Military Deployment Archive

How to Talk to Your Children After Deployment

Posted by Corina Notyce, DCoE Strategic Communications This blog post was written by Dr. Pam Murphy, a child psychologist at theNational Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), a Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury center. Before the deployment you talked with your kids about what they thought or were worried about regarding the upcoming deployment. During the deployment you had a plan and mad... more

How Fear Works to Keep You Safe

Military.com

Did I really lock the doors? Is that a noise in the garage? I wish my creepy neighbor would just move away. The minute a deployment starts, military spouses, partners and Milsos are suddenly aware of the realities of being “home alone.” Especially if they have kids. Due to my own military deployments and my current career in private security, I recognize these concerns. I want to arm you with five principles that will increase your safety and... more

Who Needs To See Combat Video?

Jacey Eckhart

You take pictures when you want to hold onto a moment. The first day of school. That silly icing on someone's nose. The sweet face of your newborn baby. But you take video when you want to capture time itself. This is Grandma dancing the Harlem Shake. Here is your first lay up. This is what you look like scrambling away from the Taliban and getting your weapon shot out of your hands. That last kind of "time capture" is causing a bit of a ruc... more

Canceled Deployments Are a Mistake

Jacey Eckhart

Are you and I going to be there to save the Harrys? Ever since the deployment of the carrier Harry S. Truman was canceled last week, I keep running that scene in my head from It's a Wonderful Life. George Bailey is standing in front of his brother’s grave exclaiming, “Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport!” “Every man on that transport died,” Clarence the Angel re... more

Deployment: Heart Catch Up With My Head

Jacey Eckhart

I do not have time for this. I can count on my own two hands the number of days I have left with my husband at home before deployment. I do not have time for complicated emotions. I do not have time for sulks. I cannot spend our last scraps of time together slamming doors and thunking cabinets and stomping around mightily. So of course last weekend I was slamming doors and thunking cabinets and stomping around mightily. Our 10-year-old note... more