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(Stock image/Adobe) No matter how you tackle it, a military Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move likely is going to cost you money. Military family advocates estimate each PCS costs on average about $5,000 out of pocket. And even if you manage to get most of the PCS-related costs reimbursed, you're still likely paying something upfront. That, said military money expert Ryan Guina in an episode of the PCS with Military.com podcast, is just one of the many reasons military members and their families need to get tabs on their finances during each military move. Here is some of his best militar...

  April is celebrated as the Month of the Military Child. While those of us who serve as military families appreciate the sentiment behind this declaration, we would prefer more action at the national and local level regarding the quality of our children’s education, as significant challenges continue to accumulate, to the wearing of purple and handing out balloons in “recognition” of our children that marked last month.   Shutdowns due to COVID-19 this past school year will affect thousands of military children as they prepare for another Permanent Change of Station season. Like ...

The spring and summer are transition periods in Army life. Every year a significant portion of our formations rotate out and new members rotate in. This year, another transition will be layered on top of Permanent Change of Station rotations. Fort Hood and the nation, as a whole, will continue to assimilate into a new normal – one in which COVID-19 will cease to be viewed as either novel or emergent. Instead, it will become a commonplace feature of our lives. This transition is similar to that faced by American Soldiers in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In the spring of that year, America...

First Lady Jill Biden Shines Light on Military Spouse Employment From:   Catonsville, MD | April 27, 2021. Recently First Lady Jill Biden announced renewed support of Joining Forces, a White House initiative to support military and veteran families that she began with then-First-Lady Michelle Obama in 2011. A key plank in the current program is helping military spouses ov...

4 KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Permanent Change of Station season is upon us and United States Army Europe-Africa customs inspectors remind personnel of the differences in what they can, and cannot, receive in their military postal box while overseas. According to a U.S. Customs pamphlet, German customs law prohibits the receipt and shipment of certain items through the mail. Those items include prescription medications and over-the-counter nutritional medications and supplements. Those products could be destroyed or returned to the sender. “People have to realize that it’s...