A military spouse wants to redefine what having strength looks like.
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A Military Spouse’s Journey From Annoyance to Advocacy
A military spouse seeks to change an antiquated narrative.
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When It’s Hard to Be a Military Mom
It was one thing to be a military spouse during peacetime. It was quite another to have a spouse and eventually a child serve during a war.
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Why Isn’t Infertility in Military Women a Bigger Conversation?
For female service members, putting off children and career advancement are linked. Yet, research shows that military women are at a higher risk of infertility. What is the Defense Department doing about this dilemma?
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Running for My Life After Returning From War
How a high-functioning facade masked a critical bout of depression for a former Army sergeant.
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From One Battle to Another. “A New Fight I Never Expected.”
A gunnery sergeant grapples with his love of deployments during a time when his family needs him at home.
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My Father Died Over 60 Years Ago. I Feel That I‘m Just Now Meeting Him
His father served in World War II and remade his life, one that a son is finally discovering.
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Forced Pivots and Finding Purpose as a Military Spouse
How the founder of the National Military Spouse Network reignited her career after years out of the workforce
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“It Is Cancer”—Reflecting on My Husband’s Diagnosis After Going to War
In the VA’s emergency room, Molly Pearl and her husband made the imperceptible shift between soldier and patient, wife and caregiver.
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Crossing the Line of Departure as a Woman in Special Operations
Jackie Munn and her husband quietly said their last goodbyes before she boarded the C-17 headed to Afghanistan and her Cultural Support Team assignment.
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She Needs a Background Check and a Day Pass to Visit Her Father’s Grave, Part 2
Kelly McHugh-Stewart picked up her ritual black coffee and red carnations, one for each member of her growing family, to lay at her father’s gravesite.
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She Needs a Background Check and a Day Pass to Visit Her Father’s Grave, Part 1
Kelly McHugh-Stewart lost her military ID when she turned 21, and in turn, the ability to easily visit her father’s grave at Fort Leavenworth.
