How to Beat the Groundhog Days of Deployment As a military spouse going through deployment, I often feel like Bill Murray’s character in the movie Groundhog Day. It’s...
Summer Traditions That Can Survive Your PCS We’re creating our own traditions and embracing the opportunities that the Army’s moves have offered us -- and we can keep...
SPCA Helps MilFams Keep Their Pets The military will not pay to move your pets during a PCS, and the cost can be hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
Sarah Smiley: Post-Deployment Bliss? We are in that post-deployment period -- a honeymoon, of sorts -- when nothing else registers or matters except being...
6 Military Spouse Rites of Passage There's no denying that being a military spouse involves different situations than living life married to a civilian.
How to Sleep With Someone New When You're Already Married to Him This is not about sex. Its about how to sleep with someone again after you've spent a lot of time not sleeping with them.
How to Talk to Your Children After Deployment Kids often say the time after their parent returns home is the toughest part of a deployment for them. It's because of all...
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...