The Best Retail Military Discounts Whether you’re buying necessities or splurging on something fun, shopping is so much easier when great deals lower the totals...
What Is a FEDVIP Qualifying Life Event? To enroll in FEDVIP, you need to understand FEDVIP's qualifying life events (QLEs).
Off the Clock with Dr. Emma: The Army Ruined Our Marriage. Why Am I Grieving Our Divorce? Divorce asks us to grieve not only the person we married, but a version of ourselves too.
Here's What Gold Star Mother's Day Is All About "Gold Star mother:" It's a distinction that no mother wants, but one that many of them wear proudly.
Ribbons Of Gold: The Best Fall Color Drives Near Bases In 2025 For military families and veterans, trips like this are more than a way to pass the weekend. They’re a pause button, a reset...
Everything You Need to Know About the Tricare Dental Program When you marry into the military -- or your spouse joins the military -- you receive whole slew of benefits to go with your...
5 Things to Remember About Tricare's Open Enrollment Tricare's open enrollment system forever altered how military households change their Tricare coverage. Here's what you need...
Why September's Typical Stock Slump Shouldn't Scare You The “September Effect” makes for catchy headlines, but it shouldn’t dictate your financial behavior.
Fear and Uncertainty Followed the Sept. 11 Attacks. What Was Real and What Was a Good Headline? The switch from peacetime flipped overnight. Tension was abuzz as war ramped up, even on a training base without deploying...
Still Married to the Military: How Divorcing a Service Member Makes Custody a Minefield I was so busy figuring out divorced life that it didn’t occur to me that even though I was no longer married to a man in the...
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...