Our Purpose

The purpose of the Pacesetters Spouse Support Group is to establish a network whereby spouses can contact each other for information, assistance, and support.

Military families know that military service is not a job, it’s a lifestyle. For families, military service provides endless opportunities for adventure and learning; however, at the same time, our families are subject to unique challenges.

Recruiting is a rare hybrid of military life which brings about additional challenges. While we are still bound morally and contractually to our military goals and objectives, we are balancing ourselves between military and civilian life. We don't have the usual resources afforded to "base stationed" families right at hand. Therefore, we need to be able to depend on each other when needed.

While we assimilate our military famlies into the civilian sector, let's face it, a lot of times non-military families don't understand the military life or face the same situations that we do. Our civilian family seems to think that if there's something we don't like, we can just call the General and tell him that we don't like it and it'll get changed. RIGHT! They don't quite understand that that's not how it works! Sometimes you just need to call someone else who's been there, done that. Someone who knows what it's like and understands what you might be going through. If you're having a problem, chances are another spouse has been through the same thing. We may not be able to fix each others problems, but we can listen to each other, bounce ideas off each other, and sometimes just complain until we get it out of our system! We are truly brothers and sisters-in-arms and need to be there for each other no matter what. Call upon each other for guidance, support, and understanding.