MCCS: Hearts Apart Deployment Support Group Marine Corps Community Services offers a Hearts Apart deployment support group, open to all spouses of a Marine or Sailor.
Pre-Deployment Relationships: Children Spending time together with your children prior to deployment is important; here are a few ways to maximize the experience.
How Family Can Stay Organized During a Deployment If your servicemember is closest to you, you may be entrusted with important documents and serve as an emergency contact.
Marine Infantryman Becomes Father While Deployed "Knowing he wasn't going to be able to be with me in the delivery room to experience her birth was miserable."
Deployment: Family Safety Tips Listed below are some ideas that will help reduce the risk of danger and, if followed, will help ease the anxiety associated...
Co-occuring Disorders: Impact of Deployment Knowing the challenges that can occur while transitioning out of the military will help you prepare for them.
Freeze Your Credit While You're Deployed You need to be completely focused while on deployment, so secure your financial situation at home by freezing your credit.
How Family Can Help Prepare for a Deployment More than anything else, your service member needs to know that she has your unconditional love and support.
Deployed Civilians Exemplify Total Force Mindset Two civilian contractors gave two active duty personnel the opportunity to remain home with their families during the...
Communicating With Children During a Deployment Think about how to communicate as a family with your service member. Perhaps you want to send him videos of the children.
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.
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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...