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Married to the Military: A Survival Guide for Military Wives, Girlfriends, and Women in Uniform | 
 enlarge | Author: Meredith Leyva
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
List Price: $13.00
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 206919
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.120973
ASIN: B00150GIDW
Publication Date: June 30, 2003
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The Unofficial Scoop on Military LifeWhether you're dating, engaged, or married to an active military servicemember or reservist -- or you've just signed up yourself -- you may feel as if you've somehow married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books for him, there are almost no handy, user-friendly resources for you. Meredith Leyva, a military wife and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet's largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform, details everything you need to know to manage day-to-day issues and get on with the adventure of military life. From relocation to deployment, protocol to finances, and career to kids, Leyva offers time-tested advice about: • Keeping your love life together during deployments • Relocating yourself and your family around the world • Maintaining your own career when you're expected to move every three years • Understanding what pay and benefits you're entitled to -- and how to maximize them • Translating those odd acronyms and jargon Written by a seasoned military wife, this smart and savvy guide will help you take control at every point of your servicemember's career -- from filing marriage papers as newlyweds to choosing prenatal and child care when you start a family to figuring out his pension when he's ready to retire.
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 Great intro book if you don't know much about military life! October 12, 2008
Jolana M. Howard (Sacramento, Ca)
I work for USAA which has made me a tiny bit more familiar with military life and has opened my opinion of dating military guys. I've begun to date someone in the AF and am now considering going into that or my first choice, the Coast Guard. I LOVED THIS BOOK! I don't know how anyone of the other readers picked up a condescending tone because I don't see it; and, granted I know nothing yet, but the different branches of the military can't be THAT different, and I don't think this book was more representative of one branch or the other. Easy read, I was done in a few days, and have checked out her website and it looks really cool.
Best intro to being a military wife! August 12, 2008
R. Sanders (Atlanta, GA)
I bought this book and 2 others ("Homefront Club: The Hardheaded Woman's Guide to Raising a Military Family" and "Today's Military Wife: Meeting the Challenges of Service Life") and this is by the far the best one. It only contains relevant data, unlike the others which for the most part contain common sense. This book has a lot of useful information like websites and names of organizations to contact for different things. I would definitely recommend this book to any military wife or fiance.
 I'm a military girlfriend and it didn't help much. July 31, 2008
C. Wocoski (b.f.e.)
I'm a military girlfriend who's boyfriend is currently deployed to Iraq. This book looked interesting and seemed like a helpful tool for me while he is away. I started reading it. I got to about the fourth page and decided it wasn't the best for me. It's more for a military spouse with children. The jargon available was helpful, but I was extremely disappointed in the overall quality of information provided. If you're looking for a good read, Separated by Duty, United in Love is an absolutely phenomenal read. THAT is a good book with a lot of advice-written so we civilians can understand the life and duties of servicemembers and it's written by a woman who's been there and seen all of it as a veteran AND as a spouse.
Informative but outdated... July 28, 2008
J. Kirshenbaum
The military changes its rules and policies so rapidly that a lot of the information in this book is actually incorrect. It is also highly biased toward the website www.cinchouse.com and really should be called "Married to the Navy: A Survival Guide for Navy Newlyweds." If you're only currently dating a military man or you're in a different branch is isn't nearly as informative.
It contained a lot of general ground rules on how do keep a long distance (high-stress!) relationship working and it was useful in that way, but I'm of the opinion that there are probably better, more informative books in print than this one.
Useful if you know nothing about military life, but in general most of this information can be found on the internet.
Highly recommended book for women new to the military July 22, 2008
M. Wilson (Alcolu, SC)
Every woman new to the military should read this book. It covers all of the basics that you will need to know and it explains everything in plain english and not military jargon. This book should be given to every woman\wife entering the military!!!!!
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