The time to plan for retirement finances is while still an active-duty family. The retirement path can present obstacles that many military spouses do not realize will be in their way. From uncertain job markets, questions of where to live, and fees for home purchases, insurance and utilities, expenses increase during military retirement.
Three steps to prepare for financial stability in retirement include investing a second income, saving deployment pay and setting up retirement accounts even for military spouses not employed full time.
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The military lifestyle builds strengths military spouses may not even know they have. Picking up and moving every three years, navigating single parenting during deployments, adjusting to different locales, people and duty stations are tasks military spouses take on every day.
These challenges may not reward a military spouse with certificates or degrees, but they teach skills. These are skills military spouses can leverage to build a career that travels with them.
Do you know what it’s like to try to explain to a 3-year-old why he has so few playdates? To have them beg you to play with other children? I do. There have been times I have cruised around searching the local base parks for kids his age playing, hoping they stay long enough for my son to enjoy himself.
My name is Toby, I am a male military spouse… but more importantly, I’m a dad.
I was nearly 30 when my wife and I got married. I had spent all of my twenties building a career as a first responder.
John Varga, Express The attackers allegedly identified themselves as ISIS members and launched their mutiny at the IK-19 prison during a meeting of the disciplinary commission.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures Two and a half years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, a former part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
U.S. forces successfully killed a leader of a Syrian terrorist organization early Friday morning. Abu-’Abd al-Rahman al-Makki, part of the governing council for Hurras al-Din, was killed in a targeted strike, U.S. Central Command shared on Aug. 23.
CENTCOM confirmed al-Makki’s death on Friday, saying he was killed in a “kinetic strike.” CENTCOM did not elaborate on what weapons were used or how specifically al-Makki was killed.
Brent M. Eastwood, National Security Journal
You may have heard the many arguments against the aircraft carrier, all basically saying they are all done as a major naval platform.
Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering
The Phoenix E can seamlessly interface with internet protocol baseband equipment that the Army is transitioning to.
Colin Demarest & Hope King, Axios
Palantir Technologies has hired former
Alan Chiasson, RCDefense
I recently explored two notable articles: Take the Money and Go by Morgan Lorette, published in Real Clear Defense, and After the Fall by Paul C.