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...
Foundation Preserves Memories for Families Experiencing Deployments Having a loved one go off to war or return from war can be very emotional for families. Many are so overwhelmed that taking...
'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.
New Login System Coming for Defense Department and Some VA Websites The old DS Logon system will be retired in favor of the more secure myAuth system.
‘Blood-Curdling Screams’: Marine Veteran Helps Stop Walmart Mass Stabbing with Shopping Cart Matthew Kolakowski had just left the Walmart checkout lane when a worker screamed that a man had a knife.
Virginia Governor Demands Richmond Pay Wrongfully Convicted Navy Vet $5.8M Under a new state law, the city of Richmond, Virginia, owes Marvin Grimm $5.8 million, matching a sum the state paid for the...
Ford GPW: The Forgotten Military Jeep Think you know Jeeps? Think again. Buckle up for the story of how Ford helped win World War II and create an automotive icon...