11 Holiday Hacks for Deployment Parenting Must-Have Parenting is never easy and the holidays make it even harder. Here are 11 tricks that take away a bit of stress.
The Stupid Stuff of Deployment Wears on Families It's the stupid stuff that crushes us. The unnecessary stuff. The big stuff, we can do. But the little stuff chokes us out.
Would You Give Your Spouse a Reintegration Cheat Sheet? We all have things we do to get ready for a spouse returning from a deployment. But we often get angry when he doesn't notice...
Should You Keep Secrets While Your Military Spouse Is Gone? There are two main schools of thought on keeping a deployed spouse in the loop on problems at home.
Reintegration: The Pushy Houseguest Stage One military wife refers to the whole deployment cycle as "Wait-Honeymoon-Suck."
Army Growth May Not Keep Pace with Deployments: General Even as the Army prepares to grow, Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson still worries about units not having enough time between...
Military Spouses Are Not Single Moms Let a military spouse murmur the tiniest complaint about missing a deployed servicemember, and the Single Mom is whipped out...
Helping Military Kids Get Through Multiple Deployments At any given time, 225,000 military children have a parent deployed. Here are tips to help them cope.
The Emotional Cycle of Deployment: Deployment This stage is the period from the Soldier's departure from home through the first month of the deployment.
Technology: I Think I'll Keep (Some of) It "I had just finished saying that technology isn't always a good thing. Then twice in a week, I was proven wrong."
Lessons from the Air Force Kitchen Police: Volunteer for Everything. Even Pots and Pans When Ed Meagher reported to Air Force basic training on June 15, 1966, he was a 19-year-old college dropout. Despite two...
2 US Navy Pilots Shot Down over Red Sea in Apparent 'Friendly Fire' Incident, US Military Says Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft, with one suffering minor injuries.
Syrian Soldiers Distance Themselves from Assad in Return for Promised Amnesty Some members of the defunct military told The Associated Press that they had joined Assad's forces because it meant a stable...
How the Marine Corps Is Changing to Keep Talented Marines in the Service For decades, the Marine Corps incurred a "remarkably high turnover rate" among its first-term Marines as it prioritized, and...
Troop Pay Safe After Congress Approves Extension of Government Funding Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March and...