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...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
'It's OK Not to Be OK': Special Operations Wing Orders Stand-Down After Roger Fortson's Police Killing The Air Force special operations wing in Florida where Senior Airman Roger Fortson served before he was shot and killed by...
VA Says It Can't Change New Urn, Plaque Benefit that Precludes Future Burials in National Veteran Cemeteries Both the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs and the National Funeral Directors Association lodged...
'Unspeakably Cruel': Army Ranger Sentenced for Murdering Security Guard in Washington State A U.S. Army Ranger formerly stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for beating a...