Your Five-Step Pre-Deployment Financial Checklist This five-step pre-deployment financial checklist can safeguard your finances during deployment and ensure a smoother...
The Emotional Cycle of Deployment: Military Family Perspective The emotional cycle of an extended deployment, six months or greater, is readily divided into five distinct stages. These...
Deployment: Worst Case Scenario It's not good to think about, but it must be prepared for. If you die while you are on duty, you will want to make sure that...
'My Mom Does Not Like It': Inside A Nighttime 82nd Airborne Jump as Troops Wait to Deploy There's pride within the 82nd's ranks, serving in the division tasked with being America's shock troops.
3 Ways to Change Your Military Marriage Story If marriage is a bookshelf, then a military marriage can be a collection of loneliness.
The Emotional Cycle of Deployment: Pre-Deployment The pre-deployment stage is characterized alternately by denial and anticipation of loss.
Predeployment Checklist There seems to be no consistency in the military regarding predeployment checklists. While some units take this task very...
Deployment: Financial Preparation Being financially prepared is a big part of overall deployment readiness. Here are some basic guidelines that should be...
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...
Why Are We Fighting So Much Before Deployment? A spouse feels overwhelmed as her husband prepares for the first deployment of their young marriage.
Marine Raiders Ordered to Stop Wearing Multicam Uniforms to Align Elite Unit with Broader Service The special operations Marines will abandon the pattern worn by units such as Army Special Forces on Jan. 1, a spokesman said...
Navy Confirms Just One More Chief, Officer Punished for Illicit Wi-Fi Network on Warship Between the investigation and Fields' update, the publicly acknowledged sum total of punishments meted out for the Wi-Fi...
His Country Trained Him to Fight. Then He Turned Against It. More Like Him Are Doing the Same The number of U.S. service members and veterans who radicalize make up a tiny fraction of a percentage point of the millions...
Shaw Air Force Base Dining Halls Are Closed Until 2026. Relatives Worry Young Airmen Aren't Getting Healthy Meals. Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina has not had an operating dining hall for airmen in nearly a year and a half, leaving...
Navy Aviators Killed in Growler Crash near Mount Rainier Were Decorated Combat Veterans Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, a naval aviator, both 31 years old and...