About Jacey Eckhart

As an Air Force brat, Jacey Eckhart grew up swearing she would never enter the military or marry anyone who did. Of course, she married the first Navy guy she ever met. Eighteen years later, she and her husband Brad have moved 13 times. Tackled five deployments. Raised three kids. And Jacey has written over 400 columns that encourage, empower and entertain military families everywhere.

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Why Military Spouses Don’t Work at the White House

I really want Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden to think about why they haven’t employed a military spouse yet. It isn’t that spouses aren’t qualified. It isn’t that we spouses aren’t present in Washington, DC. So why aren’t we working at the White House? One word, Mrs. Obama: Connectivity. Full story.

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Hard Place Decision Making

When any of us—military or civilian--must make a decision between a rock and a hard place, the fallout is pulverizing. Either choice is bound to be wrong. Full story.

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What is Coming Home Worth?

I love this show because my husband is deployed. The joy of Homecoming involves the real pain of months spent profoundly apart. Full story.

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Do we Really Need Military Support Groups for Male Spouses?

"War has a gender-and it is male," wrote author and essayist Virginia Woolf in 1938. Eh, I don't think that is so true today. I think Woolf might have been astounded that the husbands of those working women are the ones we now perceive as being in need of support. Full story.

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Are You a Dorothy?

Sometimes I think I ought to be wearing a blue gingham dress and sparkly red shoes. Between Michelle Obama's appearance on Oprah and the President's new initiative on military families, I feel like the Wizard has been dragged from behind the curtain and forced to pull the good stuff out of his bag. Full story.

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