If you’ve spent any time in military spouse circles, you’ve probably heard stories about the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP). Some say it limits where you can live. Others whisper that it will ruin your spouse’s career. Maybe you’ve even seen people hesitate to enroll because they’re worried about the consequences once their spouse retires.
Here’s the thing: EFMP exists for a reason. It helps make sure military families with special medical or educational needs get the right support.
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For military families facing fertility treatment questions, Tricare offers some of the best diagnostic care available at little to no cost. Bloodwork, hormone testing, imaging—these are all covered. The system is designed to identify reproductive issues early, so you can make the best decisions for your future.
But when it comes to advanced fertility treatments like IVF, IUI, or egg freezing, the options are more limited. That doesn’t mean you’re out of luck—it just means you need the right game plan.
Divorce is never easy. But in the military? It’s a legal, financial, and emotional labyrinth. Where do you file? Does the military spouse lose Tricare overnight? What are the entitlements as a military spouse?
For military spouses, the stakes are high, and the answers aren’t always clear. Unlike civilian divorce, military divorce comes with its own set of rules, restrictions, and loopholes—and getting it wrong can cost you your benefits, your housing, and your financial security.
There are a lot of reasons the United States of America would be a difficult country to invade and conquer. Not only is it separated from its enemies by vast oceans protected by the world’s most powerful navy, it’s also a large country, filled with a multitude of terrains, climates and other natural obstacles. The USA also boasts the world’s most technologically advanced and lethal ground and air forces. But even if an invader managed to get through all that, there’s one more reason they would never subdue American civilians: guns.
There are more than 340 million Americans in the U.
The head of U.S. Cyber Command wants to see a more consistent approach to readiness across the military.
As currently architected, each military service provides a set number of forces to Cybercom to employ in operations. However, the different branches, to a large extent, still retain their own policies and regulations when it comes to figuring out how to staff those forces to Cybercom.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below. *** Russia This week, the fate of Ukraine shifted from the battlefields of the Donbas to a conference room in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia hosted talks between a U.S. team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a Russian team led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
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U.S. Special Operations Command wants to arm lightweight drones with new glide bombs, and it’s gearing up to evaluate vendors’ solutions.
A technology assessment event hosted by the SOFWERX innovation hub, in partnership with Army Special Operations Command and Army Space and Missile Defense Command, is slated for April.
The aim is to “advance efforts in developing and producing an advanced light-weight precision glide munition,” according to a special notice.
The commanding officer of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was relieved due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the Navy announced Thursday.
The dismissal of Capt. Dave Snowden, the carrier’s CO, comes a little more than a week after a collision between the Truman and the merchant vessel Besiktas-M near Port Said, Egypt on Feb. 12.
According to a Feb. 16 statement from the U.S. 6th Fleet, damage to the Truman included “the exterior wall of two storage rooms and a maintenance space.
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