When Every Day Is Memorial Day Twelve days before Christmas 2011, Kryste Buoniconti had to tell her children their dad was gone forever. The widow reflects...
7 Ways Military Pay and Benefits Provide an Advantage in an Uncertain Economy In an environment of sticky inflation, sky-high housing costs and a whole lot of uncertainty, military life has some solid...
Arlington Horse-Drawn Funerals to Remain Suspended as Families Grapple with Burial Arrangements The Army says it will continue the suspension of horse-drawn funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery after roughly a...
VA Benefits Likely Won't Cover All of a Veteran's Funeral Costs A veteran's surviving family members may be caught off guard if they expect the VA to cover all the costs of a funeral or...
Housing and Child Care in the Same Building? Lawmakers Want Study of Idea to Ease Twin Problems Facing Troops As service members struggle with both housing availability and child care access, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers thinks they...
Military Must Focus on Efforts to Keep Its Child Care Employees to Shorten Waitlists, Watchdog Says In 2022, turnover within the DoD child care sector ranged from 34% at Marine Corps child care facilities to 50% turnover...
'Diabolical Lies': What NFL Player Harrison Butker (and Military Leaders) Get Wrong About Working Women Butker's vision of a woman's one true calling is something that thousands of military spouses are currently experiencing. And...
5 Reasons to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early Rather Than Wait Over the years, one of the most common questions I’ve received from clients has been, “Should we pay off our mortgage or...
Troops Are Reimbursed for Shipping Breast Milk During Temporary Duty But Not Moves. That Could Change. The Pentagon is weighing a change to its Joint Travel Regulations to reimburse for costs related to shipping frozen breast...
Military Spouse Appreciation Day Is Here. Will Anybody Actually Notice? The United States government has designated Friday, May 10, as Military Spouse Appreciation Day, a day to recognize the...
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...
