Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment




Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment

Sandy Doell
Warrior Angel Press


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Book Description

Supporting the troops is about more than waving a flag or typing a yellow ribbon to a tree. What can we do to provide tender loving care to those who are doing their all to fight for our freedom?

Sandy Doell is a military mom. She, and thousands like her have been thrown into a role they didn't volunteer for. Those left behind have a big role to play in the War on Terror. They must fill the role of an absent father, pet owner, mortgage holder. They are also the first line of defense on boosting the morale of our troops overseas-- sending letters and care packages and most of all their love.

Sandy became an expert survivor. She lived through the fear, pain, frustration that takes over the life of family members when their loved ones have been deployed. To keep herself busy, she turned her energies toward finding ways to support her son from the home front. Sandy has taken all that she has experienced and learned and put it down in a book, Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment. If you are one of the thousands who have a family member in a war zone, or even if you don't but just want to help, Sandy's guidance will help you with vital information and tips. She discusses:
  • How foreign new services are often a better source for news of on-ground military operations than the American media and where to get news when you wake up in the middle of the night.
  • Why most war zone solders live in two states: heightened alertness or extreme boredom.
  • Suggestions for what to put in a care package: essentials to surviving in desert conditions such as Visine, saline nasal spray, throat lozenges, moleskins, and baby wipes.
  • How to choose and send supplies and fun stuff that will help improve the quality of life and morale of soldiers far from home.
  • Ways to help even when you don't know anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan: donating frequent flier miles, adopting a soldier, and contacting the chaplain of an infantry division.
  • How to support military families and friends
About the author:
Sandy Doell has been a writer and editor for 15 years. Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment is her first book. Go to www.momsfieldguide.com or www.whileourchildrenserve.com for more information.

Buy: Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment

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