Posted on Aug 8, 2019
Will a non-veteran be accepted when heading up an Out Post for female veterans?
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Over the weekend at the Point Man conference in Buffalo, it was decided that when I get to New Hampshire, I will head up an Out Post for female veterans. I am not worried about being capable of helping them, because I do that one on one now. I am more concerned with being accepted by a group since I am not really one of them. I am a ten time survivor of events that could have and should have killed me but just an Army brat and Army veteran's wife. What do you think?
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Kathie Costos I think that you will do fine since you are already helping veterans now. Being an Army Veterans wife will also be a big plus. Good luck, and please keep us posted.
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I think you will do fine. However, you will never be accepted as a non-veteran but you can listen and let them do the talking. You have no war stories to relate to them but you can present yourself as a suvivor of a different situation. Army brat means nothing which the wife of a veteran means alot; that is your bona fides if your husband is a combat veteran. Every veteran of every war has a degree of PTSD. Furthermore, the ability to listen and not do the talking will open doors.
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