Managing Holiday Finances When a Spouse Is Deployed Holiday stress can be even greater when your spouse is deployed. Here's how to make things better.
Don’t Live Like He Deploys Tomorrow "Live like he deploys tomorrow." Cute -- but misguided. Here's how to live instead.
Just Can’t With the Thanksgiving Feast This Year? Do This Instead Typically, we host a parade of people. But not this year. This year I just can't.
No, Deployments Are Not All the Same In our eagerness to do the right thing by battle-scarred troops, we have convinced ourselves that every military member who...
'Typical Wifey' Irritates Vets Your own overconfidence is easy to forgive. But overconfidence is insufferable when found in others -- especially in the...
To Those Who Show No Mark of War Dear Sailor: I was unspeakably rude to you at a party last week. Will you please forgive me?
16 Deployment Moments Civilians Know Nothing About With National Day of the Deployed on October 26, we wanted to pause for a moment to remember all of those who have gone...
Dinnertime Hacks When Soldier Isn't Home It's important for families to eat dinner together, but that's hard to manage when your service member is deployed.
Life on Call: Technology to the Rescue One of the biggest problems in military life is that when he calls, I have to drop everything because I can't call him back.
Watch This, Not That, During Deployment Deployments are hard enough. Use our list to make sure you're watching the right movies to get you through.
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...