The committee will come to order. We have individuals who would like to disrupt the hearing. So i will ask our spectator who is are here to observe the hearing today to observe the courtesy of allowing us to hear. If cause a disruption, which you usually do, we will have to ask you to leave. I dont know what the point is but if you do, i would ask you to for your courtesy to hear what our distinguished panelists have to say who have served our country with honor and distinction. I hope you would respect that. So we will move forward. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today. We will receive testimony on the impact of the budget control act of sequestration on u. S. National security. I am grateful to our witnesses not onlt for appearing before us today, but also for their many decades of distinguished service to our country in uniform. I also appreciate their sincere and ernest attempts over many years to warn the congress and the American People of what is happening to our Arme
And now after words on booktv. Elaine lowry brye the mother of four military officers talks about what families go through during times of deployment. She discusses her book be safe love mom with Patricia Kime senior military writer for military times. Host welcome. I am here with Elaine Lowry Brye to discuss her new book be safe, love mom a military moms stories of courage, comfort and surviving life on the homefront. Welcome to washington. Guest thank you so much and thank you so much are being here to talk with me about it. Host tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. What happened was in 2001 my oldest son headed off to the Naval Academy and at that time there was a place where parents could communicate with each other and engage in just kind of connect and so i began posting on that listserv. Along came 9 11 and everything changed. My son had gone to Peacetime Navy and within a few short hours everything changed. So i began to write more. I would wri
That started a series of 14 years of me advising and encouraging and supporting the Naval Academy. Through this time i had two more children who decided to apply at the Naval Academy but now i had children on active duty. And so many parents say that you need to write this all down until after my husbands company declared bankruptcy, he ended up working for an airline in afghanistan and i followed him and i taught for a year in afghanistan, had a unique perspective of being a mom who have had children to play to afghanistan and now i was there at the same time that the rebels decided to join the military not through the Naval Academy and now i have four children while serving i have been in a war zone and when i came back people were saying that you need to write this down and i thought, well, i will write it down for my family and so i did and a parent said no you need to do more than that with this and the result was the book be safe, love mom amilitary moms storiesof courage, comfor
On the homefront. Welcome to washington. Guest thank you so much for being here to talk with me about it. So, tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. My oldest son headed off to the Naval Academy and at that time there were parents to communicate with each other and engage and just kind of connect so i began posting on that list and everything changed. My son had gone to a Peacetime Navy and within a few short hours everything changed. And so i began to write more. Ultimately i was asked to become a moderator and that started with me encouraging and supporting the navy Academy Parents through the time i have two more had two more children who decided to apply and attend the Naval Academy and so as the years went by not only did i have them i had that i have been on active duty and so they kept saying you need to write this all down in the book and as our life continued in its twists and turns, my husband after his airline declared bankruptcy he worked for
Encouraged and for us to remember our roots. Ultimately i was asked to become a moderator. That started a series of 14 years of me advising encouraging and supporting Naval Academy parents. Through this time i had two more children who decided to apply and ultimately attend the Naval Academy. So as the years went by not only did i am children at the Naval Academy, now i have been on active duty. So parents kept saying they need to write this all down in the book, you need to write this all down. And as our life continued in its twists and turns, my husband after his airline declared bankruptcy, lost his pension he ended up working for an airline in afghanistan. I followed him and taught for here in afghanistan so had his unique perspective of being a mother who have had children deployed to afghanistan and now i was there in kabul at the same time our youngest son, the rebel, decided to join the military, not to the Naval Academy but through army rotc. Now i have four children all serv