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...
On Memorial Day, I'm Remembering the Friend Who Saved My Life in Iraq Memorial Day is our promise to our serving men and women risking their lives daily that we will remember always.
We Broke Our Promise to Take Care of Gold Star Families There is an unspoken promise America has whispered to service members and their families for centuries: If something happens...
19.5% Pay Raise for Junior Enlisted Troops Approved by House Panel A 19.5% pay hike for junior enlisted service members next year is one step closer to reality after the House Armed Services...
Navy Gave Combat Action Ribbon to 7 Ships as More Details of Red Sea Combat Emerge The Carney, which returned home earlier this week, was the only ship the Navy publicly acknowledged had been awarded the...
Air Force General Charged with Sexual Crimes Has Retirement Request Denied by Service Secretary The secretary's decision means Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart, only the second Air Force general in history to be charged with a...