Did you know… Mission: Milspouse published its 3000th blog post in 2023 and is still growing!
5 Tips for Selling Your House By Owner
As a military homeowner about to make a PCS move, you’re likely deciding whether you will sell or rent your home. And if you’re selling, you may be thinking about the choice between selling with a real estate agent or taking the DIY approach with a “For Sale By...
HGTV Girl in a Housing-Restricted World
As military spouses, we often find ourselves looking forward to the day we get to decorate our homes with no rules, restrictions, or repainting involved (or maybe that’s just me as an HGTV girl).
Across 13 Augusts
Back in August 2006, I was thrilled to be overwhelmed with slightly nervous excitement. It was near impossible for me to understand the full impact of accepting a job in my chosen career field—elementary education. I was going to be a first grade teacher!
Confessions of a Lonely Military Spouse
Loneliness. It is by far one of the strongest and most common emotions shared by military spouses. For a long time, I thought that “being lonely” was just a part of the job. I was serving my country by supporting my husband, and in the end, that just meant being alone was something I would have to learn to live with.
6 Quick Tips to Fire Up FRGs
Family Readiness Groups can be such a wonderful asset to military spouse life. It can be a great place to connect, meet people, and receive important information about all things mission-based.
Unfortunately, all it takes is one rough FRG experience to make military spouses a bit hesitant or skeptical to participate. (It certainly follows the concept of “One bad apple ruins the bunch.”)
25 Things to Love About America
When living overseas, it’s very easy to quickly begin missing certain things about the good ol’ US of A. It’s not that other countries necessarily “get it wrong,” but rather that it’s different from what Americans are used to. Over time, we adjust to the host nation’s culture, and it becomes our new normal.
But really, we still kind of miss certain things.
EYB: Fort Wainwright, Alaska
Fort Wainwright is the home of the United States Army Garrison Alaska and units of the United States Army Alaska (USARAK), including the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division; the USARAK Aviation Task Force; and the Medical Department Activity-Alaska. Fort Wainwright is co-located with the great city of Fairbanks, which is home to more than 50,000 people and provides virtually everything you and your family would enjoy in any other city in America.
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