know to the army. Oops i said you know to the commander in chief instead or whatever during those notes just kind of chuckle at that instead of you know really beat ourselves up about it right. Yeah because that's when you when you see a lot of military spouse especially senior or more seasons spouses Like say a giggling off to the side. We're not laughing at you relaxing with you. Because we were there to. Yes yes catched that. It's we're really there with you. Insist brotherhood with our fellow spouses. So just so that they know that yes absolutely not making fun. We're like oh yeah. I remember that day. That was one for the record books and you can always go back and apologize. I've done that where call people years later. Know that time. I invite you to something i should have included you. I'm so sorry. I just didn't know any better. That makes a huge difference. Also well i think it goes without saying that of course. The life of an army spouse is pretty different from the wife in civilian spouse but tell us more about that in the light of traditions protocol and etiquette..
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"Band of bloggers. This week's spotlight comes from brooklyn morgan's post titled seven misconceptions of the national guard brooklyn rights. There was a time in my life. When i knew nothing about the national guard. All i knew was what i learned in history class about their role with the little rock. Nine i also knew that i saw them. After tornado outbreaks in my state she continues to share. About seven misconceptions. People often believe about those serving in the national guard and their spouses. Was you think about this blog. Amanda so even though i personally am not a national guard spouse myself i really feel like brooklyn's blog is just spot on in so many ways i like ably didn't have close friends. That are in the national guard. I really would not know much about it either. And until. i'm pretty sure. I thought most of those misconceptions were true. Also it was so relatable just as an army spouse considering that a lot of civilians often don't understand what we go through four. How the military operates. i know. My friends are always asking me like. I don't understand how you can live this way. Now i don't get it either. But even fellow mel spouses can have such different different experiences to a part of post that really resonated with me is when she talks about meeting. Another national guard spouse in states. Her husband is currently in the guard and she explained some of their experiences to me. But not much can prepare you for wet. Life would look like until you have personally experienced it and that part is just so well said about how nothing really can prepare. Is we just have to really live it and experience it ourselves. What did you think about it kristie. I totally agree with all that. I mean honestly like even coming into just a regular meal spouse life you know you look at it like what did army wives show me on that. Tv show and it's like okay. That's a little blip of what it's like but you actually have to like you said you have to live it. I love how she also put like. You know national guard. They kind of have their feet in both worlds there definitely in the civilian world living their civilian life but they're also military. There never really fully committed to either one so like they have. They have friends close by that. Can maybe support them. But they don't understand anything about national guard but then they also have people in national guard and military life. Don't really know what they do either. So it's just it's so hard. And i honestly didn't know much about it either so it was really helpful for me to read this because i was questioning. I didn't know they had to be connected to the states you know. Each individual state has their own Jurisdiction or whatever so definitely a really good read. Yeah brooklyn did a great job beyond our blog. We also have empowering things taking place in real life with our empowerment patrol report followed by a health minute from the army surgeon. General and after that we're going to check in with army wife network news. Six correspondent joe lean mcnutt as she shares. This week's top stories but right. Now let's hear from you. Amanda with this week's empowerment patrol report. Arwa talk radio listeners. I'm amanda piece string you. This week's empowerment patrol report. Today we are showcasing army wife networks everyday empowerment recipient. Liz bolt nominated by our very own. Amber peterson who states that. Liz is an army wife at mom of three kiddos under five. Recently her husband was on a rotation for eight months while she was pregnant and carrying two toddlers even with all that going on lists found a way to make time for other army wives as well for example she even offered a lot of help and support for another middle spouse who was pregnant and her husband was gone as well. Liz is the type of empowering reliable friend battle. Buddy mel spouse that you want around always the of others even when things are chaotic at home and she's always willing to help out from sending money for starbucks. Pick me up on a random day to always being that smiling face and lending a listening ear to others. Liz is the embodiment of everyday empowerment on behalf of army wife network. Thank.
