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...
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...