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Liza Rodewald works from home and co-founded Hire Mad Skills, a job site that places military spouses in remote jobs.

Career, Family, and Frequent Moves: Why Military Spouses Often Struggle to Find Work

Military families move a lot, and that makes it hard for service members’ spouses to hold steady jobs. About half of military spouses are either…

The 82nd Airborne Division, Now 100 Years Old, Does More Than Jump From Planes

The Fort Bragg division is best known for its parachute jumps in World War II. Today, its specialty is rapid deployments - with or without parachutes.

Writing Through War’s Invisible Wounds: Meet Thomas J. Brennan

Thomas J. Brennan first started writing about war through letters home to his wife when he was deployed in a remote village in Afghanistan’s Helmand...

Patients are evacuated from St. Croix by the 45th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron of Reserves based at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base.

Like a Flying Ambulance: Air Force Evacuates Critically Ill Patients From St. Croix

Military C-130 and C-17 aircraft have been outfitted with medical equipment, as the Air Force flies patients to hospitals in the mainland U.S.Air Force…

Pilots from the 45th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron fly a C130 to evacuate patients from St. Croix.

Aboard A Rescue Flight: Air Force Evacuations Continue From Virgin Islands

More than a week after Hurricane Maria, the Air Force continues daily medical evacuation flights from St. Croix. Patients are heading to South Carolina,…

The USS Fitzgerald sits in dry dock in Yokosuka, Japan after a June 17 collision with a merchant vessel.

Navy Review Due Soon After Two Fatal Warship Collisions in the Pacific

Human error is likely to be among the causes of two separate collisions involving Navy destroyers. The accidents killed 17 sailors.The top leaders of the…

Kevin Ziober testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs in 2016 about his firing from a California real estate firm.

Fired After Military Deployment, Reservist Seeks His Day In Court

Kevin Ziober says he was illegally fired because he served in Afghanistan. His employer is forcing him to take his complaint to binding arbitration,…

Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico mayor Enrique Questell Alvarado shows 105th Engineer Battalion Lt. Col. Cale Moody a road washed out by Hurricane Maria.

With Huge Job Ahead, National Guard Begins Rebuilding Rural Puerto Rico Roads

A North Carolina-based engineering battalion is making slow progress repairing roads that were blocked or damaged in Hurricane Maria. But months of work…

Sgt. Gary Wyckoff (left) helps residents fill containers with drinkable water in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Troops from Fort Bragg are using a filtration system to purify the water.

Soldiers Distribute Clean Water in Puerto Rico, Where It's Still a Luxury

Many residents are making daily visits to distribution sites, where the Army has set up portable water purification systems.Water -- especially safe,…

Patients wait for medical care at a temporary hospital tent outside the VA hospital in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The main building is unusable after Hurricane Maria.

After Maria, VA Battles PTSD, Other Health Issues in Puerto Rico Veterans

A month and a half after hurricane Maria, the VA Caribbean Healthcare system is delivering care in unconventional ways. And it's helping veterans whose…

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