Interesting well good luck to all of you serving in the military!  We get a lot of military referrals in Delaware due to the Dover Air Force Base Nearby...thanks for post.

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Tom, I'm certain they have a similar program at Dover, it's just the details that will be different!

Now you have me curious if our pharmacy/medical center at SANG has this same benefit.  Thanks for bringing it to attention Marlene.

Marlene,  It is good that military personnel can get free otc medications - every little biy can help them,  Karen

Kris, I bet they do.  Just give them a call and ask them for details about free over-the-counter meds, and I'm sure they will give you the specifics.

Karen,  you better believe every little bit helps!  And Northern Virginia is surrounded by military bases...

Marlene, this is a great post and you should enter it into the Military Relocation Contest!

Do you get your prescription drugs there, too?  We get ours at the USNA, and it's very convenient!

Margaret, I will enter it if you think I should.  I haven't really done any other blog posts regarding military this month, but I hope to do so.  We do get our prescription drugs at Naval Hospital Bremerton unless it is a brand-name that they do not carry.  In most cases the substitution is fine, but every now and then I have to have the specific brand, so I end up going outside.  However, with Tricare as our insurance, even that is very inexpensive.

Marlene, this is the least we can do for military families - and I'm glad it's not a hassle!

Marlene - Glad to see you entered this in the contest - it's living proof that a post doesn't have to be long to be worthwhile.  To answer your question, you can enter as many posts as you can write each week.   The idea is to build a body of posts that will be interesting to people at a military installaion near you AND build higher placement for you in the search engines.  You're off to a good start with this.

Thanks, Margaret!  I'll see what else I can come up with this week.  Do you think that posts about local attractions would be a good thing to submit for your contest?

Marlene- Interesting information for military personal. Just a note to the wise, do not give your kids any form of cough syrups of any kind. They are trying to remove them ALL from the shelves, but the drug makers are fighting it. Katerina

Actually, Katerina, I am fighting it as well.  I only give a little to Adam at night when he has a really bad cough or cold.  We follow the directions to the letter so no overdose should occur, and it does seem to help him. 

The reason they are taking it off store shelves (and did for a couple of days) is that they say there is conflicting evidence on whether it is helpful or not (so they are weighing on the side of it not helping), and they are comparing that with how many stupid parents either don't read the directions or don't know their child's weight and overdose them.  I agree that every parent who chooses to give their child any kind of non-prescription drug should be extremely careful.

Wow, I didn't even realize that I got a group feature for this one, cool!  Thanks!