Amy Bushatz

Amy Bushatz is the former executive editor of Military.com.

A reporter since 2003, Amy Bushatz joined Military.com in 2010 and grew into the role of Executive Editor. As a military spouse, she is passionate about military life issues, and is a devoted subject matter expert on all military benefits. Amy is also a mountain and road runner based in Alaska where she hosts and produces the Humans Outside podcast and spends time adventuring with her family.

Amy is a 2018 recipient of Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS) Patriotism Award and a 2019 graduate of the George W. Bush Institute’s Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program. She holds a master's degree in public leadership from the University of San Francisco.

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Caption: A Marine spouse shoots a target with a M9 9mm pistol. (U.S. Marine Corps)

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The Barnes family poses in front of their post-military retirement home in South Carolina. (Photo Courtesy of Terri Barnes)

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(Photo: Army and Air Force Exchange service graphic.)

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Senior Airman Joseph Tharp, a 9th Operations Support Squadron flight equipment technician, hugs his pregnant wife Sarah. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Bobby Cummings)

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The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in the French national colors red, white and blue in honor of the victims of the terror attacks last Friday in Paris, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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A Belgian Army soldier patrols a main shopping street in Brussels on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse)

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Police forces patrol near the landmark, the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, Nov. 17, 2015. France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said that authorities carried out "128 police raids last night.” (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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Rescue workers and medics work by victims in a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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U.S. Army Pfc. Walker Prinz, center, cuts wood at a Monrovia medical unit near Tubmanburg, Liberia, Oct. 24, 2014. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson)

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Caption: Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (right) and Col. Brain DeSantis, a Division spokesman (left) conduct a Nov. 13 video teleconference in Liberia with reporters at Fort Campbell, Ky.

Leaders Not Sure if Troops on Ebola Deployments Will Receive R&R

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