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...
A blog from Army&You’s autumn 2023 edition by Stacey Heartford.
I’ve known my husband for 21 years and we must have spent ten of those apart. Like so many military marriages, he comes and he goes; pre-de...
A blog from Army&You’s summer 2023 edition by Karen.
As part of the training package for my husband’s next role as a Defence Attaché, I was given the opportunity to attend a course which included defensi...
A blog from Army&You’s summer 2023 edition by Jennifer Jones @heartmindandsoldieryoga
I’m a military wife to William, and dog mama to Wilma (our shy border collie). I became part of the military family i...
A blog from Army&You’s summer 2023 edition by Amy Burkill
As an army spouse I have had to, like many others, continually adjust to and make choices about how I navigate this distinctive way of life, that...