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Southwest Asia, January 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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My DH’s promotion, Hurlburt Field Memorial Air Park, September 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(Updated 8 July 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Patricia, but in the blogging world I became known as “Major Mom” thanks to a friend in the Air Force Reserves. \u00a0As soon as he had said it, the David Bowie song “Space Oddity” went through my mind.<\/p>\n

I am a mother and wife first – an Air Force wife, that is. \u00a0My husband proudly serves in the Air Force as a weather officer.<\/p>\n

I also continue to serve my country as a weather officer in the Air Force Reserves.<\/p>\n

It’s a wonderful double-life I lead.<\/p>\n

Leaving the active duty Air Force in April 2005 was a very difficult decision for me — I had our second son in early 2005 just before the 10-year-point in my career. \u00a0It was already tough having to turn my oldest son over to a child care center every duty day — 50 hours per week. \u00a0So in spring 2005 I took advantage of a Reserves job opening for which I was qualified in Norfolk, Virginia — my hometown!<\/p>\n

It’s truly awesome getting to see our sons grow up, and be able to help out at their school, on their sports teams (I’ve coached soccer before) and as a Cub Scout den leader. \u00a0I’m not sure I’d have had time for that if I had remained on active duty.<\/p>\n

We currently live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while my wonderful husband is an assistant professor of physics at the US Air Force Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We have lived in the following locations since we graduated from Penn State University in 1995:<\/p>\n