Deployment

Deadlines for Sending Holiday Care Packages to Your Servicemembers Overseas

We CAN'T BELIEVE we're already to this point in 2018, I mean we were JUST drinking our pumpkin spice lattes… Read More

That First Deployment as a New Military Spouse

Obviously in your first year of marriage, you don't expect your spouse to be gone 6 months of it. Then… Read More

6 Things That Probably Won’t Happen During Deployment

Let me be real honest here. Me + deployments = embracing a special brand of mediocrity.   And, surprisingly, I’m… Read More

You Know Your Spouse Has Been Deployed Too Long When…

My husband will soon leave on his first deployment... Right now, he comes home almost every night, we sleep in… Read More

Does Military Deployment Get Easier with Each One?

I’ll never forget my husband’s first military deployment to Iraq. Scheduled to leave a couple of days after Christmas, the… Read More

Is Deployment A Badge of Honor?

By Kara Ludlow You knew this was coming. No self-respecting military spouse blogger would omit deployment, the granddaddy of all… Read More

What are the Chances of an Army Reserve Deployment?

Shared from thenest.com Choosing to serve in the Army Reserves allows a person to serve her country while maintaining the… Read More

The Deployment Cycle

By: Caitlin Acox At any given point in time, military spouses are sleeping alone. Some for just a few months. Some,… Read More

12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Travel and accommodations were provided by Warner Bros. Pictures. 12 Strong, from Warner Bros. Pictures, will release on January 19,… Read More

Post-deployment: The Expectations, the Reality, and the Growth

They’re home. After days, weeks, months, or years of paper chains, calendar cross-offs, or your 400th empty diet Dr. Pepper… Read More