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"In the past next we want to recognize a member from our band of bloggers anesthesia kennedy anesthesia. Shares that she has been an army wife for almost four years and a mother to to handsome young men. She is an was a military child. The army has been a part of her entire life. Anesthesia was born and raised in fort bragg north carolina. Both of her parents were active. Duty soldiers stationed at brag for the remainder of their careers after she graduated. She figured her army lifetime was over until she met her now. Has been in two thousand sixteen oddly enough. He was stationed at brag when they met now that she is a spouse. She is experiencing the army in a different way. She shares that she always tries to see and find the positive side of this life and make it as easy as she possibly can for both herself and her family they currently at their third duty station in illinois. She does miss the convenience of the px walking tracks and easily being able to make friends with other spouses but the area they live in is very peaceful and close to a lot of activities for her family to enjoy. Anesthesia is so thankful for her friends from their last duty station in el paso as they continue to be positive for us for her. She enjoys crocheting cooking and going for walks. You can often find her crocheting during the day or doing mommy activity with her three year old. She believes that being an army spouse is a blessing she can meet new people and explore new places. Anesthesia cannot wait to see what the future has in store for her south in her family. So much thanks goes out to both britney anesthesia for doing their part empower military families all across the globe until next time. I'm a niece reminding you that we are never completely alone on this military life journey. Congratulations again our emory winners brittany o. Keith and anesthesia kennedy. We truly appreciate you bower listeners. If you know someone an organization who is empowering those around you head over to army white network dot com to nominate them on our website. You'll look under the menu for get involved and click on the tab everyday.
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"The info i'm all on your streaming platforms as well two thousand miles on just about every string platform. You can think of all over that. Keep everybody up to date on what i'm up to. And hopefully the older writes music in have music currently out the big can connect to it's Excellent will we sure appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. Come chat with us about this. And we've mentioned a few times during our conversation all about empowerment because that is our primary mission here. Army wife network is one of my favorite. Parts of the show is getting feedback from our guests on what they believe. Empowerment is so. How would you complete this sentence. Empowerment is i think. Empowerment is confidence. When you're coughing and you're able to do so much in confident people can help empower other people. Confidence begins confidence. Empowerment empowerment. I'm right there with you. Girl completely complain yes naringin. Thank you so much for coming onto the show sharing your journey. It's clear that you have wisdom beyond your years in such authentic authenticity and passion. And you're just so genuine. And i just love that in the small town girl from small town girl. I've i just want to adopt you or leader. Bring you under my swing or invite you into my mill styles tried. Because you've got a lot of good stuff going you just can't wait to cheer you on. She continued to empower and inspire others with your music in your personal journey. All thank you so much you got me. I'm all yours. Thank you saw over the adoption papers shortly. Just kidding all right well we wish you all the best and now we're gonna pop back over to our host to hear what they thought of. Today's conversation with syrianly back to you. Ladies in the studio zinni bound to crash over over to two drops it do a a keyboard absolutely So feels so now for.
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"And i'm your host empowerment agent. Amanda and i'm your social media coordinator kayla goblin. Amanda is so right army. Wait network wants you to know that you are not on this journey alone. We have the resources you need to meet you. Exactly where you are in this military life including segments such as resource recon empowerment action interviews with empowering guests and so much more speaking of interview stay tuned because in a few minutes. Listen to an interview conducted by owner in commanders sharia knob block as she chats with today's guests. Music artists dairy annely kayla. I'm super excited to be hosting with you today. What's going on a military life for you right now. While nothing crazy it's been a nice lol which is out of the ordinary. I'm definitely taking advantage of that. We just celebrated our five year anniversary yesterday by removing wallpaper in the house that we fought so it's just really exciting time over year my husband and i we just celebrated our seven year anniversary on the twelfth and we were allowed we were not even together so that sounds much more typical than mine honestly so that makes sense. Well that's awesome i. I know that. I'm enjoying my goals of the summer right now to do well. It's good to catch up with you kayla. When i heard about the topic for the interview today. I got subaru excited. Serena's interview darrien. Lee is both encouraging and empowering so let's listen in as she shares about her country music journey and latest song ten thousand miles a tribute to military family..
