Don’t Live Like He Deploys Tomorrow "Live like he deploys tomorrow." Cute -- but misguided. Here's how to live instead.
Just Can’t With the Thanksgiving Feast This Year? Do This Instead Typically, we host a parade of people. But not this year. This year I just can't.
No, Deployments Are Not All the Same In our eagerness to do the right thing by battle-scarred troops, we have convinced ourselves that every military member who...
'Typical Wifey' Irritates Vets Your own overconfidence is easy to forgive. But overconfidence is insufferable when found in others -- especially in the...
To Those Who Show No Mark of War Dear Sailor: I was unspeakably rude to you at a party last week. Will you please forgive me?
16 Deployment Moments Civilians Know Nothing About With National Day of the Deployed on October 26, we wanted to pause for a moment to remember all of those who have gone...
Dinnertime Hacks When Soldier Isn't Home It's important for families to eat dinner together, but that's hard to manage when your service member is deployed.
Life on Call: Technology to the Rescue One of the biggest problems in military life is that when he calls, I have to drop everything because I can't call him back.
Watch This, Not That, During Deployment Deployments are hard enough. Use our list to make sure you're watching the right movies to get you through.
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.
Troubled USS Boxer Returns Home 10 Days into Deployment Due to Maintenance Issue The maintenance-embattled USS Boxer is heading back to San Diego just 10 days after deploying due to an engineering issue, as...
On Newly Quiet Stretch of US-Mexico Border, Louisiana Soldiers Sit Around, Watch and Wait The Louisiana soldiers are spaced in groups of two or three over the 1.5 mile, 400-yard-wide strip of land.
How the Army Made a Deal with UFL Football and The Rock Despite Doubts over the Sponsorship's Worth The roughly $11 million deal set the service up to be the premier partner for the league's inaugural season, which started...
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight A Military.com investigation into military day care centers revealed that service branch rules generally prioritize...
'Restore Real Value': House Panel Wants to Give Junior Enlisted Troops 15% Pay Raise The recommendation on boosting paychecks is part of the final report from the House Armed Services Committee's military...