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...
Army Division Bars Leaders from Bothering Their Soldiers After Work Hours Maj. Gen. David Doyle, commander of the Fort Carson, Colorado-based 4th Infantry Division, issued a memo last week barring...
Marine Corps Creates Billet to Keep Dual-Military Families Together During Stressful Moves The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in...
Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation The Defense Department has publicly acknowledged that during the Vietnam War era it stored Agent Orange at the Naval...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...
A Group Aims to Rebuild Tun Tavern, Birthplace of the Marines, as a Tavern and Restaurant National Park Service rangers in the historic district field questions all day from visitors. One of the most-asked is:...