Wife of Camp Pendleton Marine nominated for Spouse of Year

Camp Pendleton Spouse Recognized for Service to Military Families
Camp Pendleton volunteer, and spouse to a Marine, Liz Snell has been nominated for 2014 Military Spouse of the Year. Voting for the honor starts today.
Ocean Side Camp Pendleton Patch
Posted by Gina Tenorio (Editor)
January 21, 2014

Military Spouses of Strength recently announced that its’ founder Camp Pendleton's own Liz Snell has been nominated for 2014 Military Spouse of the Year.

The award was created by Military Spouse magazine in 2008 to honor military spouses of all ranks and from all branches of service, according to its creators.

“More than a million military spouses support and maintain the home front while our service members defend this great nation,” magazine staff wrote on their website. “The Military Spouse of the Year award recognizes military spouses’ important contributions and unwavering commitment to the military community and our country.”

"Our military spouses have endured supporting their service members through nearly thirteen years of war. Thirteen years of combat deployments and other challenges that uniquely face military families. In a recent Military Spouses of Strength survey, nearly 91 percent of those surveyed stated they had dealt with a bout of depression, of that number 73 percent felt it was caused to deployment, 83 percent sought out mental health support and of those who didn't seek support 80 percent said they didn't feel like they were in a bad enough place to do so. As a community, we need to change the dialogue about mental health related issues. We need to begin taking preventative measures, and not react to situations, " said MSoS Founder, Liz Snell.

This year Liz is more determined than ever to continue her fight on raising awareness of mental health issues while crushing the stigma that accompanies diagnosis the of depression, anxiety, and PTSD among others within the military community. read more here