Spouse Confession: I'm the Worst at Deployment Rituals Last year during my soldier's deployment to Iraq I ran out of things to send him within three weeks of him leaving. He was...
4 Easy Ways to Take Care of Yourself Learning how to take care of yourself, what we call "self-care," is a critical necessity in life because, without it, the...
Deployment Confessions From a Brand New Army Wife One Army wife shares the things she's discovered are normal about deployment that she wished someone would have told her...
4 Tips to Celebrate Valentine's Day the Military Spouse Way Ready for Valentine's Day alone? Resist the temptation to crawl into bed, and do one of these instead.
Tips for Guiding Kids Through Deployment Spouses at home understand the waiting game of deployment, but kids don't always. Here are some ideas on how to guide your...
Wait, It's Not 'Our' Deployment? Everyone seems to have an opinion about how military spouses should act -- what they should say, what they should wear and...
3 Ways Deployments Can Bring You Closer as a Couple Long-distance relationships get such a bad reputation, but I’ve met so many great military couples who have made them work...
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...
Dear Murphy: I Hate You and Your Law As a military spouse, I know all too well about Murphy's Law: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong after your spouse leaves...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...