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Wife of female U.S. Army officer can join military spouses club
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A woman who is married to a female Army officer at Fort Bragg and who was recently denied membership in its officers’ spouses club said late Friday that she has been invited to become a full member.
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Snubbed by spouses club, Ashley Broadway named Fort Bragg ‘Military Spouse of the Year’
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Ashley Broadway, the military spouse embroiled in an ongoing discrimination controversy at Fort Bragg, was select as that base’s “Military Spouse of the Year,” following an online vote by her peers and supporters.
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Fort Bragg officers’ spouses club offers lesbian spouse ‘guest membership’
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army officers’ spouses club at Fort Bragg, N.C., under fire for denying membership to the lesbian wife of an Army officer, has offered the spouse a “guest membership” in the group while it reviews its bylaws. The Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses offered the “guest membership” on Thursday to Ashley […]
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Fort Bragg meeting brings no resolution in discrimination by spouses group
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A meeting lasting more than an hour on Thursday brought no resolution to nearly two weeks of controversy surrounding the denial of Ashley Broadway, the wife of an Army Lieutenant Colonel, for membership in the Association of Bragg Officer’s Spouses.
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A Failure of Leadership: Ft. Bragg and the Pentagon
Military spouses’ organizations aren’t just social clubs – they provide critical support to families that face challenges that civilian families don’t understand – long separations due to training and deployment, stresses on everyone in the family when a loved one goes to war. Most Army wives, and husbands recognize that we need each others’ support to deal with the tough challenges of military life – and that we’re all in this together. So what the heck is wrong at Fort Bragg?