Operation Purple Healing Adventures is a family camp experience for active duty or medically retired service members.

You are an important factor on the homefront; you keep your family intact and functioning during deployments, separations and the many stresses of military life. So why wouldn’t you care for yourself?

Former Marine spouse Mallory Martinez and her husband may still be newlyweds, but Mallory has had her share of military life. From living apart for close to 3 years, 2 deployments and the new transition from military life to civilian life. In this interview, Mallory opens up about how she deals with the stresses of military life as well as the joys.

About to experience her first Permanent Change of Station alone while her husband is deployed, Crystal has begun to build the courage and strength usually found only after years of marriage.

When constantly moving and only staying in a certain area for a few years or so, maintaining a career can be one of the many difficult tasks we must endure. But it does not have to be so difficult.

Has anyone ever come across a male military spouse? When people think about military spouses, they assume that they are women. Today, there are more than 6% of male military spouses, and still there is little to no recognition for them.

I think the most important thing people can do for anyone, not just military wives is to just be there, listen, be a friend and don’t judge. We are all individuals, and I have yet to meet a single military wife who can fit in the mold created by all the stereotypes and assumptions of the general public.

During a separation, getting used to sleeping alone may take some getting used to. You may find that in order to fall asleep you will acquire strange sleeping habits.

Sakennah Kilogi is a mother of two, Navy wife and a full time student. During her husband’s recent deployment, she dealt with many obstacles and the hardest one being a single mom.

At first, I didn’t think much about my husband being in the military because he was a Reservist only drilling once a month and going away for annual training two weeks a year. Almost ten years later and I look back today in such amazement, because I truly was so inexperienced and had no idea what this life would bring me. As crazy as military life may be at times, I would not change one thing about it. I do however wish I’d had someone at the time who could have guided me and prepared me for what I was about to experience.