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Interview with miltary wife – Bethany Jett

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Meet military wife, Bethany Jett, an example of a woman who is capable and able to live the military lifestyle while raising her boys. She proves you can have it all and be a Patriot. Being a military wife takes skills not taught in colleges… maybe they should be! lol

Because we know the military lifestyle and frequent moves take a toll on a spouses career. We wanted to introduce you to Bethany Jett. She manages to succeed doing a job she can pick up and move when necessary. It would be awesome if all careers were capable of doing the same. During and after Covid, many people have discovered their jobs are a bit more mobile and transferable than they ever imagined.

Watch the video to get to know Bethany who became a military wife when she married her college sweetheart and followed him through his stint in the Marines, as a youth pastor, and now in the Guard. She discusses the ways she and her Air Guard hubby stay connected.

Faith. Love. Military. All great topics in this interview.

To connect with Bethany the military wife, mom, and business woman go to her website at bethanyjett.com.

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Thank you Bethany for a fun interview and allowing our readers to get to know you!

To read more of the military members, military wives and husbands, Brats, Gold Star Families and Military parents visit our blog from the beginning at https://rulesofengagmentmilitaryromance.wordpress.com/2022/07/29/coming-soon/

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DeeDee’s Story: A Military Brat Part 2 of 6

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Change Inevitably Happened

Looking back to 1980, our entire family was unknowingly, unprepared for civilian life. I suppose my parents had a better handle on it since they were both born to civilian parents. (Mom’s dad had been in WW-II when she was born). As for me and my siblings we could have used some coaching before we were planted in land-locked, southern, rural Alabama beside Fort Rucker (an Army post).

Me as a Rota cheerleader, upper right in the back row
1980 – me and my besties!

Military to Civilian Life

My mom had spent her first twenty years of marriage as a Navy wife, then she was surrounded by Army lifestyle, Army personnel, Army wives, Army dialog, everything all Army. The rural environment was not her cup of tea. She had grown up between the Tennessee mountains and the Virginia coastline. Alabama was as foreign to her as it was to me.

Dad was originally from Alabama but his time away in the Navy had changed him from a country boy to a man who had traveled the oceans, crossed the Equator, cruised around the tip of Africa, lived in foreign countries, rode a camel, learn to speak two other languages, married a Virginia girl and had three kids. He had changed. Life for him was different from when he left in order to escape his father’s summer plans for him to work the land, cut down trees, and be the son who stayed.

As we all struggled to find our place, my little sister was often overlooked. The youngest, the quietest, the smallest she needed us the most. We didn’t see her forest for our trees. Life was not the same. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t wrong. It was simply different than we had experienced and expected. We were no longer in a military environment living in the country.

Me and my siblings on a bunk. Our quartes were always a different size and my parents were pros at getting us settled in. We are sitting on the top of the bunk my dad made. It had three beds. We thought were so cool.

Military Brats are Comfortable with Change

Military Brats are comfortable with change. We know change is inevitable. What was hard to understand was in our own country – the one we’d always been so proud of were:

  • People who knew and lived near their relatives while we struggled to understand the role of a cousin.
  • Understanding county and state lines after years of studying the local history wherever we had lived.
  • Kids driving at a much earlier age with customs, sayings, and so much more different from we knew.

Stay tuned for more of DeeDee’s story of life as a military brat. Part 3 is September 8, 2022.