It was hard to miss the irony of being overstretched at home by poor infrastructure and gaps in care (even as I went into debt to pay for childcare) at a moment when the government was perfectly happy to fund my spouse to tour a mothballed nuclear testing site.
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As a Navy spouse of 10 years and counting, my life offers an up-close view of our country s priorities when it comes to infrastructure and government spending.Recently, my husband, a naval officer currently serving with the Department of Energy, spent a week with colleagues touring a former nuclear .