...Balancing Your Military Career and Family Life during Long Deployment Military duties especially away from the usual environment can put a heavy strain on the family of a soldier. This is more common to the young and first time service members in mission areas, who have not been away from their families for longer period of time. There is always fear of unknown to both deployed soldier and the family being left behind. Therefore a strategy should be in place to check the foreseen stress and strain to both the soldiers and their families. The newly married soldiers in long deployment mission and multiple deployments have had their own experiences with uncertain outlook on the future, separation, divorce become common among such soldiers; this...
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...Military Families Many citizens of the United States join the military to serve their country. A person that is in the military can be deployed all around the world. They could be on deployment for a few months or a few years. Some leave their wife, husband, or children behind for work. Others take their family along for the deployment. Military children live a completely different lifestyle than the average kid. Growing up as a military child there are many advantages and disadvantages. Military children are at a disadvantage compared to the standard child due to the lack of consistency in their life and are more likely to be involved in more fights.. A military family that travels with the parent on deployment gains the advantage to see more of the world. A...
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...Effects of Military Service on Children and Families Abstract When a service member is deployed or sent on a tour, this has a drastic change in the life of the service member’s family especially the children. Being the family of a military service member is already a difficult and complex lifestyle; deployments don’t make it any easier. Military deployment is a unique experience affecting both service members who make sacrifices for our country, and the loved ones who await their return. The potential for deployment is a constant reality. Today’s military deployments may occur in rapid succession and be extended. Therefore, military personnel and their families must always be deployment-ready. Deployments are not easy and can create significant stress for U.S. military men and women and their families. In many cases deployments cans create problems in families. It can contribute to marital problems, family dysfunction, and emotional or behavioral disturbance in spouses and children. The primary purpose of this research paper is to describe the effects of military deployments on a families and children. This paper will discuss the effects and they type of effects the military families and children are faced with. “Deployments in the United States have increased greatly in the past 10 years. Families and children are psychiatrically affected by these deployments and recent studies are clarifying these effects.” (James 2012, p.16) Deployments in military service...
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...Military Deployment and the effects on their family members Martin C. Weiss Eng/147 2/02/15 Patricia Nereim This is My Daughter, Julie Katilyn Weiss and her boyfriend LCPL Dillon G. Lackus is a U.S Marine Military Police Officer and LCPL Lackus is stationed at Camp Hanson, Okinawa, Japan. Military Deployment and the effects on their Family Members In America, the weight of the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan falls heavily upon military families. In fact, military families are living the new normal.”What that really means is that this,” intense life of repeated deployments, of prosthetics, of memorial services, this is what life is going to look like for us from now on, so we had better learn to deal with it. ( (Lyden, 2009) It’s a shame, that every military family has to deal with the decision of what their child has decided to do just coming out of high school. The good-bye until the next time is the hardest because they waited so long to see them. And it goes by so fast that the next thing you know they have to go back. Family members are faced with emptiness when that day comes; when their families and friends watch them walk away with their...
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...in the Middle East, martial families have undergone the emotional distress of deployment. For Deploying service members and families, there are assets accessible to aid throughout shifts. Even though the military has encountered many challenges ever since the war, social work has prepared resolutions to offer military families with optimism and encouragement to assist them to emphasize on their families as dear ones are deployed, and direct them with a base to construct upon inside their families. Through many programs and services accessible to the military people, they are allowed to utilize these services for numerous problems in their lives. PROBLEM STATED Ever since the September 11, 2001, terrorist assail, American troops have been set out approximately 3.3 million times to Iraq and Afghanistan, states the Defense Department Data (Tan, 2009). It is calculated that more than 2 million men and women have carried those deployments with 793,000 of them deploying more than one time (Tan, 2009). A lot of the military members are National Guard and Military Reservists entitled to task. EARLY LITERATURE ON MILITARY FAMILIES • Army families have been a component of the United States military services for more than the last two centuries, but martial life for family units has altered along with communal alterations (Pryce et al., 2012, p. 120). • Throughout the Gulf War, deployment of 199-1991 approached at a dreadful point for military families (Baker, 2008, p. 122). This...
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...Stressors of Military Families Stressors are simply defined by Webster’s Dictionary: as something that makes you worried or anxious: or something that causes stress. Being apart of a military family for over the past twenty-one years, I can definitely relate to common stressors that military families may encounter. There are so many dynamics that are involved with having a family member who is enlisted in the military no matter what branch of service they serve in. In a military environment, circumstances can change drastically and dramatically in a matter of time. Stress is a key part of military life in general; however, there are several stressors that can have a big impact on military life; moving from state to state or even from country...
