by Jessica Scott | Feb 17, 2015 | company command, deployment, Fort Hood, leadership, Uncategorized
There’s been a lot of traffic the past few days about the proposed changes to military retirement. I’ve been sitting on this post for a while because, well, don’t blog/tweet while angry. Because the fundamental underly question that this commission is...
by Jessica Scott | Jun 18, 2012 | army officers, company command, Iraq, Rants, redeployment, Uncategorized
It seems there is always time for nostalgia when it comes to the Army of yesterday. The 80s Army looks back on the Vietnam Army, the 90s Army on the pre-stress card Army of the 80s. The OIF/OEF Army looking back on the 90s Army… Wait, what? Well before the last MRAP...
by Jessica Scott | May 28, 2012 | Iraq, Uncategorized
Worrell lived across the hall from us in Korea. We were all assigned to Suwon Airbase and Worrell worked for my husband in the warehouse. He was full of good idea fairies. He swore up and down that you could train a cat to use the toilet and well, since we had an...
by Jessica Scott | May 16, 2012 | deployment, Iraq, leadership, Rants, Uncategorized, women at war
Today marks the day that women are “officially” allowed in the maneuver battalions. I’m not going to re-hash the long trail of tears over how we got to this day: the short version is this is a good thing. But it’s not that big of a thing in the grand scheme of an army...
by Jessica Scott | Apr 5, 2012 | deployment, Iraq, leadership, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized
Last night my husband and I attended his battalion ball. You can check out the snark and sarcasm on twitter under the hashtag #tweetsfromtheball if you’re that interested but all in all, it was a really good time.
What’s always neat, though, for me as both a spouse...
by Jessica Scott | Jan 12, 2012 | army officers, Iraq, leadership, military mom, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war, working mom, Writing
I wrote a piece for the New York Times At War blog through Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. I hope you’ll swing over and check it out. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/author/jessica-scott/
