Meet Undine Lasater, a military spouse whose journey began with excitement and challenges when she married a Major in the U.S. Army in 2010.
Their first major shift was relocating from the Philippines to Hawaii due to a permanent change of station (PCS) order, where Undine had to press pause on her career and adapt to a new country without family support.
“As a military spouse, it’s very challenging, but also very exciting," she said. "Your life is in constant movement, and you need to make constant adjustments to your career. But it’s exciting in the sense that you see new places and meet new people. And it’s an opportunity for your children to learn new things.”
In the following 13 years, Undine moved three more times with her two children and experienced her husband's deployment to Iraq. It wasn't until he retired from the U.S. Army and took a civilian job on a base in Germany that Undine found her way to the Red Cross.
“I saw a poster somewhere on base that the Red Cross was re...