AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare has published a Spanish-language version of the popular book Your Soldier, Your Army, titled Su Soldado, Su Ejército: Guía Para Padres.

Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents’ Guide was written by Vicki Cody, wife of Army Vice Chief of Staff GEN Richard Cody and the mother of two Apache helicopter pilots with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Mrs. Cody turns her own 30-year experience as the wife and mother of Soldiers into advice and consolation for other parents with deploying children. The book’s tone is warm and confidential with an honest mix of pride and tribulation, a tone that appeals to concerned parents. Mrs. Cody covers the whole gamut of deployments, from the preparation through the endurance to the homecoming, and includes a personal view into Army life and an explanation of Army terminology. Sidebars feature tips and facts about the Army. Since its publication in 2005, more than 120,000 copies of the English version have been distributed.

Angel Cushing, wife of an Army noncommissioned officer and vice chairman of Operation Homefront Alaska, first suggested the need for a Spanish version of Your Soldier, Your Army. The translation was done by the Comprehensive Language Center in Arlington, VA. Two Spanish-speaking Army officers, Tony Cruz and Maria Zumwalt, volunteered to read through the translation to ensure that it is as helpful, comforting and accurate as the original.

The book is dedicated in part to Cruz’s nephew, SSG David A. Mejias of the 2d Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. A young Hispanic-American Soldier from San Juan, Puerto Rico, he was killed in Iraq while the book was in production.

To order a copy of Your Soldier, Your Army in English or Spanish, e-mail ILWPublications@ausa.org; call 1-800-336-4570 or 703-841-4300, ext. 630; fax ILW Publication Requests at 703-236-2929; or write to AUSA’s Institute of Land Warfare, ATTN: Publication Requests, 2425 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201.