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"To lie is group b. Strep awareness month group b. streptococcus known as gb s. is the number one cause of newborn infection. Gps causes meningitis and sepsis. Severe infections can cause death. Gps is a bacteria that lives in the gut and the urinary and vaginal tracks of about one in four women about fifty percent of pregnant women with gps transmit the bacteria to their new-borns and they can develop gps shortly after birth to reduce the risk of newborn gb s disease. All pregnant women should be screened for gps between thirty six and thirty seven weeks of their pregnancy women with positive. Gps tests or those with other risk factors should be treated with antibiotics during labor and our win. Their water breaks. Talk to your obgyn for more information. Army medicine is army strong. No news is typically good news in this military life radio so here is our aws in new six correspondent with this week shop stories. High anne and chrissy here are this week's top stories reports of delays. In last minute cancellations from moving companies are adding additional stress to send military families mms. A combination of labor shortage and increased military household goods shipments and a nationwide shortage of packers and truck drivers are contributing to the issue reported. Military dot com. This year of the one hundred thirty thousand moves scheduled so far there have been one hundred twenty.
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"Bringing you this week's empowerment patrol report. Today we are showcasing army wife networks every day empowerment recipient lindsey wheat. Who was nominated by molly. Ritter back here is what molly has to say about. Lindsay lindsay always goes above and beyond to make spouses feel welcomed and loved when they are part of the unit there with in why she has always making fun gifts and is sure to keep people invited in the loop. I always appreciated people who made sure to always reach out and she is definitely one of them not to mention the many many many hours of selfless service she gives volunteering and leading girl scouts. She is one of us a spouse mom and so much more she never lets. People feel left out and no matter how tiresome that can be she does it with a smile and keeps on a little bit about lindsay is that she has been a military spouse for seventeen years. She loves being part of the military community. Lindsey plants her roots and makes herself useful wherever they moved. Her family has lived in six states and they are always on the move. Lindsey loves being active in. Sf are g and p w. o. c. As well as coffee events that is of course when she's not chasing her four children around or attending another event whether their spouse she also holds the coveted shield of sparta lindsay. Says she loves being a military spouse on behalf of army wife network. Thank you so much to lindsey wheat for doing your part to empower military families all across.
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"army" Discussed on Army Wife Talk Radio
"Are here for you. This is episode number eight hundred twenty eight. And i'm your host chris gibbs aws content curator. And i'm amanda krieger. Your army wife network assistant heartache curator. Christie is so right. Army wake network wants you to know that you're not on this journey alone we're here and we're cheering you. All the way with the resources you need to meet you. Exactly where you are in military life including segments such as resource recon empowerment and action interviews with empowering gusts and so much more speaking of interviews stay tuned because in a few minutes will listen to an interview conducted by sharia knob. Lock our commander in chief as she chats with guests. Michael geyer about the wounded heroes documentary. I'm super excited to be hosting with your day. What's going on in. Hp for We are still unpacking. Such a long process her. Yes i feel and it's hard when you wanna be like outside and the beautiful weather i don't know how are you enjoying the el paso heat. I'm slowly getting used to it. I'm how to learn how important hydration is mary. That is so true. you always forget. Just how hot it is when it's that dry heat. Having a rough time adjusting a we were in florida with the humidity. I don't know the humidity here in. Kansas is just insane right now. Ov- boy yeah. I'm sure an florida as definitely has it. Yes summer for you right we we all just strive to get dumber and then when it comes. Were like whoa. This is hot. Basically just want to spend the whole summer in the water. Yes can't be that all right so good to catch up with you. Amanda when i heard the topic for the interview today i have pretty amped up. Sri this interview with michael geyer is. I think we can all relate to in this lifestyle in some way or form. But i don't wanna give away too much so before we get started. We want to take a quick moment to thank our army way. Talk radio show sponsor. I command i. Command offers complimentary financial plans for active duty military.