Month of the military child

April is the Month of the Military Child. This awareness month was established to highlight the role children play in the military community. There are about 2 million military children. Care of military children sustains our fighting force, and strengthens the health of our Army families.

This month we went around asking different Army parents why it is important to recognize what military children go through.

“It is important recognize the children because many people don’t even realize the difficulties many military children have to go through. The Army offers challenging careers and we have to be considerate of our child’s thoughts and feelings whenever our duties take us away from them.” – Sgt. Kutta, a father of three and a team leader with B Company, 2^nd Battalion, 3^rd Infantry Regiment.

“We make sacrifices for our nation, but our children can be at times the strongest in the family. They learn at a an early age that their Dad has a job to do. They know we can’t always be there and they deal with that remarkably well. They are always with us and that makes us stronger as a whole.” – Pfc. Laforge, a father of one child and an infantryman with B Co., 2-3 Inf.