Mission Family: Spouses Need In-person and Online Mentors
Has the pendulum swung too far from face-to-face communication among military spouses? The youngest spouses have been raised on social...
Army Opens 19,700 Field Artillery Jobs to Women
"The Army has officially opened more than 19,700 field artillery jobs to women. Under policies now in effect, jobs in the...
Prince Harry and Michelle Obama Team Up for Wounded Warriors Program
(FORT BELVOIR, Va.) — Britain’s Prince Harry is teaming up with first lady Michelle Obama at a Virginia military base...
How to Deal with Cyber Misconduct
In addition to being a licensed independent counselor, proud Army wife and the 2015 Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of...
10 Reasons My Civilian Friends Are the Best
There are so many wonderful reasons to love being a military spouse, not least of which are the exotic duty...
Obama Announces New Limits On Standardized Testing
"In moderation, I believe smart, strategic tests can help us measure our kids’ progress in school. As a parent, I...
22 Inevitable Consequences of Being a Third Culture Kid
h/t “TCKs are the prototype citizens of the future.” -Ted Ward, sociologist, 1984 1. The question where...
These 3 Everyday Items Helped Me Conquer 15 PCS Moves
“Honey, I’ve received orders.” These words have been known to raise blood pressure, cause a grown woman to cry (either...
Exhausted families face news that troops will stay in Afghanistan
(CNN)Kathleen Rodgers remembers when her 22-year-old son called to tell her he'd enlisted in the Army. Then a junior in...
How Homeschooling has Brought Peace to This Military Family
Shared from homeschoolstrong.blogspot.com We made the choice to home school 5 years ago but continuing to home school has not...
13 Non-Alcoholic Ways to Mingle at Military Events
Dining Outs, Military Balls, Christmas Dinners… as military spouses we have more opportunities than most to dress up and go...
‘Safe and Sound’ Campaign, 150k-Strong, Draws Attention to Child Neglect
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 15, 2015) -- A Department of Defense-sponsored online campaign, called "Safe and Sound," launched Oct....
Spouse Support Challenging in a Changing World
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 13, 2015) -- Not so many years ago, military spouses talked over coffee, at Family...
7 Ways to Expect the Unexpected During Your Next PCS
The term “PCS” is just shy of being a "four-letter word" to a military family. You learn quickly to expect...
Obama Congratulates Navy on 240th Birthday
America's early lawmakers realized that in order to be a nation, they needed a Navy. This reality is not lost on...
PCS Roadmap: Trek Across Country With Confidence
Download your map here! Trek across the country wherever your order take you and have confidence that La Quinta Inn &...
Making Mil-Dollars out of Mil-Cents
In the words of the great Philosopher-Poet DJ Quik, “If it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense.” But for...
Proposal Would Allow Military Families to Split Their PCS
Newly proposed legislation would allow service members and their families to move to a new duty station at different times...
