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Squeeze Every Dime From MyCAA
Military.com
If you have been a milspouse for more than a year, you have probably heard a lot of complaints about MyCAA, the Defense Department’s tuition assistance tool for military spouses. The complaints are all true -- MyCAA offers less money than it used to. The limited rank availability can make starting and finishing your degree (while balancing the financial needs of your household) while you’re still eligible a little tricky. Also, if you want t... more
Teach Kids Financial Responsibility
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON -- April is both the Month of the Military Child and Financial Literacy Month, so it’s a good time to shine a spotlight on teaching children financial responsibility, said Barbara Thompson, the Pentagon’s director of the office of family policy/children and youth in a joint interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel. "These are life skills that you don't want to learn when you're in trouble as an adult,” ... more
An Exit Interview Helps Kids PCS
Military.com
Many schools serving military families provide new students with a warm welcome when they enroll. They may even link them up with other students or monitor their transition into the school in other ways. Not many schools give the same level of attention to students when it comes time for them to transfer out. This can also be a stressful time for children, filled with anxiety over whether they’ll make friends at the new school, whether they’l... more
Don't Take Kids Out of School
Military.com
Do not take your kids out of school. No matter what the demands of your most recent move or deployment schedule or the current holiday period might be, the view from top administrators is that military kids belong in school. Marilee Fitzgerald, director of the Department of Defense Education Activity, strongly believes that one thing parents need to do in order to make a difference in their military child’s education is to stress the importan... more
Sarah Smiley: Making a Difference
Our 41st Dinner with the Smileys guest, former Maine governor and current candidate for Sen. Olympia Snowe's Senate seat, Angus King, lives in Brunswick, Maine. At dinner, between answering Ford's tough questions ("Why do people call Maine a liberal state when we always have Republican senators?"), King shared with us how much the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission's (BRAC) decision to shut down NAS Brunswick has aff... more
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