My name is Fransheska Dlugopolski and my husband is Staff Sergeant Taylor. He joined in 2007 straight out of high school. He wanted to serve and protect his country from those who hurt us the most. He has served 3 tours overseas two in afghanistan 1 in iraq have been 3 years married 2 years. We met in 2012 in Fort campbell Kentucky where my best friend and her husband where station at the time. We got married may of 2013. We have been stationed at Fort Campbell Kentucky where my husband was there for 6 years when i had met him and right now we are currently stationed at Fort Wainwright Alaska where we have been the last two years.
My husband loves his job, but just like any other job there are things he does and does not like about the military a few things he does not like is the low grade health care for the soldiers and their families. Also, he doesn’t like that during certain training exercises the units must abid by civilian regulations for high impact ranges, rather then active military personal running the range operations.
As a military spouse the one thing I don’t like about the army is the same as my husband the lack of treatment and medical help we are provided though sometimes you get one great doctor the majority of the time we get doctors that I feel like don’t truly listen to our concerns or worries about our health or the health of our children for example my 16 month old son just had to get his adenoids removed cause they were more than 70% blocked I had been battling the doctors in Alaska since he was about 5 months old to get his adenoids looked at and they didn’t seem to really care as to what i had to say and just blew it off like it was nothing and said his drooling problem was due to his teething when it truly wasn’t. It wasn’t till we came home to visit and had a civilian doctor look and actually take the time and listen to my concerns that we got the problem fixed. Some things he likes are that they provide soldiers with high grade equipment and weapons and the sense of job security and the bond he has created with his brothers and sisters in arms over the years.
I believe that the health care department in the military needs alot of work and they need to truly review the doctors and staff that each hospital hires and make sure that they arent just working for a paycheck that they actually care about our soldiers and their families especially our veterans cause thats where the slacking begins and it shouldn’t they should be the first ones we are taking care of with the upmost respect and diginity
