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Making your move from the barracks to the (college) dorms
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· Source: We Are The Mighty — reporting by Adam Gramegna
· Friday, May 1, 2026
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One day, the uniform is laid out on a twin bed, and your schedule is built around PT, formations, and the grinding mental gymnastics of military life.
One day, the uniform is laid out on a twin bed, and your schedule is built around PT, formations, and the grinding mental gymnastics of military life. Then, somewhere between having 300 copies of your DD-214 paperwork made and the first civilian bill, something cracks, and an epiphany is born.
A service member wants to become a student, and the spouse who spent years managing every PCS, every deployment, every emergency with a broken furnace and two kids is now forced to plan for a completely different operation. Welcome to the barracks-to-dorms transition. There is no way to predict how it will go.
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