When children start preschool, most parents meet one another in the parking lot while dropping off or picking up their kids. This was not the case for Ella and myself, both of us moms who live in Owosso, Michigan. I work here at home, while she works abroad in the Middle East at the moment. A 31B Military Police Officer for the United States Army, Sergeant Ella-Rae Crittenden, is a wife and a mother of two, being all she can be for her family and her country.