| The Army Wife Handbook: A Complete Social Guide |  | Author: Ann Crossley
Publisher: Abi Pr
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Pages: 432
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ISBN: 0962622826
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.34
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Publication Date: June 18, 2007
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question September 27, 2007
Lee Huskisson (fort riley, ks)
ok so can anyone just talk about the book instead of their life. Does this book help me out with all the army ways, abbreviations, rank, and all that good stuff I want to know as a fairly new army wife???? I just want to know how it all works and the basic knowledge of the army.
 A Needed Guide October 17, 2006
KAAWALOA KEKAUOHA TAYLOR (Fort Bliss, TX USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought the book was very helpful and was worthy of five stars. There were helpful hints, I don't think I will ever use and other information that I am sure I will use all the time.
*** Digress*****
This is a sight to review the book not to air miltary differences and discredit the ranks. I served in the military, my spouse was a senior enlisted who is now in OCS. I love the NCO (backbone of the Army), we would be no where if we didn't have enlisted (worker bees), and of course the officer (depending on the unit they are either "hooah" or "ate up") all and all we have the same mission as spouses'. I think the important thing is to remember that regardless of rank, there a snobs in either sector, there are whiners, in either sector. We as a community of military spouse need to just reveiw the book, forge ahead with insight and know how, and definately quit using public forums on book reviews as a way to demean each other or debate who is better. I am definately loyal to the enlisted and NCOM's, but with my spouse moving down another path I will have to do what I can has an officer wife to better his career, which inevitabley will better our life. This book is a useful tool and has a ton of information that anyone could use. This book is geared toward military traditions. It is not a book to teach you manners. Many of the reviewers I will guess, do have manners regardless of rank. The important part is "MILITARY MANNERS". There are different rules and protocals, regardless of rank. I am not a big AFTB fan, but it like the book is helpful to get your feet wet in military life. I really wish everyone would stop saying enlisted are bitter or officers' get treated better. I think it is about the different experiences everyone has, the different units, the way a person was prior to their rank. In Fort Bliss things are old and there appears to be a gap in the ranks. However, when we stationed in Fort Hood, TX the majority of the housing and playgrounds were nice and then some regardless of area were yucky. IT is just the spending issues different units have, etc. I hope we can all see the big picture and take the information and learn from it. A definite must have in any Army Wife's collection regardless of rank.
Good for any rank June 29, 2006
Hunters FRG Leader (Ft Stewart, GA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
We all have the opportunity to end up in situations where the protocol in the book will be useful, so read away whether you are the wife of a PVnothing or an Officers wife, we all have to start somewhere.
As to the people that posted junior enlisted wives can't be FRG Leaders, anyone who steps up to the plate to fill thevoid can be the FRG Leader, whats the point of complaining about how much your company FRG sucks,if you aren't prepared to roll up your sleeves and get in there to make it better. As a Junior Enlisted spouse, who is also the FRG LEader for a Company of 400+ Service Members and their families, I know it can be done, and a lot ofrespect can be gained form the chain of command for stepping up. There is no rank in our FRG we are all just military families.
Get involved ladies( and gentlemen) and stop complaining how bad you have it as enlisted spouse. You have the means to insopire your spouses to progress through the enlisted ranks, go to OCS or even to drop a warrant packet. It is the responsibility of the spouses NOW to nuture those that are coming behind them, and not to just fill the airwaves with negativity.
We DON"T have bad lives as Military spouses, we get to travel the world, live in good housing for a nominal charge, have access to a wealth of resources to help us through day to day living, and an awesome emans of support for during deployment.
If you can't hack the life you shiuldn't have married into the military
A Review & A Response March 5, 2006
Happy He's Out!!!! (USA)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
The review: My husband was in the Arny for four years, and during that time I did read this book. The book itself is good in a way that most military etiquette books are. It encourages Army wives to accept, understand and embrace the military lifestyle without question. Books of this nature are especially good for women whose husbands plan to make a career out of the military. In other words, if the Army is going to be your bread and butter, learn to play the game now. This book can help you to do that.
The response: I've noticed a few reviews which go off into a tangent and give the enlisted wives out there a bit of a lecture for having some negative feelings. My husband was enlisted, and I will say here and now that the bitterness displayed here is justified in many ways.
When my husband entered the Army, I never thought that I would see some of the discepancies that I did. We're not talking about the enlisted quarters having bare floors while the officers' housing has wall-to-wall. We're talking abut the officers' kids having state of the art playgrounds while the enlisted children play on structures with nails sticking out them. We're talking about the officers having a nice club while the enlisted/NCOs have no club at all. We're talking about the OWC members who pull strings through their husbands to make sure that the EWC never outshines them.We're talking about officers' wives getting the royal treatment after giving birth while the enlisted wives are put four to a room where they share one bathroom. I could go on, but I think the message is clear.And before anyone spouts off that enlisted soldiers and their families are treated according, the only things officers and their families are entitled to is higher pay and BAH.Nothing else!
To the officers' wives who criticize enlisted wives for being angry, consider why they feel that way instead of chalking it up to them being jealous. Look at the way you and your sister wives treat them. Look at the way the system treats them. Try going to the clinic or the club or the chapel on the arm of a enlisted man and see how fast your world changes.
I tried to befriend officers' wives all during my husbands enlistemtn and all I got was the cursory pat on the shoulder and the condescending, "Oh, we'll get together soon." Um, yeah,right.And the check is in the mail.
New and PROUD Spouse February 6, 2006
S. L. Hayes (Lost on Post)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I must say that this list of reviews reads more like a soap than anything else. I ordered my copy of this book a week ago, and although I have not received it yet, I can tell you that I KNOW that I will love it!!
Have any of you complaining enlisted wives stopped long enough to realize that nearly everyone starts at the bottom?? You say that no one is there to see how your table is set and who cares anyway....so set the table and make the move my young friend. My husband deployed less than 5 months after we married and I made this PCS without him here to help. I have no idea what I am doing with any of it....much less the officer's wife part, but I am going to learn. We he told me that we were going to be living in officer's quarters I wondered what that meant (we lived off Post until I made this move THIS WEEK). I drove by the enlisted quarters and yearned to stop and meet some of the wives and hear their stories.
So, as for the comment that the officer's wives don't care about you....well, I wore jeans and a sweat shirt to the PX and no one went out of their way to talk to me (and I was obviously LOST)....officer or enlisted wife.
Learn the protocol. Suck it up!!! Take your hard times and enjoy the closeness of your "community" of sisters. Trust me, being told that I am NOT to socialize with someone because of their husband's "rank" is not my idea of the perfect world, but the rules are the rules.
The next time you see someone "LOST" in the PX are you, the enlisted wife, going to go up to her and offer assistance or are you going to just walk by sulking because you live in a smaller house???
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