What's cooler than being featured on an Instagram feed with 4.5 million followers? Not much.
What's cooler than being featured on an Instagram feed with 4.5 million followers? Not much.
A series of military spouses and their stories were highlighted over the last week on First Lady Michelle Obama's instagram account as part of the Joining Forces celebration.
Joining Forces, a White House push to support veterans and military families, hit its fifth anniversary last week. The White House used the opportunity to announce new pledges from major companies, including Amazon.com, to hire veterans and military spouses. Officials also attended a USO 75th anniversary birthday party at Joint Base Andrews with a ton of military members and families.
And the First Lady took the opportunity to highlight the stories of regular old military spouses (or, rather, as regular as military spouses ever are) on her Instagram feed, which has over 4.5 million followers.
Among those highlighted were two friends to SpouseBuzz, Adrianna Domingos-Lupher, who runs NextGen MilSpouse, and Amanda Crowe, who directs the U.S. Chamber foundation's In Gear Career and authors Military.com's "Dear Career" bi-monthly column.
Here's what was shared on them:
A photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on May 5, 2016 at 1:02pm PDT
A photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on May 7, 2016 at 11:59am PDT
Thank you to the White House for featuring these two special military spouses, as well as the stories of several other veterans, spouses, caregivers and military kids. We don't always agree with everything the White House does, but we always like publicity for military spouses when they are presented as the strong, courageous and amazing people we know them to be.