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
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
Support this amendment so that we can get to what would be right and be a better Retirement Program and will accommodate all those members, and i ask for your support of mr. Gibsons amendment. Thank you, mr. Chairman and i yield back my time. Gentleman from virginia, mr. Forbes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Id like to yield my time to the chairman. I thank the gentleman from virginia. I certainly appreciate the comments made, and we all have the same goal which is to try to come up with a program that will allow us to recruit and retain the best and brightest. The commission spent over two years trying to come up with that program and presented it in their commissions report. We had multiple hearings in the military personnel subcommittee. We had a full hearing from the commissioners here for the entire group. Understanding its going to cause confusion alongst those that are currently serving. Those who are currently serving are not affected by the change. Its prospective. If they want to
Bolden discusses his career at life at thehis military, and decisions to attend United States Naval Academy. Charles olden, if you had your choice, would you rather be shuttle, or in the run the National Administration . I am running since the nasa right now, i would rather be doing what im doing. I am a person, i live in the moment. Know, i tellow me them, i do not regret anything, no matter how bad. What is done is done. I would not change anything because i have three beautiful granddaughters who are 6, 10, and 13. I am fearful if i went back and changed any minor thing, that might not happen. 135 missions with the Space Shuttle. 200 billion. 30 years. Was it worth it . Every dime. Think start with what i the shuttle did for the nation over its incredible 30 years that most people will never think about unless somebody tells them. Which inical world in live is very nondiverse. There are not a lot of people who look like me. In fact, in the history of this Space Shuttle program, ther