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 20, 2010 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, leadership, Uncategorized
I haven’t gotten very far into Black Hearts by Jim Frederick. As in I’ve made it through the first section of the first chapter and have read the most horrifying description of what men who wore our uniform did to an Iraqi family. I don’t want to read this book...
by Jessica Scott | Jan 4, 2010 | Iraq, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
In David Finkle’s The Good Soldiers, Finkle describes a ‘bad news bucket”, an emotional coping cache that, once filled, puts a soldier near the breaking point. According to Finkle, who heard of the idea from Gen Petraus (I believe) soldiers need good news in order to...
by Jessica Scott | Dec 17, 2009 | army officers, deployment, Iraq, leadership, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
And when they shake my husband’s hand and say welcome home, I feel the lack of recognition.
by Jessica Scott | Dec 12, 2009 | Iraq, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
I’ve been home a few days now. I’ve been busy. Aside from the dead lizard in the bathroom, which I really enjoyed, I’ve been going non stop. Cleaning the house and getting things back to normal in my home is nearly a full time job. But I did take...