Victoria Gomez is a Filipina-American, military brat, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She’s the proud wife of a soldier and mother of three, bright and amazing, young men. Victoria has a multi-faceted resume: U.S. Army veteran, Pentagon policy writer, fitness instructor, substitute teacher, mental health therapist, Department of the Army equipment distribution analyst, NCAA recruiting compliance specialist, unit volunteer, team mom, coach, and university enrollment counselor. She’s an avid journal keeper, lover of languages and cultures, car karaoke singer, selfie-taker, work-outaholic, and traveler. She enjoys writing whenever she can, mostly in the early hours when the world is asleep or in the carpool line, since time is typically constrained by work-life-balance. She’s often seen watching and listening, writing in her journal, taking notes in her car, at a football game, or in a restaurant. She loves deeper and laughs louder than most, and seeks every opportunity to make the ordinary extraordinary. She loves the beach, good food, football, and her family. She calls the world home, but now parks her gypsy van in Leawood.
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20/21 20-YEARS OF WAR FROM MY EYES
by
Victoria Gomez
This book is a true depiction of the challenges Military Spouses face across the spectrum of service. Most service members are too busy to see what they ask their spouse to do to support their selfless service to our Nation. Any leader knows that both the Service Member and the family serve, but this book helps you truly see it through the eyes of the women that lived it over the last twenty years of conflict. It is not surprising that military service is becoming a family business more and more. An honest and eye opening appraisal of what we ask of the military spouse. This book delivers on a conversation that we need to have inside and outside the military to illuminate the criticality of how the Army family and military spouse are the backbone of our Nation’s fighting men and women. Well worth the time for a quick read that will make you a better leader and more empathetic spouse.
by MichaelThis book is a true depiction of the challenges Military Spouses face across the spectrum of service. Most service members are too busy to see what they ask their spouse to do to support their selfless service to our Nation. Any leader knows that both the Service Member and the family serve, but this book helps you truly see it through the eyes of the women that lived it over the last twenty years of conflict. It is not surprising that military service is becoming a family business more and more. An honest and eye opening appraisal of what we ask of the military spouse. This book delivers on a conversation that we need to have inside and outside the military to illuminate the criticality of how the Army family and military spouse are the backbone of our Nation’s fighting men and women. Well worth the time for a quick read that will make you a better leader and more empathetic spouse.
by MichaelA really good perspective book on the different experiences of war through spouses and mothers. Not like a lot of war books...there are no stories of bravery or battlefield heroism, just how family members survive while a soldier is deployed. Loved it. Great read.
by Steven