The Mocha Manual to Military Life: A Savvy Guide for Wives, Girlfriends, and Female Service Members

by Kimberly Seals-Allers, Pamela M. McBride

Overview

From Kimberly Seals-Allers, the creator of the Mocha Manual™ series, and coauthor Pamela McBride, a seasoned military wife, comes the ultimate guide to life, love, and logistics for military spouses, girlfriends, and female service members. Whether you're just beginning to date a military man and pondering the ins and outs of a long-distance relationship as he moves from base to base or you're a newly wed military wife, The Mocha Manual to Military Life has a host of tips for optimizing your romance. Beyond matters of the heart, the book also offers advice on everything from how to thrive during deployment to how to master military protocol to how to best build friendships among military wives. Accessible and witty, The Mocha Manual to Military Life is a fresh and timely must-read for all women—but particularly African American and Latina women—affected by military service. Written in the same informative tone as the other books in the Mocha Manual™ series, with sidebars and testimony from women who have experience navigating military life, this book is sure to be essential reading for all women engaged in some form or fashion with the military.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061690488
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Series:	Mocha Manuals
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.36(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Kimberly Seals-Allers is the author of The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy and The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit. An award-winning journalist, she has been a writer at Fortune and a senior editor at Essence, among other publications. She resides on Long Island, New York.

Pamela McBride has served military families personally and professionally for twenty years. She serves as a Well-Being Program Specialist for the Department of the Army and is a freelance writer for www.homefrontonline.com. She is the coauthor of Work It, Girl! The Black Woman's Guide to Professional Success, and has been a frequent contributor to various magazines, including Essence and Black Collegian, as well as Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Times supplements. She lives south of Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Yes, You Can! Living Your Best Military Life 1

Chapter 1 Before You Say "I Do": Everything You Need to Know About Dating on Marrying a Military Man 5

Chapter 2 Surviving the First Year: Your Induction into the MS World 35

Chapter 3 When Honey Is Away: Dealing with Separation and Deployment 65

Chapter 4 Social Studies: A Lesson in Protocol, Pomp and Circumstance, and the Social Scene 113

Chapter 5 Here We go Again! Mastering the Military Move 137

Chapter 6 Working It! Career and Education Planning for the Military Spouse 163

Chapter 7 Military Money Matters: Don't Let Your Money Get Funny 193

Chapter 8 Parenting: Raising Children in the Military Lifestyle 219

Chapter 9 Double Duty: Life as a Dual-Military-Career Couple 251

Chapter 10 Relationship Rescue: How to Keep Your Marriage and Friendships Strong 277

Chapter 11 Dealing with the Unthinkable: Domestic Violence, Injury, and Loss 299

Note from The Authors 335

Digging into The Alphabet Soup 337

Resources 345

Editorial Reviews

Do you know an Army wife, or someone who is dating a person in the military? Do they need advice on how to manage a long-distance relationship? This handbook may help. The authors cover a range of topics, from how to cope during deployment to mastering military protocol.” — New York Times.com Style Guide

From the Publisher

Do you know an Army wife, or someone who is dating a person in the military? Do they need advice on how to manage a long-distance relationship? This handbook may help. The authors cover a range of topics, from how to cope during deployment to mastering military protocol.

New York Times.com Style Guide