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Category: MILITARY LIFE & TRAVEL

Military life changes how you see the world. It means building a marriage across distance, raising children between duty stations, and learning to shape a home out of temporary walls. It means goodbyes every few years, late-night phone calls from overseas, and a level of resilience most people never witness.

This category gathers the stories that grow out of that life—SpaceA trips that opened the world to us, the hard lessons of supporting a partner through PTSD, the realities of saving money on base, and the quiet worries many of us carry as political decisions ripple through our communities. You’ll also find guides for PCS moves, memories from growing up as an Army brat, reflections on quarantine in Korea, and the push-and-pull between service and personal identity.

These posts offer practical help and emotional truth for anyone living the military journey or trying to understand it. Whether you’re navigating your first assignment or your tenth move, you’re not doing it alone.

MILITARY LIFE & TRAVEL My apartment in Baumholder

Baumholder Military Life: What Made Our German Apartment So Special

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Don’t get me wrong, I loved our little apartment in Baumholder, but that town was well-known for its contrary weather. We fondly and not so fondly referred to it as the rock. We lived in an old stone mansion that had been renovated into four large apartments. We shared the second floor with a retired German officer. The first floor was split between a US Major and his wife. Across the hall was a 90+ year old German widow.

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