Product Description

price change cost now $16.76

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184385 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

question
ok so can anyone just talk about the book instead of their life. Does this book help me out with all the army ways, abbreviations, rank, and all that good stuff I want to know as a fairly new army wife???? I just want to know how it all works and the basic knowledge of the army.

A Needed Guide
I thought the book was very helpful and was worthy of five stars. There were helpful hints, I don't think I will ever use and other information that I am sure I will use all the time.

*** Digress*****

This is a sight to review the book not to air miltary differences and discredit the ranks. I served in the military, my spouse was a senior enlisted who is now in OCS. I love the NCO (backbone of the Army), we would be no where if we didn't have enlisted (worker bees), and of course the officer (depending on the unit they are either "hooah" or "ate up") all and all we have the same mission as spouses'. I think the important thing is to remember that regardless of rank, there a snobs in either sector, there are whiners, in either sector. We as a community of military spouse need to just reveiw the book, forge ahead with insight and know how, and definately quit using public forums on book reviews as a way to demean each other or debate who is better. I am definately loyal to the enlisted and NCOM's, but with my spouse moving down another path I will have to do what I can has an officer wife to better his career, which inevitabley will better our life. This book is a useful tool and has a ton of information that anyone could use. This book is geared toward military traditions. It is not a book to teach you manners. Many of the reviewers I will guess, do have manners regardless of rank. The important part is "MILITARY MANNERS". There are different rules and protocals, regardless of rank. I am not a big AFTB fan, but it like the book is helpful to get your feet wet in military life. I really wish everyone would stop saying enlisted are bitter or officers' get treated better. I think it is about the different experiences everyone has, the different units, the way a person was prior to their rank. In Fort Bliss things are old and there appears to be a gap in the ranks. However, when we stationed in Fort Hood, TX the majority of the housing and playgrounds were nice and then some regardless of area were yucky. IT is just the spending issues different units have, etc. I hope we can all see the big picture and take the information and learn from it. A definite must have in any Army Wife's collection regardless of rank.

Good for any rank
We all have the opportunity to end up in situations where the protocol in the book will be useful, so read away whether you are the wife of a PVnothing or an Officers wife, we all have to start somewhere.

As to the people that posted junior enlisted wives can't be FRG Leaders, anyone who steps up to the plate to fill thevoid can be the FRG Leader, whats the point of complaining about how much your company FRG sucks,if you aren't prepared to roll up your sleeves and get in there to make it better. As a Junior Enlisted spouse, who is also the FRG LEader for a Company of 400+ Service Members and their families, I know it can be done, and a lot ofrespect can be gained form the chain of command for stepping up. There is no rank in our FRG we are all just military families.

Get involved ladies( and gentlemen) and stop complaining how bad you have it as enlisted spouse. You have the means to insopire your spouses to progress through the enlisted ranks, go to OCS or even to drop a warrant packet. It is the responsibility of the spouses NOW to nuture those that are coming behind them, and not to just fill the airwaves with negativity.

We DON"T have bad lives as Military spouses, we get to travel the world, live in good housing for a nominal charge, have access to a wealth of resources to help us through day to day living, and an awesome emans of support for during deployment.

If you can't hack the life you shiuldn't have married into the military