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Mar 14, 2023

Vet Tix has delivered 15 million tickets and counting to veterans and service members

Veteran Tickets Foundation has given away over 15 million tickets to veterans, service members and their families, and that number…

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 14, 2023

BYEllen Gustafson

Nov 11, 2022

How you can safeguard freedom with ‘Vet the Vote’

This past Tuesday, 18 year olds all over the United States cast ballots in a general election for the first…

BYEllen Gustafson

Nov 11, 2022

BYBrittany Sulc

Jul 25, 2022

6 tips to strengthen your marriage when you’re apart

Long-distance relationships get a pretty bad rap. You don’t get to see your partner for months on end. You have to trust them implicitly. Half the time, you live like you’re single. For many military families, long-distance marriage is a necessary…

BYBrittany Sulc

Jul 25, 2022

BYJessica Evans

Jul 21, 2022

The complete Yokota Air Base Guide

If a PCS to Yokota Air Base, Japan, is in your future but you don’t know where to start, don’t…

Friendship Festival attendees look at a U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender during Friendship Festival 2022, at Yokota Air Base

BYJessica Evans

Jul 21, 2022

BYJessica Evans

Jul 14, 2022

Top 9 campgrounds for military families

It’s road trip season! If the prices at the pump haven’t scared you off this time-honored tradition, we’ve rounded up…

BYJessica Evans

Jul 14, 2022

BYJessica Evans

Jul 7, 2023

The 7 best US Army installations for families

Check out this list of great spots to call home for a few years and add them to your PCS wish list when you are ready for a move.

BYJessica Evans

Jul 7, 2023

BYFatherly

Nov 30, 2020

32 small, nice things to do for family you can’t see this holiday season

The 2020 holiday season — particularly Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years — will be different. Much different. Common sense…

BYFatherly

Nov 30, 2020

BYTessa Robinson

Oct 25, 2020

6 of the top issues facing military families this election

Every four years, we have the opportunity and responsibility to make our voices heard. While elections are always important, this year feels particularly critical. A global pandemic. Heightened racial tensions. Upholding or repealing Supreme Court d…

BYTessa Robinson

Oct 25, 2020

BYMilitary Families Magazine

Jul 2, 2020

5 ways military families can celebrate the Fourth of July

While the Fourth of July may look a little different this year, you can still celebrate the holiday in style with virtual concerts, televised fireworks, a museum tour or a virtual run. Look up, and you may even catch a military flyover.

BYMilitary Families Magazine

Jul 2, 2020

BYMilitary Families Magazine

May 19, 2020

Organizations offer financial support for families impacted by COVID-19

Military support organizations have distributed thousands of dollars in financial assistance to service members and their families impacted by COVID-19, with services available for living expenses, emergencies, education and more. The application pr…

BYMilitary Families Magazine

May 19, 2020

BYBethaney Phillips

Apr 29, 2020

4 ways to help your kids through deployment

Training away from home is part of the military way. Schools, deployments, overnight sessions — all of these and more are a regular occurrence for military members. And then, on the other side of things, are their families, left to hold down the fo…

BYBethaney Phillips

Apr 29, 2020

BYMarla Bautista

Apr 29, 2020

Op tempo is killing our troops… and their families

In the era of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, training was frequent and necessary in order to maintain the level of combat readiness required to sustain and prevail in battle. While times have changed, our Operational Tempo (…

BYMarla Bautista

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

What it’s really like for military families when troops are deployed

#WWIII, #NoWarWithIran, and other trending Twitter hashtags from the past week reveal the anxiety people across the globe are feeling amid near-boiling-point tensions between the US and Iran. The US is sending 3,500 Army paratroopers to the M…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYMilitary Spouse

Apr 29, 2020

After 20 years of PCS, milspouse navigates ‘staying put’

I’ve developed an itch. No, not like that time in college. The itch to pull up stakes, un-circle the wagons and head West…or East…or…ok you get it. It’s time to move again. PCS. It’s a familiar feeling to m…

BYMilitary Spouse

Apr 29, 2020