by Jessica Scott | Jul 20, 2011 | army officers, company command, deployment, Fort Hood, leadership, Uncategorized, women at war
I’m struggling tonight. I’m struggling to take almost 4 years as an officer and 12 years as a NCO and merge the two. My life in the army is divided into 3 parts: Junior enlisted Jess (less than 2 years), Sergeant Jess (over 10) and Officer Jess. I would argue that...
by Jessica Scott | Jul 9, 2011 | books, deployment, publishing, RWA Nationals, social networking, Uncategorized, women at war, writer's ruck sack, Writing
So I was holding off on blogging any more until after Sherry’s backlist giveaway was complete. So this was the year of Twitter. Everywhere I turned, people were talking to me and the introduction went something like this: “I’m so and so, from twitter.” And yes, names...
by Jessica Scott | May 30, 2011 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, Uncategorized, women at war
When I was in Iraq, it finally hit me the true meaning of Memorial Day. It shouldn’t have taken me thirteen years in service to get it, but for whatever reason, it did. Since that Memorial Day, when the chow hall of FOB Marez was decorated with the names of the fallen...
by Jessica Scott | May 5, 2011 | army officers, company command, deployment, Fort Hood, Iraq, leadership, Uncategorized
So two days ago, I received word that a good friend of mine died last year in Iraq. The news hit me square in the heart and I was instantly just wrecked. I emailed back and forth with a mutual friend because he was the one who told me. I’m not sure who took it worse....
by Jessica Scott | Apr 9, 2011 | army officers, company command, deployment, leadership, Rants, Uncategorized
This post will not blast any elected officials. This post will not talk about Congress or any of my own political opinions. Instead, I’m going to talk about how the potential shutdown that was narrowly averted last night would have impacted my soldiers. As a company...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 7, 2011 | army mom, deployment, military mom, mommy fail, moms at war, Uncategorized, working mom
The weekend started for me at 0200 Saturday morning as I hopped in a vehicle and headed to the Tuscon Airport for my flight back to Fort Hood. After landing in Dallas, I get a phone call from my mom, who’d been watching the girls for me while I had my TDY trip....