Helloooo to all my wonderful readers! I know it seems like I have been MIA and kinda slacking and you would be right *smile*.Ok ok …actually I have just been extremely busy outside of the house as well as working on some really great things for Army Wife 101 and for you my loyal readers. As for updates their are quite a few: * First Congratulation to our winners of “The 50th Follower Visa GC Contest” and the … Read entire article »

As a military spouse with a husband currently on a second tour to Iraq, I am a strong advocate and committed to helping our returning service members seek help for issues that may arise due to the emotional toll being in a combat zone can take on one. With that said I was honored to be contacted to help spread the word about “Vets Prevail” a six week ,program which service members can access from the … Read entire article »

Greetings All! As usual, I’m late to the party lol. I had an amazing summer visiting friends and family. Now that the kids are back in school, things are finally getting back to “normal”. My name is Sherrill. I am a twenty-eight year old Army wife and mother of two. We are currently stationed at Hunter Army Airfield here in Savannah, GA. I can’t say enough about this place. It is beyond awesome. My … Read entire article »

If your spouse has ever been deployed, then I’m sure you have laid in bed crying yourself into a full blown snot bubble at some point or another because you were just having one of those miserable days where you wish you had someone to talk to and no one was around. I know I had many of those days and it didn’t mean I wasn’t strong and couldn’t handle a deployment, it just meant that I was having a bad day and we are entitled to those every so often. Thanks to Military One Source we (spouses) can talk to someone whenever we need to no matter the time or day from the comfort of our phone. You can even talk to a counselor via a Skype session. If you need to … Read entire article »

Ok one of my daily visited sites is Milspouse . While browsing I saw that Dr Oz (who is best known as being the Dr who appears frequently on Oprah) is looking for a military spouse who has lost a great deal of weight while their spouse was deployed and would like to have he/she appear on his show. If your interested in submitting your story you can visit here for details. Hurry September 5th is the deadline. … Read entire article »

This absolutely scares me and pisses me off at the same time. I won’t bore you with an detailed explanation here is the article : Social Networking Sites. It scares me because I wonder what military branch is next and what else will be banned? That simple. Edited to Clarify: I am well aware that the blocking of the Social Networks is only on DOD computers. The reason it still bothered me is because even overseas not every … Read entire article »

So I won’t bore you with the news details if you want to read it click Army IncreasesBefore I go any further please remember that what makes and will continue to make Army Wife 101 unique is that I write this stuff the way I would want to read it. I can’t stand long rambles lol , long articles and overly drawn out complicated sentences. My feelings on the 22k Increase are simple: 1. I feel like it will take the strain off the current soldiers currently serving and also maybe increase the amount of time the soldier is able to be home in between deployments. I mean geeze in my case we just hit the one year mark and our next deployment is already looming . 2. I think this increase will be … Read entire article »

This article Putting The Commissary To The Test got me to thinking : So lately I’ve been complaining alot about the rising cost at the commissary. It doesn’t help that where stationed here in Hawaii and food is just expensive in general. So while I am now paying close to $3.00 just to get a good loaf of bread it beats paying $5 or $6 at the local grocery stores outside post. I know when we were stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah GA, their were certain key items I brought weekly for my kids such as Poptarts and Fruitsnacks. I would absolutely get a kick out of how one week poptarts were a $1.50 a box and the next week they were $2.01 a box. The same thing would happen … Read entire article »