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ARMY WIVES: THE UNWRITTEN CODE OF MILITARY MARRIAGE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Tanya Biank | 260 pages | 29 May 2007 | St Martin's Press | 9780312333515 | English | New York, United States Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage by Tanya Biank, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Beyond writing, Biank served as a leader of a Family Readiness Group during her husband's deployment to Iraq. This organization was formed to help families face the difficult challenges of military life. Biank is married to Colonel Michael A. They have two children. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American journalist, author, and speaker. Retrieved 5 March Elva Resa Publishing. Retrieved 10 March Northern Virginia Magazine. Fresh Fiction. Stars and Stripes. 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Acres of spindly longleaf pines, which form a buffer between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, offered skimpy shade. In Fayetteville, where concrete and asphalt carpet everything, this was the perfect spot to bury a terrible mistake. To me, Fayetteville has always been like the wise guy perched on the stool at the end of the bar night after night, you know, the one with the leathery skin and the scratchy voice from a lifetime of smokes. In truth, it takes time to understand this town. Everyone in the 82nd jumped from airplanes, a trait that bonded the bottle washers to the graying generals. On my first plane ride with paratroopers late one night high above Fort Bragg, I witnessed what makes these soldiers unique. I was now standing on a steel ramp a few feet away, strapped into a harness tethered to the floor. I was close enough to see each face, each set of alert eyes, and each ramrod-straight body before it plunged into a vacuum of darkness. What mattered was trusting the guys around you, completing the mission, keeping everyone safe, and staying alive. Rita knew little about those details, only that her husband was gone a lot. She introduces us to the true meaning of honor and duty as we see the strains on wives with a spouse serving in a war zone. Under the Sabers shows that military families are both the hidden casualties of war and a resilient group who meet the challenges for growth during every deployment. Tanya Biank helps those of us who work with families of deployed soldiers become better able to understand and serve them"— Dr. Jaine L. Darwin, Psy. As a writer, Tanya has an advantage growing up as a daughter of a military father. She knows where to look. My memories of my own experience as a bride at Fort Bragg fifty two years ago come to mind as I become involved in the lives of women from many different backgrounds who are dealing with their successes and failures in a variety of ways. We realize there are some who are better equipped to handle their personal conflicts. In many cases these conflicts are beyond their control. In reading this detailed and insightful book we receive some hope in the fact that the military administration has recognized and has taken steps to support both husbands and wives in the future. Tanya Biank is certainly not a Nancy Shea author. She is not telling us what to do, but telling us how it is—or was—at Fort Bragg. Her experience as a reporter has produced a candid and detailed study of her subjects and a riveting story, certain to engage Army wives of all generations. The incidents described and the issues surfaced in Ms. Patton and the daughter-in-law of General George S. Patton, Jr. Under the Sabers demonstrates that while it is tough to be a soldier, it can be even tougher to be the wife of a soldier. This is a side of Army life that, until now, has escaped public scrutiny. Under the Sabers should be required reading for every military spouse and all those who are considering marrying into the military. Griffin, bestselling author "Under the Sabers captivates readers with an up close and personal look into the 'real' everyday lives and challenges of Army spouses. Kudos to Ms. Biank for portraying each spouse's story with such heartfelt compassion. Her very readable and thoughtful book delves into a rarely studied segment of the army and should be appreciated by a large general audience. She makes sympathetic both their pride and their tragedies. It truly touched me. Your writing made everything real and relevant. I am an Army brat too. My father volunteered during Vietnam and was with the 1st Cav. It is nice to see so many others who had the same experiences I did. Again, thank you for you this book. You have reached a lot of people. Absolutely excellent. It made me laugh and it made me cry. You need to write more. Most Americans have no idea the sacrifices our active duty military folks and their families make. Only someone with your experience and insight could have told the story you told. You did a masterful job of describing life in the Army, especially in a combat unit. Thank you for a wonderful read and trip down memory lane. I'll look forward to your next book. Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage | The basis for the book came from the string of Army Wife murders in the spring and summer of , that occurred in Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. The author, Tanya Biank, is a reporter who had covered the army base for years. Traveling I will be the first to admit that I loved the show Army Wives. Traveling with the corps into enemy territory, Biank was the first reporter to be embedded in with the troops. She had background knowledge of many of the goings on on the base, so when the first murder of an army wife happened, she was the one who covered it. The murders, however, played a minor role in the book. What Biank really focused on was the wives of the soldiers. What their lives were like, the pressures they were under to not only support their husbands, but to appear to the outside world that they were both perfect spouses, and perfect supporters of the army. Some women adjusted to their roles without problems. Others, did not adjust. The core group of women that Biank focused on were a mix of perfect and not so perfect. In the case of Andrea Floyd Pamela from the show , one of the army wives who was murdered by her husband, she seemed like the perfect person. Until she told her husband she was leaving him and had an affair while he was overseas. Her affair, however, had absolutely nothing to do with her leaving her husband. Her husband was verbally abusive, and after years of his abuse, she was done. Other wives experienced loss, and how they reacted to their loss reflected back on their husbands and their husbands positions in the army. What amazed me the most, though I had heard about this from a friend whose own husband served in the army, the amount of women who cheat on their husbands while they are away, and the amount of soldiers who cheat on their wives while they are on their tours of duty. What shocked me the most, though, was that it was okay for the men to cheat, but if the woman cheated, well, that was just unthinkable. And for four of the women, they lost their lives over their "alleged" cheating. While the television show is incredibly different, I can see how this book was able to be transferred into a television show. I have always respected the soldiers who have served in the army. I think I respect their wives more because of their sacrifices and the hardships that they go through as a result of their husbands' career choices. This was a great look into the lives of army wives and the army in general. Aug 10, Heidi Willis rated it really liked it. Under the Sabers is a non-fiction book that follows four Army wives stationed at Fort Bragg the two years prior to the shocking summer in which four Army wives were murdered within a 6 month period. The author does a great job in showing how the Army affects marriages and the role that it plays in a family without condemning the military. I was afraid, starting the book, that the moral of the story wou I picked up Under the Sabers because I knew it was the inspiration for the TV show Army Wives. I was afraid, starting the book, that the moral of the story would be that the Army was the cause of the murders at Fort Bragg, and that the stories of these wives would illustrate how the Army breaks down marriages.

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