military deployments

Elysia in San Diego, Not on the Group W Bench

by Mitja on August 16, 2011

Elysia arrived safe and sound in California after her third flight across the Pacific Ocean in a month. I have to admit that when I heard she would spend several days being processed at Naval Base San Diego, I thought of Arlo Guthrie being drafted for Vietnam only to be found unfit for the military [...]

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Father and Daughter, Home Alone

by Mitja on February 1, 2010

The Army War College released new research last week examining the effects of multiple deployments on adolescents.  The report confirms several of the well-known coping mechanisms used by military families dealing with deployments — keep busy! — but there were some interesting findings as well. They found that the largest factors that help children cope with [...]

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