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Navy Spouse's Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Laura Hall Stavridis
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1474467
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 206
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 1557508348
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.10973
EAN: 9781557508348
ASIN: 1557508348
Publication Date: February 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: A clean copy with no underlining, highlighting, or other markings whatsoever. Not an ex library copy. WE SHIP DAILY
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Product Description
Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children? This practical, one-of-a-kind guide fills the gap by helping families navigate the unique challenges of Navy life. Personal, friendly, and easy to use, this updated edition of the original 1997 guide is based on interviews with Navy spouses and a lifetime of lessons learned by the author as a Navy junior and wife of a career naval officer. Using an array of hard-to-find diagrams, charts, facts, and figures from a wide variety of sources, Laura Stavridis explains every aspect of Navy life in a frank, open discussion. The particulars of pay, living expenses, travel, children, emergencies, support groups, and social life, as well as medical, legal, and educational issues are described in an interesting, spouse-to-spouse format. Readers learn what to expect with regard to separation, homecomings, life overseas, shore duty, marital dynamics, and divorce. Also covered are such vital topics as military careers, spousal careers, reenlistment, retirement, and transition to civilian life. Useful phone numbers, checklists, glossary, and an up-to-date primer on the Navy's organization, ships and aircraft, and chain of command complete this unique reference. New to this second edition are discussions of e-mail communication, Internet resources, and spouse leadership roles within the Navy. For anyone starting out or contemplating life with a mate in the sea services this one-volume source of user-friendly information will prove invaluable.
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Navy Spouses Guide June 26, 2007
S. Brookman (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very informative and had my sailor saying he wanted to read it after I finished. This touches on everything a woman needs to know about her role as a Navy spouse. I will recomend it to every newly engaged gal I know.
 Navy Fiancee in training... January 15, 2007
Michelle Marie Ladbury (Anaheim, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am reading this book as a Navy Fiancee preparing for my new title of Navy Wife. We read this book together and found it full of information and helpful tips we never thought of. The reason I only gave it Four stars instead of Five is because we found that this book is a bit out of date and could stand to be revised. I would recommend this book for anyone new to the United States Navy.
FAN-TASTIC June 2, 2006
R. Dowd (Newport, RI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a huge Laura Stavridis fan! I am a Navy Spouse and have been for quite some time. This is a great book to give to all newly married military wives. Lots of useful information with some snips of her own life.
Very Informative August 11, 2005
SMac (Santa Barbara, Ca)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Being newly engaged to a salior has been very exciting. But, not growing up familiar to the military I found my self lacking knowledge about so much. This book really put my concerns at ease. It was very honest. It offered the positives and negatives of being a navy spouse. It also gave lots of helpful information about getting set up with Tricare and helpful spouse programs at various bases! After reading the book, I definately feel like I have a better understanding of being married to the military.
A very useful utilitarian guide August 15, 2003
Andrew S. Rogers (Seattle, Washington)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm not a Navy spouse, but I watched one close up during 18 years as a "Navy junior." I'm sure that a guide like this would have been very useful to her ... especially during those early years when Dad was overseas (the section beginning on page 147, "A Special Challenge: Dad at Sea When the Baby is Born" ... well, that baby was me).
On a lark, I compared this title to two somewhat similar earlier volumes, The Navy Wife by Anne Briscoe Pye and Nancy Shea (1942), and Welcome Aboard - A Service Manual for the Naval Officer's Wife by Florence Ridgely Johnson (1956). The differences between those two books and this one highlight not only the many changes in the Navy itself over five or six decades, but also reinforce why Laura Hall Stavridis' book is so valuable. Whereas the earlier books had a big focus on the social aspects of Navy life (both books were explicitly intended for the officer's wife) and "practical" tips like how to drive cross-country to visit your husband when he's visiting another port, this book is more thoroughly practical, with an emphasis on the many support systems now in place to help the spouse (male or female) of any Navy person (officer, NCO, or enlisted) deal with the many demands of this challenging position.
As with those other books, "Navy Spouse's Guide" includes a capsule description of the Navy and how it's organized, a glossary of important, and potentially confusing, terms, and other things the reader will be expected to know. At the same time, though, Stavridis knows that the "Navy spouse" is no longer wedded to the Service in the way she used to be, and that she (or he) most likely has a career and other time-demands of her own. That's why this book is so useful when confronting situations like preparing for a move overseas ... it's practically a checklist of things to do and people to contact that will help the Navy spouse, who's often left making many of these arrangements, navigate the situation as smoothly and easily as possible.
An awful lot has changed between 1942 or 1956 and today, and this book is a powerful reminder of that. But the historical interest is far less important than the day-to-day reality of the modern Navy spouse. Whether you're about to marry into the Navy, or have been following the Fleet for years, I think this is a book you'll find yourself returning to frequently.
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