One military child for each branch of service was chosen from a pool of 1,000 nominees to be the recipients of this year’s Military Child of the Year Award, given by Operation Homefront. Jim Knotts, president and chief executive officer of Operation Homefront, shared the following statement: “The sons and daughters of America’s service members [...]

The coming of a little bundle of joy is something that a lot of expectant parents get to enjoy together. For the loved ones of service members who are deployed overseas, however, giving birth is something that they would have to deal with on their own – just another one of the sacrifices that military [...]

We have shared time and again in several of our previous posts how unique an experience military service is as opposed to leading civilian lives, and how it has been documented that at times, service members have difficulty adjusting to life after military service. VAntage Point, the blog of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), [...]

The spouses of the President and Vice-President of the United States continue to show their support for our troops, and their families, through the “Joining Forces” initiative. The program has taken them to various places and given them the opportunity to spend time with, and extend gratitude, to service members and their families. A feature [...]

Father’s Day this year is not until Sunday, June 19, but at the White House, Father’s Day came just a bit earlier. A feature on the Navy Times shared that President Barack Obama hosted a screening of the movie “Cars 2” for military dads and their kids on Wednesday. The event was part of the [...]

Adm. Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, downplayed the possibility that service members and their families will be forced to evacuate from central Japan, according to a report on the Navy Times. In response to reports stateside that the military had plans of making the evacuation of service members and their families from Japan mandatory, [...]