Knobloch shares insights on military family transition communication Tabi Jozwick, Voice Correspondent Voice Correspondent MACOMB — On Wednesday, Leanne Knobloch shared her insights via Zoom on how military families used communication to help service members to transition from deployment to reintegration. Knobloch, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Communication professor, delivered "Navigating the New Normal: Communication of Military Families during the Transition from Deployment to Reintegration" as part of the 30th annual Wayne N. Thompson Scholar Lecture hosted by Western Illinois University’s Department of Communication. The U of I communications professor started by explaining “relational turbulence theory” and how it affected military couples.