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.
Coming Home to a Baby A soldier figures out how to adjust to first-time fatherhood after a long deployment, as his family welcomes him home.
How to Cope with Sudden Deployments Getting the call that your spouse or family member will be deploying suddenly, whether it's for two weeks or two days, can...
2 Sailor Deaths and Alcohol Restrictions Mark the Arrival of Navy Aircraft Carrier to Japan Home Port The USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived in Japan as part of its home port shift less than two weeks ago, but its...
Trump's Army Secretary Pick Is a Former Cavalry Officer, Yale Classmate of JD Vance President-elect Donald Trump has named businessman and Iraq War veteran Dan Driscoll as his pick for Army secretary...
Air Force's New Deployment Model Sparks Criticism, Staffing Concerns at Bases Some Air Force officials are concerned by the service's innovative deployment model, a new government watchdog report...
The Army Needs Hundreds of Officers to Leave Combat Arms Lieutenants currently branched in armor, infantry, combat engineer and field artillery can apply between Jan. 7 and Feb. 17...
The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs Criscrossing decades, continents and conflict, we’ve collected some of the most intriguing stories behind a variety of...