Deployment: Are You A Fool To Hope? Stay positive! Stay busy! Sometimes, those bits of military spouse advice sound helpful. Sometimes, they sound like the...
Who Needs To See Combat Video? Questions have been raised about the use of video troops take in the war zone. Who benefits from these videos? How should...
What Military Spouses Need to Know About Red Cross Emergency Messages The American Red Cross has been helping military families deal with the challenges of military life for more than 140 years.
3 Ways to Change Your Military Marriage Story If marriage is a bookshelf, then a military marriage can be a collection of loneliness.
Deployment Didn't Keep This Soldier Bride from Love She was planning her wedding when she got orders to deploy. Then her fiance got orders. The wedding was planned on the fly.
How to Handle Holiday Separations For some military families, holidays can be yet another reminder that a deployed family member is not at home.
Keeping Up with the News If you find yourself reciting this question in your sleep, you've come to the right place for answers. Communication is...
Until Deployment Do Us Part There was no chapel, no white dress, no rings. For Army soldiers Colleen McNulty and Jorge Villalobos, the wedding was in a...
Facing the Deployment Curse Head On If your spouse has ever deployed you know about the Deployment Curse. Here's how to face it.
Predeployment Checklist There seems to be no consistency in the military regarding predeployment checklists. While some units take this task very...
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...
Trump Administration Threatens No Back Pay for Federal Workers in Shutdown President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.
Teen Cadet Says He Was Beaten, Concussed at Camp at Aberdeen Proving Ground In early August 2022, 17-year-old Nathanael Royal called his parents and begged them to bring him home before he got attacked...
The Civil War Battle Where a West Point Professor Defeated His Confederate Student The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...