A blog from Army&You’s summer 2024 edition by Sam Darlington.
Moving house is famously stressful, but add in a military relocation, and you’ve got a summer shambles.
I remember those summers filled with...
A blog from Army&You’s spring 2024 edition by Lyndsay Spencer
I’m a military wife, mum to three wonderful service children and undertaking a part-time PhD at the University of Surrey. The focus of my PhD...
A blog from Army&You’s spring 2024 edition by Ellen Owusu
Two and a half years ago, when my husband shared with me the news of his new posting to Belgium, I was beside myself with conflicting emotions. O...
A blog from Army&You’s spring 2024 edition by Rachel Lynch
I’ve always dreamed of becoming a published author, but I didn’t see it as something I could do as a job until we were posted to Argentina, when...
A blog from Army&You’s winter 2023/24 edition by Louise McIntyre
In 2013, my husband Archie was getting ready to leave the army and retrain as a gas engineer, while I worked as a teacher. However, there ...
A blog from Army&You’s winter 2023/24 edition by Michelle Morgan
I’m the Army Welfare Service Community Development Worker (CDW) in Woodbridge, Suffolk. I’ve been here for nine years and did the same rol...
A blog from Army&You’s winter 2023/24 edition by Julia Barr
Military life can be challenging when it comes to meaningful spousal employment – military bases aren’t always in areas with easy connections t...
A blog from Army&You’s winter 2023/24 edition by Roushana Cherryholme
Whilst posted in Brunei my two eldest sons completed their GCSEs, gaining excellent results. One wanted to join the RAF like his frie...
A blog from Army&You’s autumn 2023 edition by Liz Edmunds
When I became an army spouse – and step-mum to two young children – more than 15 years ago, my career in child protection and family court work g...
A blog from Army&You’s autumn 2023 edition by Liz Davies.
It seems to me that army spouses broadly fall into one of four employment categories: the doctors, teachers and physios who move their physical r...