How to Make the Most of the Holiday Season While Miles Apart Like so many military families this year, my military family faced some difficult decisions for the holidays. But, I want to...
Three Habits New Military Spouses Should Develop When I was a new Navy wife, coming straight from the Land of Oz, I didn’t know the first thing about the military lifestyle...
This is Why Commissary Shelves Are Often Empty Ever notice that commissary shelves are often mysteriously empty? Where are the people who add stuff to the shelves when they...
The 5 Stages of Commissary Shopping on Payday Oh, the commissary. We love you. We hate you. And mostly we're just afraid of you on or around the 1st and 15th of the month.
Military Lingo for New Military Spouses Remember your first day of foreign language class? That’s kind of how I felt when my husband came home from boot camp and...
Top 10 Things New Military Spouses Learn I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but marrying into the military is a bit different. The changes you face depend a lot on...
Top 10 Most Surprising Things for Military Newlyweds Marry a guy in uniform and you think that you are getting a guy ... wearing a uniform. I mean, seriously, how different can...
Welcome to the Military Spouse Newlywed Scavenger Hunt But starting married life in the military is like starting married life in a foreign country. Everything looks familiar, but...
The Unmarried Girl’s (or Guy’s) Guide to Deployment Based on personal experience, here's the “The Unmarried Girl’s (or Guy’s) Guide to Deployment,” a collection of vital tips...
Newlywed Deployment: Together Apart Newlyweds live together. This seems intuitively obvious. But if you're part of a military couple, you might be starting your...
The Email Chain Heard 'Round the Corps: Top Enlisted Leader Makes Surprise Visit to Corporal's Graduation Cpl. Andrew Hundley never expected fame, but after becoming a Marine Corps sensation overnight, he wields it with humility...
Retired Rear Admiral Who Served Under Trump Warns of Plans to Politicize Military Justice System Retired Rear Adm. Jim McPherson warned that the Trump administration and leaders in the Pentagon have politicized the...
Pentagon Proposes Ending 14 Advisory Panels, Including Historic Committee Focused on Women in the Services As part of a review to determine whether the boards provide value and contribute to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's vision...
Army Faces Backlash over Plan to Divert Barracks Funds to Border Mission The decision, reported last week by Military.com, would gut a key portion of the Army's Facilities Sustainment, Restoration...
US Soldier Gets 23 Years for Killing His Pregnant Wife with a Machete And Dumping Her in the Trash Pfc. Dewayne Johnson II pleaded guilty earlier in the week to voluntary manslaughter, obstruction of justice and providing...