Laura Browder on NPR's Tell Me More discusses the challenges of women who are forced to juggle deployment with motherhood.

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NPR's "Tell Me More" featured a sad, but hopeful profile of Lisa Bolling who was sexually assaulted while deployed in Germany. After a stint on the streets, Lisa is now putting her life back together and helping other female veterans by encouraging them to report trauma immediately.

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Today we came across another great organization for military families!  FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) is a service initiated by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) that addresses concerns related to parental combat operational stress injuries and combat-related physical injuries by providing state-of-the-art family resiliency services to military children and families at designated Navy and Marine Corps sites.  FOCUS is based on over 20 years of research with children and families facing challenges and ...

Marine children living at Camp Pendleton receive extra support during deployment, thanks to Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego.  In 2004, Big Brothers Big Sisters launched Operation Bigs, after receiving requests for support from military parents at the Marine Corps Base.  Since it began at five schools in Camp Pendleton, it has expanded to serve 146 children at nine different sites.  It is the first program of its kind on a military base, and ...

Yesterday NPR shared an audio story and article about the high rate of unemployment for military spouses.  While the national unemployment rate is about 9 percent, the rate for military husbands and wives is closer to 26 percent, according to a Defense Department survey from last year.  It can be difficult for military spouses to stay employed due to their need to move every few years.  Despite being more educated than the general population, military ...

When the war in Afghanistan began back in 2001, the iPhone had not been invented, and no one knew what Facebook was.  Photographers and videographers were sent overseas to record soldiers' experiences from behind their professional lenses. 

But now a more raw view of the war has become available, thanks to the iPhone application, Hipstamatic.  This application allows users to take a quick snapshot and manipulate it with various lens, flash, and film stock effects ...

This morning I read an article from Happy Homefront about getting help during long-distance, long-term relationships.  The article is actually written by a commercial fisherman's wife, Jen, who started her own blog for commercial fishing families.  Although I have never considered the similarities between commercial fishing families and military families, the article described experiences and advice that I think would be very helpful to any husband or wife left behind during a spouse's ...

This morning we came across a wonderful review from Silent Warriors of a children's book, A Paper Hug by Stephanie Skolmoski.  The book explores the experiences of a child who's father is being deployed, including all of the emotions and thoughts that many children experience at this trying time.  In the story, the boy puts together a care package for his dad to take on his trip, and decides to make a paper ...

Richmond Magazine recently met with Laura Browder, University of Richmond professor, author, and Mothers at War filmmaker to discuss the upcoming documentary.  It's wonderful to get such great coverage, especially this early in the filmmaking process, so please check out the article and share it!  As always, we appreciate the incredible support we have gotten from our community.          

When Nora Tyson graduated from college in 1979, she never would have predicted that she would end up joining the Navy, let alone rise through the ranks to become a female trailblazer.  Nonetheless, last year Tyson became the first female to command a carrier strike group.  Although Tyson is humble about her role as the commander of the USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group, for the many Navy women who came before her ...