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Help us growVivienne Machi is a reporter based in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2014, she has written for Foreign Policy, Defense News, National Defense Magazine, Defense Daily, Via Satellite, and the Dayton Daily News. She was named the Defence Media Awards’ best young defense journalist in 2020 .
Marriage counseling alongside soldiers from Special Operations Command was not what a military spouse imagined for her first trip to Europe.