35 Tried and True Ways to Keep Your Sanity While He's Deployed Use and abuse the following tips, not listed in any particular order of importance, to help you make that the time in between...
Deployment: Financial Preparation Being financially prepared is a big part of overall deployment readiness. Here are some basic guidelines that should be...
How to Talk to Your Children After Deployment Kids often say the time after their parent returns home is the toughest part of a deployment for them. It's because of all...
Reintegration Concerns Are Normal, Expected Part of Deployment Cycle If you've redeployed recently and seem to have trouble fitting into the family routine again, there's one important factor...
Spouse Welcomes Home Husband Isabel Hodge writes about her husband’s homecoming and shares his thoughts on what servicemembers most value when they return...
Diary of the Last Two Weeks of Deployment To outsiders, the last two weeks of deployment ought to be happy, easy, simple weeks of anticipation. Those days are never...
What A Grateful Nation Must Do Now One of the things I think we Americans have to understand is how historical timing can affect the return from war.
Why 'Stay Busy' Isn't the Best Deployment Advice Popular deployment advice includes "stay busy," but is that really the best thing to do?
Avoid These 6 Homecoming Mistakes Homecoming, the day your spouse comes home from deployment, the day you have been waiting for, is finally here. Don't let it...
10 Practical Intimacy Tips for Couples Experiencing Deployment How do you fight for your marriage in a lifestyle that often feels as though it is setting you up for failure?
Tricare Patients Fear Losing Preferred Health Care Providers Amid Contract Transition Doctors and patients said they have been caught off guard by the shift from Health Net Federal Services to TriWest Healthcare...
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.
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...