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"This book is about military family separations during the Global War on Terror, told through the voices of spouses married to US Army soldiers reflecting on stages of the deployment cycle, including experiences of children and experiences with social supports, social, and mass media"--

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- 1 Millennials on the Rise? -- Who are the Millennials? -- Characteristics of Millennials -- Millennials and the military -- Military academies and Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) -- Civil-military gap? -- Studying Millennials' perspectives on the military: the BASS -- 2 Millennials' Attitudes toward Military Service -- Military service as civic engagement -- Perceptions of the American military -- Willingness to serve -- National service -- Conclusions -- 3 Millennials' Attitudes on the US Armed Forces -- Primary role of the military in society -- International roles of the military -- Threats to American security -- Conclusions -- 4 Millennials and Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan -- Academic approaches to war support -- War support -- Conclusions -- 5 Millennials and Diversity in the Armed Forces -- Women in military service -- Approval of women serving in military jobs -- Knowledge of the role of women in the military -- Views of career opportunities in the military -- Gays and lesbians in the US military -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- The future of national defense from Millennials' perspectives -- The military institution and defense today -- The future of the military institution -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

"American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique sociological snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition."

Thousands of films coverwar and the military, but fewhighlight military family life. This study reports a systematic content analysis of forty-six films between 1935 and 2002 that spotlight children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults from military-service-related families. The results show a diverse range of portrayals across military branches, wars, genders, races, ages, military ranks, roles, and familial relationships. Furthermore, cinematic demands of military family life are portrayed inconsistently with real life experiences reinforcing a modest civil-military gap. Finally, six patterned characteristics emerge from the content analysis including intergenerational military occupational linkages, social deviance, precociousness, social mobility, youth romance, and parent-child conflicts. The present study partially confirms studies of civilian youth in film suggesting a diverse cinematic experience at the teenage stage of the life course. The results highlight a struggle in the negotiation between self-conceptions and self-images of children from military families where a reinforced stereotype of "military brat" is constructed in American cinema.

Armed Forces & Society (AF&S), is a major scholarly outlet for social scientists interested in military subjects, and in 1999 completed 25 volumes of continuous publication. This article presents data on authorship and affiliations for volumes 1-25 of AF&S and compares the findings to studies of other scholarly journals. Topical areas of analysis include (co)authorship, sex configurations of (co)authors, and academic, regional, and institutional affiliations of authors. Results show the journal to be fairly international and highly interdisciplinary. Overall, AF&S is both similar and dissimilar along a number of sociodemographic dimensions compared with other sociology and specialty area journals.