Red Carpet Welcome Home – USS Olympia

The USS Olympia recently returned from a 7 month deployment. What I like most about this photo is the creative red carpet and arch! Have you done anything creative like this for homecoming? JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (March 4, 2013) Senior Chief Sonar Technician Jim Sowa kisses his wife for the first kiss following [...]

Valentines Day love

 Click here to download image “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Sense and Sensibility  Before there was Downton Abbey there was Sense and Sensibility. This film is one of my all time favorites. It is filled with many great quotes, one of which I have used above for this Valentine’s Day eCard. The long nights of [...]

Welcome New Blogger Vanessa

Hi Everyone, We have some new and exciting things going on here at My Military Life. They including getting to welcome some new bloggers. Today, please help me welcome military spouse Vanessa! She is located on the east coast and will be blogging about life on the homefront while experiencing a pregnancy during a deployment [...]

What a Homecoming

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Warren, with Detachment 4, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 37, drops his helmet and runs to greet his wife in Kaneohe, Hawaii, on Dec. 1, 2011. DoD photo by Kristen Wong, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) – Welcome Home!!

Photographing Christmas

Christmas is such a great time for taking pictures!  Here are a few ideas that you might like to try to create some great photos for Christmas. 1) Take pictures with a ball ornament. This is a pretty fun idea.  You take a picture of a glass ball ornament and you can see the scene [...]

Welcome Home USS Springfield – SSN 761

GROTON, Conn. (Nov. 11, 2011) The Los Angeles attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) makes her way through the fog to return to homeport at Submarine Base New London. Springfield returned from a scheduled six-month deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by John Narewski/Released) Welcome Home to the Sailors of the USS Springfield (SSN 761)! You can [...]

Eye on Deployment

Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Chris A. Durney Sgt. Mathew Neely of Camden, Ark., kisses his infant son Bryce for the first time after returning home from Iraq as a member of the Arkansas National Guard's 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Eye on Deployment

Eye on Deployment 110727-N-YF783-050 NORFOLK (July 27, 2011) Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Gregory Charles hugs his fiance and one-month-old daughter for the first time after returning home from a deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87). Mason was the final ship of the [...]

Favorite Fan’s featured on our Facebook Page

Welcome home to the USS Boise (SSN 764)!! Do you have a favorite homecoming photo? We are starting a new feature on our Facebook book page where we will highlight a fan of the week. Submit your favorite picture to our wall,  during that week we will choose a favorite fan and change our profile [...]

Welcome Home 3rd MAW Marines and Sailors

Photo of the Day Sgt. Cesar Hernandez, a flight equipment technician with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232, shares a moment with his daughter, Catalina Hernandez, at the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11 and VMFA-232 homecoming here, Nov. 22. Family and friends welcomed home 110 Marines and sailors from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan. There are [...]

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