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Deployment is a Journey. What Will Yours be Like?

Deployment is an uncertain time filled with many fears. You may wonder how you will get through each day, how you will cope, and what you will do during this time. The fears and worries can be endless. But the journey doesn't have to be intimidating. You too, can learn to step forward with confidence and experience hope, joy, and encouragement in deployment.

Journey Through Deployment: Stepping Forward with Confidence During Military Separations is filled with:

Tips for preparing yourself and your family for deployment

Hope...

The widow of -American Sniper- Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legend

In early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband Chris were the happiest they ever had been. Their decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took Chris, a U.S. Navy SEAL, away from Taya and their two children for agonizingly long stretches while he put his life on the line in many major battles of the Iraq War. After...

After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time.

Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he d fought so hard to forge when his children were young particularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one s own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn t always...

Advice for military couples

"As soon as I arrived in Afghanistan, I began reading The 5 Love Languages(R). I had never read anything so simple yet so profound." -- Anonymous soldier

If you are in a military relationship, you know the strain of long deployments, lonely nights, and difficult transitions. For extraordinary challenges like these, couples need specific advice.

In this updated edition of The 5 Love Languages(R) Military Edition, relationship expert Dr. Gary Chapman teams up with Jocelyn Green, a former military wife, to...

This is a very unique story. I grew up in the foster care system in the state of Alabama until being adopted at age twelve. Eighteen years later my life came full circle as my wife and I officially became foster parents to three beautiful children. While they were in our care, I got deployed to Afghanistan with the air force, and my wife had our firstborn biological child while I was overseas! On January 29, 2016, twenty-two years after I got adopted out of foster care, my life came full circle again as my wife and I adopted those three children out of foster care! While deployed, I wrote...

This is a very unique story. I grew up in the foster care system in the state of Alabama until being adopted at age twelve. Eighteen years later my life came full circle as my wife and I officially became foster parents to three beautiful children. While they were in our care, I got deployed to Afghanistan with the air force, and my wife had our firstborn biological child while I was overseas! On January 29, 2016, twenty-two years after I got adopted out of foster care, my life came full circle again as my wife and I adopted those three children out of foster care! While deployed, I wrote...

FIVE WARS: A Soldier's Journey to Peace is the memoir of a 29-year Army veteran with two tours in Iraq and one each in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Johnson weaves stories over his lifetime -- from basketball player growing up in southern Illinois to Army Colonel and combat leader -- and finally, to husband and father who failed to see how war had changed him until it was almost too late.