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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Best Interest of the Child

I lost custody of my 9-year old son due to being a military spouse," wrote Chrystal Neely in a recent email. Full story.

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Military Spouse Employment Partnership

The Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) is the new DoD job program for military spouses. The DoD has already vetted 96 corporate partners like SAIC, Amazon, AT&T, 3M and George Mason U. Full story.

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Putting in the Laps

When you are so worried that you don’t know what to do next, when you are pacing, when the thought of the safety of your family member is with you ever minute, then you need to be deliberate every single day. Full story.

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Courage in the Garden of the Forking Path

This “garden” was first described in a 1941 short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In his story, Borges describes a learned man who is instructed to renounce his job in order to write a convex novel and construct an enormous labyrinth, "in which all men would lose their way.” Full story.

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Scrambler Defeated by The Eight-Sided Weekend

I used to claim that after deployment our family was like a merry-go-round. We had to slow the “ride” so that Brad could jump back on. Brad scoffs at that now. “This is no merry-go-round,” he snarled. “This is the Scrambler!” Full story.

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