When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special education services.
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When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special education services.
Officially, the Department of Defense sees military spouses and children as "dependents'' on military paperwork, but the term has stretched beyond the bureaucratic and become firmly established in the informal military lexicon.