Deployed Dad, New Baby: 12 Ways to Bring Them Together How do you keep new parents close to their babies when they are stationed thousands of miles away?
3 Ways to Change Your Military Marriage Story If marriage is a bookshelf, then a military marriage can be a collection of loneliness.
Coming Home to a Baby A soldier figures out how to adjust to first-time fatherhood after a long deployment, as his family welcomes him home.
Gatekeeping Dad From the Kids We want the newly returned servicemember to take on some kid duties. Then, he does it wrong and we pick him to pieces.
Would You Give Your Spouse a Reintegration Cheat Sheet? We all have things we do to get ready for a spouse returning from a deployment. But we often get angry when he doesn't notice...
Reintegration: The Pushy Houseguest Stage One military wife refers to the whole deployment cycle as "Wait-Honeymoon-Suck."
Sarah Smiley: Post-Deployment Bliss? We are in that post-deployment period -- a honeymoon, of sorts -- when nothing else registers or matters except being...
How to Welcome Your Soldier Home How do you deal with the challenges of homecoming? The real challenge is life after deployment.
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.
Here's What You Need to Know About Reintegration You’ve spent months looking forward to this moment: Reunion. But after reunion comes reintegration -- and while both are...
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
Hegseth Says Wounded Knee Soldiers Will Keep Their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for...
The Italian WWII Frogmen Who Inspired the U.S. Navy SEALs While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined...
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
Democratic Candidate for Governor of New Jersey Pushes Back After GOP Questions Her Service Record Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race, is defending her Navy...