by Jessica Scott | Aug 6, 2011 | army officers, deployment, leadership, Predeployment, redeployment, Uncategorized
So if you’ve been paying attention lately, you may have seen that starting in 2012, deployments are going to shift to 9 months for Army units. Which is great right? That’s what we’ve been trying to get to for years since the wars started. Finally, the senior leaders...
by Jessica Scott | Dec 30, 2010 | army mom, army officers, company command, deployment, Fort Hood, Iraq, leadership, military mom, moms at war, Predeployment, redeployment, Uncategorized, working mom
New Years is a time for resolutions. Honestly, I’m not big on them. There’s just something futile in telling myself this will be the year that i do x. I make them, as many people probably do but then I promptly forget about them as the daily grind gets...
by Jessica Scott | Nov 11, 2010 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, leadership, redeployment, Uncategorized
I’m reaching out today on behalf of nonprofit, Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans). For the past 64 years the organization has been dedicated to helping and empowering those who have served and sacrificed – and their families — for our freedoms. I...
by Jessica Scott | Nov 7, 2010 | books, company command, mommy fail, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, writer's ruck sack, Writing
So my big news this week is that I finally turned my book Angels Before Me into my agent. It feels pretty good, not the least because it’s the first book I’ve written start to finish from scratch by starting with a synopsis. Technically, it started with a paragraph....
by Jessica Scott | May 9, 2010 | deployment, Iraq, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
Last year for Mothers Day, I was in Iraq. I remember it being a day of everyone saying “Happy Mother’s Day” when all I wanted to do was ignore the fact that I was even a mom. See, I’m an avoider. I avoid things that choke me up when I talk...
by Jessica Scott | Apr 25, 2010 | deployment, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
Somehow this weekend, I was roped into throwing a birthday party for Jerry. You know, as in Tom and Jerry. Tom wasn’t invited. Anyway, the mystery of how I ended up doing this was soon solved when my dearest husband came home with yellow cake mix and chocolate...