I Found The Ultimate Guide to Each Military Post, Written by Actual Military Families
A few weeks ago I happened upon my favorite resource for military families that I have found yet, the ultimate guide to each military post.
SoldiersWifeCrazyLife.com offers individual summaries of key information on almost every military post. Each article is full of the relevant information you are actually looking for about your upcoming duty station. Plus, each one is written by a real military family who has lived there in recent years. What a fantastic source! Where has this been all my life?
Now this is not maps and details about the base itself. None of this is a security risk.
This is practical what life is like in the area type stuff. This guide answers the questions you have about living in the areas.
Most military websites that promise information about a military base offer no more than office phone numbers and a bunch of military jargon that does not even make much sense to me. It is often about a bunch of services I never even use.
What I want to know is basic:
where to live, are on post schools decent, where to go to the doctor, and where is this place exactly. I want to hear some opinions and advice from some real military wives like me.
On that note, if you find that your current duty station is not on the list, you can email Julie to submit your own essay about that post.
Make sure you include all the details you would want to know as an arriving family!
For me, the constant moving has been the greatest challenge of being a military spouse. Every nine to thirty-six months, we pull up all our roots (shallow as they may be) and thrust ourselves upon a new community.
We need all the useful information we can get about each new place.
Our family is leaving Aberdeen Proving Ground this year, so I submitted an article about everything you need to know about APG. I included information about schools, housing, healthcare, weather, what we are close to here, and more. Click here to read more of my article on APG.
I told Julie that next time I will probably write one about Fort Belvoir. We have spent a good amount of time there too.
I love how the internet gives military wives a much needed support resource like this. Back when we first joined there was little to find on the internet about moving, and we had to rely on MapQuest because there was no GPS. Ha!! Technology has definitely improved military wife life.
Now I hope you’ll go check out my article! Or click here to see the entire list.
April, what an awesome resource for military families! My husband just retired after 22 years of service and I somehow got through it all at one duty station! I have been grateful not to have to move every few years but I do remember when we first moved to Fort Drum when my kids were very young…I cried every day for a year trying to find my way through all the military stuff and living in a new place. There wasn’t much help online 10 years ago and I floundered all the way through until retirement! I love that you are sharing such helpful information for a community that definitely can benefit from it! (By the way, retirement is reallllllly nice!)
Shelbee
Oh man, I have had a couple of different years where the move was that stressful. That was rough. Congrats on the retirement and the 22 years! That is hopeful to me. I definitely look forward to that day! And you are so right, 10 years ago there was very little online. It was just the official stuff the Army puts out, which I find pretty much useless.