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Becki's Wild Navy Wife World This is my place to share the lessons I have learned as a Navy spouse. Navy Life Lessons, Parenting lessons, Menu and budgeting ideas. The list goes on. My blog is where I express the information that I have picked up in my time as a Navy spouse and Spouse Mentor. The challenges of raising 4 kids around the military,going to school, running a home business are just some of the other topics that I cover. This life has afforded me the ability to laugh at myself and the things that I deal with from day to day. There are so many things that military families face that civilian families have a hard time understanding. I hope that my blog helps to teach those who are not around the military a little bit about what it is to deal with the day to day things that Military spouses contend with. Family thousands of miles away, friends that move away every few years, what it is to PCS or better yet PCS across the country with 4 kids and a dog. Entitlements, POA's, the list can go on and on. I try to give the most up to date information on the issues that we face.
A chronicle of modern warfare from a former Marine infantry sergeant. Hit-Haditha Corridor, al-Anbar Province, Iraq 2004-2005. Ben Christensen is a writer who re-enlisted into his old Marine reserve unit when he thought they would be deploying to Iraq. Even though he had his honorable discharge and a comfortable career as a high school English teacher, and a wife and two sons with another son on the way, he re-enlisted in February 2004 and received deployment orders in April. Christensen is named after his father's young uncle, Benjamin Christensen, who was killed in northern Italy 20 days before the end of World War II, where he served as an infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division, 86th Infantry, India Company third platoon. As a Marine sergeant, Christensen went off adventuring, thinking he would not see any action, but wound up as the senior fireteam leader and breacher for second platoon, Charlie Company, Task Force 1-23, 7th Regimental Combat Team, 1st MARDIV. He saw some moderate fighting and participated in several successful raids on local Sunni insurgent leaders in and around Hit and Haditha.
As a military spouse, life can be challenging: constantly moving and being uprooted from family and newly made friends, dealing with deployments and raising children alone, and of course, the unpredictability of the military in general. On top of all this, add in the fact that military pay doesn't always stretch very far when you have children. That's where my blog comes in.
As an Army wife with two small children, I know what it's like to have to stretch basic pay as far as possible to cover all the bills, that's why I created A-B-C Frugality. My blog will show you how to live a fabulously frugal life without having to "go without" any of the comforts you are used to. You'll learn how to cut your grocery bill in half and save on food, diapers, clothing, household goods and more. I'll teach you my secrets for feeding our family of 4 for less than $20 a week (including diapers). I'll also teach you how to cut back on your entertainment expenses while going out more than you ever did before, cut back on your gas and car expenses while traveling more than ever, and cut back on your utilities in a few simple steps.
Visit my blog today for coupons, freebies, deals, and tips to live your most frugal and fabulous life ever!
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