When Duty Calls

A Handbook for Families Facing Military Separation

Carol Vandesteeg

• Publisher: David C Cook
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780781406970
• Print ISBN:
  9780781442886

In this unique and wonderfully thorough handbook, a military wife and mom shares practical advice about preparing and dealing with deployment of a loved one. Carol Vandesteeg helps families learn what to expect as they prepare for deployment, how to communicate while separated, helping children through the separation, and reuniting at the end of the tour of duty. When Duty Calls also addresses the subject that's so painful to face: the possibility that the loved one may not return.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Section I. Preparing for Family Separation
• Section II. Deployment
• Section III. Reunion
• Section IV. Some Don’t Return
• Section V. The Total Force
• Appendix: Acronyms
• Notes
• Extras