Stories Worth Telling Like other underrepresented populations, military spouse history is largely an oral history, in which stories, if not...
Do Good News Stories Accurately Represent Military Families? Military families don't typically get a lot of press coverage compared to their service members, whose stories are featured...
Pillow Talk Is Policy: How the DoD Relies upon Senior Military Spouses Commanding officer spouses often serve as unofficial advisers to the spouses of those under their partner's command.
Will the Tenant Bill of Rights Fix Privatized Military Housing? The Tenant Bill of Rights outlined 18 provisions designed to give military families leverage if they found themselves stuck...
How Military Families Put Their Stamp on the Pentagon It is military spouses and veterans who deserve the credit for the incremental improvements to military family quality-of...
Could Military Spouses Fix DoD's Recruitment Problem? While the rest of the nation has limped away from the 1950s housewife trope, policies that govern military families have not.
Is the DoD Dependent on Military Families? Officially, the Department of Defense sees military spouses and children as "dependents'' on military paperwork, but the term...
Watching the Emotional 'Bluey' Episode 'The Sign' as a Military Parent A recent episode of the beloved Australian cartoon may strike a nerve with military families.
Senators Urge 'Immediate and Decisive Action' by Pentagon on Child Abuse Policies Following Report A group of senators is demanding answers from the Pentagon on how its branches handle allegations of child abuse and...
Better Access to Child Care for Military Families Is Aim of New Senate Proposal Military families struggling to access child care because of staffing shortages at base day cares or because of frequent...
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...