{"id":798,"date":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2023-04-03T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:58:18","slug":"u-s-army-reserve-married-couple-deploys-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Reserve married couple deploys together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Reserve married couple deploys together to the Middle East. Sgt. 1st Class Sharla Pringle and Sgt. 1st Class Bennie Pringle with the 143d Expeditionary Sustainment Command represents the three percent of dual military couples serving in the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard. Together, the Pringles exemplify the unlimited possibilities to discover their passions, pursue their purpose, and build a lifelong community while serving in the U.S. Army Reserve. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Katherine Alegado)
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CAMP ARIJAN, Kuwait \u2014 Dual military couples have unique stressors that other married couples do not necessarily face. These unique challenges do not prevent many dual military couples from having happy, healthy, successful marriages throughout their military career.<\/p>\n

Deployed U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Bennie Pringle, a maintenance management sergeant, and Sgt. 1st Class Sharla Pringle, an operations sergeant, serving with the 143d Expeditionary Sustainment Command celebrate thirteen years of marriage this year.<\/p>\n

The couple met while deployed in Iraq, serving with the 520th Movement Control Team in 2008 and later married in 2010. Thirteen years later, they are deployed as husband and wife in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.<\/p>\n

They have each deployed twice, separately, since they\u2019ve been married. Having a shared knowledge of what it\u2019s like to be deployed has helped them establish boundaries that assist with work-life balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a routine because we are around each other so much in this environment. When we get off work and come out of the building, we have dinner and talk about work. When we get to the room, we\u2019re done talking about work,\u201d Sharla said. \u201cBy the time we get to our room, we\u2019re talking about family, finances, and everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharla shared how planning is key in their marriage, which is why the couple tries to keep their downtime activities like what they would do outside a deployed environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easier for me this time because she\u2019s here with me,\u201d Bennie said. \u201cWe have date nights, which might be a movie night, depending on what\u2019s playing,\u201d Bennie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also go off-post,\u201d Sharla said. \u201cI enjoy it because it\u2019s an opportunity for us to be out and be together.\u201d She explained that even in marriage one must be intentional and continuously date.<\/p>\n

The Army has offered dual-military couples possibilities to pursue their purpose and build a lifelong community.<\/p>\n

Sharla conveyed that had it not been for the Army she would not have had the opportunity to meet her husband because of how different their backgrounds were. \u201cIn the early 90s, you didn\u2019t see a lot dual-military couples. The Army has made it possible for marriages to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bennie expressed that he\u2019s grateful that there are resources available to married couples and their families in the Army. \u201cThere\u2019s a community of married Soldiers even in this environment that also provides support. I see that we can both be in the Army and accomplish the same goals that we had when we were single, but together as a married couple. One career doesn\u2019t have to stop for either one of us to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pringles represent the three percent of dual military couples serving in the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Army Reserve married couple deploys together to the Middle East. Sgt. 1st Class Sharla Pringle and Sgt. 1st Class Bennie Pringle with the 143d Expeditionary Sustainment Command represents the three percent of dual military couples serving in the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard. Together, the Pringles exemplify the unlimited possibilities to discover their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}