For Every Moment You're Away

Hello everyone,

I'm asking a question here on behalf of my boyfriend. He's in Iraq, and looking to take classes online. Computer access isn't a problem, but he doesn't know where to look for courses. Do any of you know where he could sign up for these classes? Just a starting point would be really useful.

Thanks. :)


Edited to add, 3/02/09: Thank you everyone. He's doing online classes at RIT, and starting in a week or so. I figured I'd add this since people keep giving me more advice! It's very much appreciated, thank you again. Hopefully someone else will be able to use this post in the future too.

My mother called me trashy a few hours ago.
And I haven't stopped thinking about it..

I was telling her about someone else who had called me that because my SO is military.
It really bothers me because her other two children are military and she is talking about the people that go and defend her country. (*edit in: she said that all military have a certain trashiness, I couldnt disagree more.)
Ever since I became a military girlfriend all the down talk on the military had disturbed me even more than it use to.
I love him either way, but people are that unsupportive?

I guess my point is to ask what you would do, or even if you'd had that experience. That something that happens often?

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Ok so this is about my best friend.

I just got told my best friend whos in my husbands unit volunteered to go to iraq to replace some soliders lost over there. He currently deployed to africa so i dont know how it would work anyways but im pissed. I cant beleive he volunnteered but on the other hand I am so  proud of him.

Am I dumb or what?

My man is leaving for Iraq sometime soon, and I've put in a time-off request at my work and they turned it down! (Don't worry, they don't know the date, cause even I don't! I just have a time line thing of when he would be leaving.)

But, a girlfriend of mine says that there is some sort of law that protects me and gives me, as she put it, the right to take that time off.

Is this true? If so, what is it called?

Because from day one of my job, (which wasn't too terribly long ago...) I told them that if the time ever came, I would need a week off for his deployment, so that I could put myself back together again. And they agreed. And now they are going back on what they said, which is a slap in the face to me.

I'm planning on talking to my boss again, and if she stands her ground on this, then I'm gonna quit, and hopefully be able to throw this into her lap. (The possible law.)

So, any help on if there is such a thing would rock.
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For those of you who have moved overseas - Have any of you arrived at your new location without your husband being there? I am moving to Japan in two months and I will now be getting there before my husband. I'm concerned about getting there before him. I wont have a phone or car/japanese license, and those two things make me uncomfortable on its own. I will have a sponser but its not the same as going through all of this with my husband.
Any advice or suggestions would be great.

Hi guys! Remember me? I got permission from super fabulous inmyheadx2 to do a weekly Army Wives discussion post. It's Tuesday, but I figured since we're three episodes in, a couple of days late couldn't hurt, right? Besides, I'm itching to talk about it.

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Name: Becca
Age: 18

I don't believe this falls under the category of spamming, if it does, you have my sincerest apologies because that is definitely not my intention.

I was looking over Soldiers' Angels webpage and noticed their newest project: Blankets of Belief. I know many of you already have a lot on your plate or are stretched thin financially, and I definitely don't want to pressure you to get involved with something that is going to add stress to your life. We all know you've got enough of that as it is! However, if you've got the time and resources, they're asking if each person would consider making one blanket. A quilt, or a fleece, just so long as it's an Americana themed blanket. They even have instructions for a "no-sew" blanket, if sewing just isn't your thing. Guidelines can be found here. The goal is 180,000 by the holidays to let our guys (and girls!) know that we appreciate them, support them and believe in them. They also have a similar Blankets of Hope project running for our wounded troops. If you have questions, they can be addressed by emailing blanketsofbelief AT gmail DOT com. I'll be happy to answer whatever I can, but they are obviously much more well-informed.

Like I said before, I know you're already doing so much, and I can't tell you girls how much I appreciate what each of you are sacrificing for the cause of our country, but if this is something you'd like to do, I just wanted to make you aware of it.

Clo

This is kind of a to-the-mods post, but I guess I'm also asking everyone else.

Do you guys watch Army Wives? Because I was thinking, wouldn't it be neat to have an Every Sunday post where we can discuss the most recent episode? (I would have no problem being in charge of that, haha!)

Mods, do you think that would fly? If not, please feel free to delete (or tell me to)!