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 | 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 | May 28, 2010 | deployment, Iraq, leadership, Uncategorized
I’ve been passively working on my family tree for a decade or so. Around 2000, when my last grandmother became sick, I developed an obsession to find out more about my grandparents and their lives. Then I stopped because I was overcome by events. The folder went to my...
by Jessica Scott | Apr 8, 2010 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, leadership, Uncategorized
For that matter, just put them on for a while before you condemn our soldiers. Twitter is all abuzz today about the killing of two journalists by pilots in 2007. The incident is not new. We’ve known about the death of those Reuters reporters since it happened. It was...