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When you're the spouse of a Guard or Reserve service member, things are usually pretty clear: your service member spouse has a civilian job, plus military duties one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer - and you plan accordingly. But the military's increasing reliance on Guard and Reserve ranks to round out the active-duty force, has turned this familiar routine upside down.

Sara Horn, the wife of a Navy reservist, writes in a recent issue of Military Spouse Magazine about the particular issues that face military spouses whose Guard or Reservist spouse is deployed. To emphasize the reality of this trend, she cites DOD stats noting that 650,000 Reserve and Guard members have deployed since Sept. 2001.

While all military spouses face difficulties with deployments, Guard and Reserve spouses have unique challenges; Horn mentions a few of the issues facing these particular spouses:

- They are generally not connected to a military installation community
- Much of the military jargon is brand-new
- Loads of deployment paperwork
- Possible issues involving a spouse's civilian employer
- Reservists can sometimes be deployed with units in another state

Sara Horn has a blog where she writes about issues affecting the spouses of Guard and Reserve members. And though spouses may be tempted to fill the months of deployment with worry, they can also fill the time with education instead, thanks to the number of spouse-friendly colleges for military spouses and military spouse scholarships that now exists. Distance (online) education also allows military spouses the opportunity to study while they continue taking care of their children or while holding down a full-time job.

In addition to more childcare and education, jobs for military spouses have been an important priority for the military and the DOD. Efforts by both organizations are aimed at improving the career prospects of this unheralded segment of American society.

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