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/
by Jessica Scott | Jun 24, 2010 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, leadership, Uncategorized, women at war
I’ve blogged a lot about my experience in Iraq with some of the folks I’ve worked with. I’ve also been honest with you about some of my failures, both as a leader and as an officer. But at the end of the day, my failures in those situations, my decisions to act or not...
by Jessica Scott | Apr 2, 2010 | books, deployment, Iraq, Uncategorized, women at war
If you’ve never had to really consider what you’d take on a desert island with you, you’ve never deployed. Last year while I was in Iraq, there was nothing I loved more than getting care packages full of books (except when they had books, coffee and...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 9, 2010 | deployment, Predeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
Things have been a little too serious here on the blog for the last couple of posts. I’ve been literally obsessing about the questions that PBS has raised in my brain and am starting to annoy myself. All work and no play make Jess way too serious a girl. So on that...
by Jessica Scott | Jan 20, 2010 | army officers, deployment, Fort Hood, moms at war, Predeployment, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
I can’t say this week has been easy. It hasn’t. But I’m starting to wonder just what y’all think is going on here. Monday night, I was in tears. I laid awake, bawling because of the strain of my husband moving to Ft Bragg without us and a myriad of other worries and...