United Through Reading: Our Favorite Stories We love to hear about how a United Through Reading DVD — a video-recording of a deployed service member reading a storybook —...
What Does Your Spouse Take to War, and Why? When your spouses packs for deployment, what interesting or one-of-a-kind items do they take with them?
Why Does It Feel So Different? My girls started school yesterday and I kept thinking, "This is so much harder with my husband deployed! If only he were here...
Why Does Getting Out Feel Like Quitting? Why does thinking about getting out of the military make me feel like a quitter? My husband meant the military to be a career...
Answering the Tough Question: "Why Does My Dad Have to Go?" How do you answer that question? Telling him that his dad had to go away for schools, training, and deployments because it...
I Promise, We're Not Living a "Lavish" Lifestyle How dare you call our military life lavish!!! These family members know exactly how that “lavish” money was earned. They also...
What Happens In The Field ... What happens in the field doesn't stay in the field. An experienced Army spouse once told me that what happens in the field...
My Boyfriend Joined the Army. What Happens Now? A woman is a bit daunted by her boyfriend joining the military, though she's relieved he isn't in the infantry.
Do Fathers Need Longer Paternity Leave? Do fathers really need a dedicated period of time to be home with their newborn child? Studies say yes, but what does that...
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...
