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...
Air Force Intel Officer Had Hundreds of Classified and Secret Files at His Florida Home A retired Air Force intelligence officer accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors last year admitting to illegally...
A General Warned of an Impending War with China. Airmen Under His Command Say it Was 'Inappropriate' Mike Minihan, a four-star general who has led Air Mobility Command since 2021, has been known for his loud, proud and high...
Base Retires Working Dog After a Half-Decade Sniffing Out Threats, Including 7 Million Pounds of Narcotics Gombi received two awards for her service at her retirement and adoption ceremony.
Navy Ends 'Gruesome' Testing on Sheep After PETA Protests An animal rights group says that it has successfully lobbied the Navy to end a pair of studies that involved subjecting sheep...
The Latest Document the Military Is Hiding Behind Handling Rules: Parental Leave The CUI label is being applied inconsistently and, some critics argue, arbitrarily to keep some documents from being broadly...