Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia – Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls

Military spouses are situated at the junction of the military and civilian worlds. They provide necessary support to military strategic and operational objectives and are also expected to perform a traditional spousal role of the ‘good’ military wife. This article demonstrates the existence of strong military partner archetypes which guide military community norms and expectations of spousal behaviour. In 14 qualitative interviews and five focus groups with Australian military partners, participants revealed many different, yet firm, sentiments related to identity, including fierce independence; a sense of belonging; self-reliance; a desire to help others; belief in fairness and pragmatism. The archetypes outlined in this article shape how partners see their role, and how they interact with other non-military partners and the military organization. This research delivers insights into optimizing military partner services to better support spouses through deployment, relocation and other military experiences.

Global American Dream

Meredith and Wes Armer had their lives all planned out. Wes was a rising star in the US Air Force. Meredith embraced her role as a military wife and mother to their three young girls. Moving from base to base as Wes climbed the career ladder was a small price to pay for a growing salary, secure benefits, and what the couple imagined would be an early retirement spent on a farm somewhere in North Carolina. However, that was still several years off, and Wes faced the very real possibility of multiple deployments in the meantime....

What Rus’-Ukraina was begun with?

Background: The Thorny problems of indo-european and Slavic ethnogenezis abandon debatable the questions of beginning of the Ukrainian ethnos and his state system. Practical absence of a traditional spring base pushed away on the second plan usual historiography methods and pulled out on the first plan a tool end proofs of the special disciplines created on his base: linguistics, onomastics, ethnography, anthropology and archaeology. But white the Ukrainian researchers from far away watch after the polemic of their neighbours, last, especially taking into account the terms of “hibrid war”. With lightness attribut these questions to beginning of 20 of century and, even, later. Purpose: In the article a realizable attempt is on the basic of the last achievements of world science to analyse Slavic ethnogenezis from appearance of the Slavic tribal unions. Community development of the se tribal unions is analysed also in the light of mone new theories of chiefdom up to her transformation in the early state of military wife type (military hovernment). Results: The consequences of this development are fixed in the first fixed undoubted report about existence the Caganat of Rus’. In the process of research the comparative analysis of development of institutes of the state of military hovernment was carried out in Slavic, Scandinavian and Centrally-Cerman arrays. The similar global analisis of these difficult processes and phenomena comes true in general first with complete realization discussions are round them on the whole as well as in separate details. The undoubted is seemed only by a general conclusion in relation to completion of these processes and transformations in the Dnepr region in the first half of 9 of Century as a result of creation of Caganat of Rus’. Key words: old indo-european association, culture of lithoidal battle-exes, German and Baltic-Slavic languare groups, tribe, chefdom, state of military hovernment, Caganat of Rus’.

“I’m Not Your ‘Typical’ Military Wife”: The Construction of Gender and Agency Through Stereotypes

Within the institution and military community, civilian wives of service members occupy complicated roles. On the one hand, wives are undisputedly crucial to the functioning of their service member husbands. However, wives are simultaneously considered subordinate to their husbands within the military and extended community. Indicative of this attitude are the divisive stereotypes of military wives that range from lazy and irresponsible, to overly rank-conscious and entitled. Based on combined in-depth interviews from two samples of military wives, this article investigates how the women navigate the military spouse role within the institutional, community-oriented context of the military. Specifically, we ask, how do these women construct gender and exercise agency when drawing on the stereotypes of wives within the community? By utilizing such mechanisms as symbolic boundary work, gender policing, and stereotyping, women both reify stereotypes of the military spouse and exert agency in creating the military spouse identity for themselves.

Military Wives: Ambiguity in a Traditional Role

The traditional pattern of the two-person career in the military has undergone a transition so that the contemporary role of the military wife has become similar to the civilian one. Data from 111 women married to servicemen stationed overseas at 13 bases in 4 countries suggest that, although the traditional dependent pattern is no longer universal, much role ambiguity and conflict remain as families adapt to the changing military environment.