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Stone Bonnie |
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Titolo |
Beating the G.I. Blues [[electronic resource] ] : The Military Spouse's Guide to Living Well with Uncle Sam |
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History Publishing Company, LLC, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-31123-2 |
9786613311238 |
1-933909-11-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Families of military personnel -- United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Basic Training for Spouses""; ""Chapter 1: First Things First""; ""Chapter 2: Military Manners""; ""Chapter 3: Housing""; ""Chapter 4: Cleaning Out of Housing""; ""Chapter 5: Tips on Moving with the Military""; ""Part 2: Advanced Training: When Being Military Becomes Reality""; ""Chapter 6: Military Medicine""; ""Chapter 7: Managing Finances""; ""Chapter 8: Why They Call Them “Brats�""; ""Chapter 9: Duffle Bag Jobs""; ""Part 3: When Hard Times Come""; ""Chapter 10: Answering Legal Questions"" |
""Chapter 11: Combating Loneliness""""Chapter 12: Abusive Spouses""; ""Chapter 13: Soldiering on When the Unthinkable Happens""; ""Part 4: Military Life Can Be Wonderful!""; ""Chapter 14: Seeing the World with Uncle Sam""; ""Chapter 15: Life After the Military""; ""Appendix""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book pulls no punches. It covers the negatives in this time of multiple wars and details what the enlisted spouse needs to know and how to get it in the vast superstructure of the American military. Seemingly impersonal, but on the personal level not always so, the military, a subset of the Federal Government, is a myriad of departments and personnel with designations and descriptions not always evident to the spouse coping with a host of sudden concerns. Step by step the basics of government moves, housing, legal matters, |
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managing money, military medicine, child care, discounted travel, |
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