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...Who in my family should join our military? My mother? My father? There are many people to choose from, and it could be a friend. Well, my choice would be my loving grandma. I was planning on going to the military but things happen in life and you have to adjust some things. Anyways, I choose her because she shows respect to authority, protected the innocent, and always stood up for herself and her family. I could have the worst day ever, but when I could talk to my grandma, she knew just what to say and it turned my frowns upside down because she always kept her word. When someone did something wrong, or even went to jail, she respected authority and did just want they said to get that person out. Mainly it was some cousins being crazy. The...
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...Effects of Deployment on Military Families: A Literature Review Rhonda Steffek Columbia College of Missouri Abstract This review examines the many issues and effects that military deployments have on families. The continuation of Middle Eastern conflicts require a constant flow of military operations in this region. Deployments cause military service members, which can also be spouses and parents, to leave their homes. This is usually for extended periods of time in support of combat operations away from their loved ones. Researchers report findings that show associations between deployments and increased alcohol and drug use, relationship and communication problems, and developmental delays in children. Deployments create strong emotional stressors, greatly impacting these military families. Military families may need to seek additional help from social workers to address the negative effects that deployments tend to create. A recommendation for future studies into the positive effects of deployments is also discussed as this can be useful for social workers to develop service plans. Keywords: literature review, military family, deployment Effects of Deployment on Military Families: A Literature Review Military families are exposed to a myriad of challenges that many civilian families never have to face. One of the greatest challenges is deployment. A deployment requires a service member to be separated from their family for extended periods of time...
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...ENG215 Caroline Lusk Full-length Article – Final Fanning the Home Fires: Raising Awareness and Caring for military kids & families During my husband’s career, my family and I have visited several military installations: Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Fort Dix, New Jersey to name a few. If you have never visited an Army base, it’s quite an experience. In some respects, it’s not much different than many middle-income towns in America, but in other ways, it’s very different. The people you meet there feel like family somehow. They, like you, are aware that if you are on the base, shopping or in the grocery store that it’s likely you or someone in your family may be faced with the same uncertain but inevitable struggle; coping with the deployment of a family member. Education, teaching coping strategies and connecting families and service personnel to the available resource has been a top initiative of the US Armed Forces in the past 5 years. With the increased dependency upon Reserve and National Guard components to supplement force strength, an unprecedented burden has been placed on the American family. For those individuals who are actively serving as a part-time soldier, deployments mean separation, family hardship and leaving their ordinary everyday lives to serve their Country. In my case, my husband Mark serves as a Sergeant in the Pennsylvania National Guard as a tank commander. He has been...
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...Abandonment of the Military Family Linda D. Frost College Writing I Westwood College Online Abandonment of the Military Family Day one May 28, 2008 the countdown to hell. Today has come. The girls and I are driving to the airport to pick my spouse, their dad after returning from his tour in Afghanistan. This should be an exciting day, but instead of the girls singing to the song playing on the radio, we are all silent. Excited to see him, but not sure if we're ready for what’s ahead of us, for him to return home. We put smiles on our faces and have genuine tears in our eyes as we hold our home made poster board welcome home message to him. His plane lands and we watch for him to come down the escalator to where we are waiting. He's not smiling, but looking very tired and irritable. The girls and I give him a big hug and say welcome home, but say nothing else, waiting for him to respond only if he felt like talking and about what he felt like talking about. This would be a long ride home. After much consideration on whether to stay active duty or to return to National Guard status. My spouse has decided to stay active duty to benefit the family and to keep our medical benefits by him staying full time status. The phone rings, its some duty command personnel to update him on his next duty station. Hawaii. We should all be excited, and indeed the thought of Hawaii to three teenage girls is very exciting. But going to a secluded island with water all around, I can't help...
