Deployed Dad, New Baby: 12 Ways to Bring Them Together How do you keep new parents close to their babies when they are stationed thousands of miles away?
3 Ways to Change Your Military Marriage Story If marriage is a bookshelf, then a military marriage can be a collection of loneliness.
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.
Gatekeeping Dad From the Kids We want the newly returned servicemember to take on some kid duties. Then, he does it wrong and we pick him to pieces.
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...
Reintegration: The Pushy Houseguest Stage One military wife refers to the whole deployment cycle as "Wait-Honeymoon-Suck."
Sarah Smiley: Post-Deployment Bliss? We are in that post-deployment period -- a honeymoon, of sorts -- when nothing else registers or matters except being...
How to Welcome Your Soldier Home How do you deal with the challenges of homecoming? The real challenge is life after deployment.
How to Sleep With Someone New When You're Already Married to Him This is not about sex. Its about how to sleep with someone again after you've spent a lot of time not sleeping with them.
Here's What You Need to Know About Reintegration You’ve spent months looking forward to this moment: Reunion. But after reunion comes reintegration -- and while both are...
Here Are the Air Force's New Uniform Rules The new regulations change a variety of rules ranging from saluting decorum and patches on certain uniforms to allowing...
Army Identifies Command Sergeant Major Who Was Killed Alongside 3 Children The Army has identified Command Sgt. Maj. Carlos Evans as one of four victims killed in a shooting at another sergeant major...
The Tragic, Conflicting and Now Politicized Tale of a US Sailor Sitting in a Japanese Prison Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis is far from the only American military employee to face a Japanese legal system that places a high...
VA Secretary Swats Down Idea to Cut VA Disability Pay for Wealthier Vets The concept was floated as an idea by the Congressional Budget Office but was not a formal recommendation.
Person Shot After Driving Through Fort Riley Gate Fort Riley Military Police received a call at 6:50 a.m. about an incident at Trooper Gate, the southwestern entrance through...