The end-of-year holiday season comes with both joys and challenges when it comes to military life. One of the greatest challenges many service members face is deployment. For military couples, friends and families, whether the service member has been deployed or not, the prospect of deployment looms large in the background of their relationships and plans.
Aria Spears
Aria Spears joined CityView as a HomeFront columnist in 2023. She is a freelance copywriter, civic leadership enthusiast and current graduate student at Duke University. A Missourian-turned-Army spouse, she loves a good float trip and exploring the Fayetteville–Fort Liberty region with her family and Jack Russell Terrier, Renny.
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If you’re affiliated with the military, you’ve likely acquired an experience or two that evokes wildly different reactions from different groups. Your civilian connections? Shock, disbelief. Your military connections? Shrug. “I did that in 2016.”