As more San Diego based service members get deployed, many military families are on edge wondering how long the conflict will last.<\/p>\n
One military spouse spoke with NBC 7. Due to the sensitive nature of military deployments, we are not identifying her by name.<\/p>\n
The woman we\u2019ll call Claire shared some of the challenges military families go through during deployments.<\/p>\n
Claire is no stranger to military deployments.<\/p>\n
Her husband is in the Navy and has served in multiple military operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey get extended quite often. So, you might think, oh you\u2019re going to go out for six months, and then it turns into eight months, and then it turns into you know, who knows what…\u00a0that\u2019s hard. It\u2019s so that\u2019s hard,\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n
He was on one of the ships that were recently deployed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous to say the least,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But he transferred to transition out right before it deployed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re glad daddy is here?\u201d Claire asked her son. \u201cYeah\u201d he replied. \u201cGood,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
As a mother of two, Claire empathizes with what many spouses are going through.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know a lot of military families right now are really struggling,\u201d Claire said. \u201cWe\u2019re in this together, and we are as a community, military spouses and family. If we didn\u2019t have that community, it\u2019d be a lot more difficult to withstand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Part of that community includes\u00a0the Blue Star Families. It\u2019s a non-profit that connects military families to support services. Executive Director Maggie Meza understands the challenges, being a military mom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember distinctly being overwhelmed with three small children and needing to take care of them and the home and I woke up one morning and heard a lawn mower and it makes me emotional just to think about it. And the neighbor next door started mowing my lawn and recognized that I\u2019d been alone for a while,\u201d Meza said.<\/p>\n
Though Blue Star Families helps military members with financial, childcare, and mental health resources, they encourage them to continue seeking support because the San Diego community has their back.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s something Claire said has helped her navigate uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving that open dialogue is going to help you feel heard, help you feel seen, and maybe lighten the load a little bit of carrying all of that anxiety of not knowing potentially what\u2019s going to happen in your home and your family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Blue Star Families Southern California Chapter serves over 19,000 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As more San Diego based service members get deployed, many military families are on edge wondering how long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1703,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-241821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-military","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}