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- When you read thousands of resumes from transitioning military, veterans, senior leaders and spouses, you recognize these resumes are so earnestly written, they could not possibly disappear into the…
- Summer is a surprisingly good time of year to do the kind of nonwork that truly moves your military transition and job hunt forward. Here are some of the fun things you can do in the most slothful…
- Modern ships must be able to operate in different levels of conflict; from peacekeeping operations where the gun is used for firing warning shots to law-enforcement missions against pirates,…
- tom-phipott, Military Update: , Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s “Force of the Future” initiative is expected to include a unique Defense Digital Services office that, within a year, would hire up to 100 top designers, developers and…
- Britain's largest-ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be running exercises with Marine Joint Strike Fighters.
- Defense Tech network member Ned Conger passed this article along to us. I like it because I have great respect for the author, UPI Editor at Large Arnaud De Borchgrave, who has deep sources from both…
- This article was written by Kerry Hannon and furnished by USAA. Shakespeare's famed line from Hamlet, "Neither a borrow nor a lender be," never seemed more fitting. As the worst financial crisis in…
- tom-phipott, Military Update:, The Defense Department’s Executive Resale Board voted unanimously last week to recommend that military exchange services open online discount shopping to 19 million honorably discharged veterans…
- An Army spouse blogger in Vermont has gotten the military blogging community in a hot tizzy after writing a post stating that, her in opinion, Army National Guardsmen are not “by any stretch of the…, Feb. 10 Update:, The commander of her husband, who she refers to as "Hubs," has issued a public apology for "Hub's" comment in defense of his wife's position. Go here for all the details. Her husband, who she married…, Update:, After making major edits to her statements Feb. 10, the author appears to have completely killed her blog site. We don’t know much about this blogger’s background, but I see from her blog that she…, She says:, Guardsmen and their spouses are not really “Soldiers” and “Army wives” because they return to civilian life when they get home from deployment, and, when they return, won’t deploy for another four…, I say:, Wrong – or at least partially. While the stated DoD policy is that they only deploy once every four years, often specialty companies or those with high demand skill sets within a given Guard unit…, She says:, Guardsmen only go to drill one weekend a month, two weekends a year. Therefore they are not full time Soldiers and, therefore, their spouses are not really “Army wives.”, I say:, Wrong again. This used to be the case for Guard units, back in the old days when no one was supporting missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since that time units have been mobilized for up to 24 months…, She says:, So what if Guardsmen get PTSD? So do a lot of civilians for non-combat related issues., I say:, Huh? She’s right – PTSD is a problem associated with a lot of traumatic events. But she’s missing the point of the injury – it’s not the PTSD that’s deserving of respect, it’s how it was acquired.…, And I continue to feel:, What is most distasteful about her points is that they demonstrate a complete lack of understanding or ignorance of the lifestyle and potential hardships the spouses of Guardsmen must face. For…, Conclusion:, Sometimes spouses do dumb things, and sometimes those things make them look disrespectful or clueless to both the weight of military service and the burden of the home front. I’d call the post that…
- The U.S. Air Force now says it is investigating where and how often its members stay at various hotels around the world.