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...Critical Review of Family Violence Theories Jane A. Rodriguez # 660084749 SWK 450 Inside Family Violence Professor Dale Shank L.M.S.W October 1, 2012 Abstract The theories that I have chosen for my paper are: race, class, and gender theory, and social learning theory. The race, class and gender theory is based on statistics on race such as the example that the book gives about African American men dying prematurely than their white counter parts (Hattery and Smith 2007). The fact is that there are more blue collar workers who are African American, and involved in physical labor. There is also more poverty, and lack of health care which can lead to more stress with the African American population. My paper will discuss the pros and cons of this theory. The second theory the Social Learning theory is a perspective that states that people learn within a social context. It is facilitated through concepts such as modeling and observational learning. Critical Review of Family Violence Theories In her now classic Black Feminist Thought (2000), Patricia Hill Collins put forth a comprehensive approach for understanding the intersections of race with gender, sexuality, and class in the lives of black women and men. Hill Collins explained that “oppression cannot be reduced to fundamental type, and that oppressions work together in producing injustice” (2000:18). In using this intersectional framework, she critiqued previous scholarship in which on dimension of inequality...
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...the love they have found and wish them the best; however, in the backs of our minds we all think the same thing “I hope they make it”. However, over the years divorce has become more commonplace. Victims of this problem in marriage are the children which are left to become pawns on the chess boards of the legal system. The arguments over visitations, summer vacations and child support seem to take more of a toll on the little minds of the broken family than most parents realize. In the military divorce is more common than in civilian life. While the Army has taken steps to ensure that the spouse is protected. Those in the higher ranks have found ways around this. This is unfortunate because a woman who has devoted over ten years of marriage and sacrificed her life’s goals to follow her husband for God, Family and Country. At the end of the divorce she could literally be left with nothing and no means to support her children other than child support. After reading this some may argue that there are those who look to latch on to the military system for nothing more than a means to support their lives and receive a monthly check from some young joe who did not know better going into the marriage, I would agree. Currently, we are talking about those who have spent the better part of the marriage supporting the husband and due to circumstances beyond their control the marriage has fallen apart. An example of this scenario is currently happening out of Hawaii with a First Sergeant in 130th...
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...Affects of Multiple Deployments on Military Service Members and Families during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF): Time Period 2001-2012 Gina Pagano-Briglin, MSW University of the Incarnate Word 3 December 2012 I. Introduction Since September 11, 2001, there have been significant changes in the security measures of air travel, financial security, but one of the most significant changes is that of military operations. The United States began combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks officially referred to as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Since October 2001, about 1.9 million service members have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq (Asbury & Martin, 2011). OEF/OIF has many unique features with regard to the military forces being sent to fight oversees. The all-volunteer military has experienced multiple deployments to the combat areas, with an increased use of the National Guard and Reserve Components, higher numbers of deployed women and parents of young children, and increases in the number of service members surviving severe injuries and other side effects from combat (Shaw & Hector, 2010). Service members may be subjected to more than one deployment. Studies show that overall about 40% of current military service members have been deployed more than once, with over one quarter serving...
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...Everyday our families and freedoms are protected. Military service men and women throughout the country work and fight hard everyday to help protect and keep us out of harms way. Those men and women who give their life and their time to protect ours should have the chance to be honored for everything that they do for us. Military appreciation is a period for citizens as as well as other service members to display thanks and gratefulness for those who are fighting for our country, and as well as our freedoms. National military appreciation month is honored every May, and it signifies unity. In 1999 congress appointed national military appreciation month to motivate the citizens of the United States for the prosperity and sacrifice made...
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...limited to costs of military combat equipment, installations, salaries, retirement, and healthcare. Among those, the Active Duty, Retirees, and Military families’ healthcare is currently proposed to be cut saving the Federal Government approximately $1.8 billion by 2013. TRICARE, the health care program for active duty, retirees, and military families, was enacted May 1997. TRICARE replaced Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services “CHAMPUS” and was intended to increase quality of care for eligible beneficiaries. TRICARE has several different plans that make up the overall TRICARE health care program. TRICARE Prime the plan for active duty, their dependents and retired personnel. TRICARE Prime is a HMO style plan with no enrollment fee. Beneficiaries have a primary care provider, typically at a military installation’s medical facility; they see and attain referrals from for all specialty care. TRICARE Reserve Select is available to all military reservists. TRICARE Reserve Select has a monthly premium and allows beneficiaries to see civilian healthcare providers that are payable under TRICARE regulations. In May 2001 TIRCARE for life was added for retired military personnel and their families who prior to TFL lost their TRICARE benefits once enrolled in Medicare. TRICARE for Life pays the remaining patient responsibility of medical costs after Medicare coverage has been utilized. TRICARE Young Adult is available to unmarried military dependents ages 21-23...
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