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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has some great tips and resources to help you teach your children about personal finance.
The transitional compensation program for abused military dependents is one of the most poorly executed programs in the entire USA. They leave dependents who are battered and beat down in financial distress and quite often times facing homelessness and starving as they sit on your "paperwork" for months on end. You get abused by the service member, and then you get abused by the actual service itself... all while your abuser is provided three hot meals, a warm bed, and AN ARMY PAYCHECK for being in military prison! It's atrocious. Often times a spouse will stay with their abuser out of fear of the exact thing you allow them to go through, financial hardship, homelessness, starvation, and lack of medical care so essentially, you are letting the abusers win and allowing people to continue to be abused. You HAVE to do better than this!!!!!!! #ShameontheUSArmy
April is the Month of the Military Child! This year's theme is brave hearts, resilient souls - they sure are!
It's out there in the forecast, but those +40° temps are going to feel like a heatwave!
What about the Army Civilian Corps?
My son just got to his FDS and is not getting ready to deploy overseas for the first time. I know this is what he wants, but I am worried. Not only is he my son, but he is my youngest. Of course my daughter is National Guard reserves, and you would think I would be better prepared for this, but I am not, Guess its because she isn't active like he is, and their MOS is very different. I find myself watching all sorts of military movies like "The Long Road Home" and "Sand Castle" when I know I probably shouldn't. I just want to know what to prepare for, and then I wonder are there any support groups locally that I can be a part of that are readiness? I know I am a strong person, and I can handle a lot, but even I need to cry sometimes, and just wish someone knew what it was like with what I am feeling on the inside. I am so tired of hearing people say they understand, when really all they have to relate it to is their child going off to college. I have experienced that as well, and it is NOT the same!
My husband is in the Army and we are newlyweds, he's deployed, ect. Am I in the correct group?