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DoD May Slash Your Housing Allowance
Think your Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) is safe from the long arm of sequestration? Think again. According to this Army Times article the Pentagon is considering cuts to BAH rates as a way to find continued savings within the Defense Department....
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Thu, Aug 08 2013 4:58 AM
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How YOU Can End Sequestration
It isn’t that we mind saving money – it’s the sloppy way we’re doing it. That’s because sequestration was never actually supposed to happen. It was supposed to scare lawmakers into action. But instead it did and instead of trimming the DoD budget in a...
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Fri, Aug 02 2013 6:23 AM
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Video: Macho Money
Financial planning – the most important yet boring thing on the planet. But everyone knows we don’t spend enough time talking about it, especially as military families. Sequestration and additional budget cuts will eventually affect all of us –...
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Fri, Aug 02 2013 10:00 AM
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What Not to Do at a Military Ball (By a 1SGT)
We spouses like to bicker about what our husbands’ leadership must think about the attire of spouses, girlfriends, partners and Milsos at the ball. This time we decided to ask. Here, straight from the source, is one Army First Sgt.’s (E-8...
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Tue, Aug 20 2013 4:00 AM
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Military Lifestyle
Smarter Than A Worksheet? Think Again
I am far too smug to use a worksheet to get ready for deployment. So when Blue Star Families asked me to try out the worksheets in their new free eBook Everyone Serves, I was a little blasé about the whole thing. Worksheets are for babies. Who needs a...
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Thu, Aug 15 2013 5:00 AM
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Deployment
Cutting BAH? Let’s Not Lose Our Minds
By now you’ve probably read the articles circulating in our community that mention that congress is looking at cutting BAH benefits to help meet the budget reduction for DoD. Of course, my first reaction was one of alarm and concern. I immediately...
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Sun, Aug 11 2013 5:00 AM
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Military Life
Why You Should Score the New Commissary App
The Defense Commissary Agency yesterday released their official coupon app which pairs with the commissary Rewards Card. You can download it here by clicking the link from your iPhone. While I was hoping the app would double as both a coupon loader and...
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Fri, Aug 09 2013 5:00 AM
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I Would Take That Bullet Again
On April 10, 2011 my phone rang with an unfamiliar number. Thinking it was my husband Jamie, I answered the phone quickly. But the voice on the other end didn’t sound anything like my husband. The voice was cold and direct as he asked to speak with Melissa...
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Mon, Aug 05 2013 10:00 AM
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Am I Grooming my Kid for the Military?
Almost every day I tell my 4-year-old that he can be whatever he wants when he grows-up. “Let’s look at the moon!” he says. “You should be an astronaut! You can be whatever you want, you know,” I say. Grooming him so that all the possibilities of the...
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Tue, Aug 06 2013 5:00 AM
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New Fort Irwin Dress Code Irks Spouses
A new dress code for off-duty servicemembers and family at Fort Irwin, an isolated California Army post, has raised the ire of military spouses who wonder if the military really has the right to tell them how to dress. The dress code, which is illustrated...
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Wed, Aug 07 2013 5:02 AM
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YDU: The Tower of Babble
Why didn’t you tell me that the military would turn me into a babbler? After all, the nice man behind the counter just wanted to know what had brought me to the area. I suddenly developed some kind of speech disorder “I’m, no, not me…we are, my...
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Wed, Aug 14 2013 6:00 AM
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Why You Should Join the SpouseBuzz Happiness Project
In military life, we know that happiness is not a destination. You don’t arrive there, unload the kids and set up camp. Nor is happiness a Stuart Smiley kind of glassy-eyed, simpering positivity. That doesn’t work around here, either. Instead, happiness...
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Sat, Aug 10 2013 5:00 AM
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Early Back To School Checklist
I confess that back to school checklists are my own secret way of anticipating the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. This year our school got into the checklist thing even before the moms. They sent the list of necessary school supplies in the same packet...
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Sun, Aug 04 2013 4:58 AM
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Don’t Spend Homecoming With Charlie Sheen
Other people’s homecomings are easy. Whenever anyone writes us at SpouseBuzz about whether or not their in-laws should come stay with them during homecoming or whether their grandma should really be planning to wear that American flag tube top to the...
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Thu, Aug 08 2013 10:00 AM
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Deployment
What You Need: Creative Ways to Make Friends on Base
My finger tightened around the tepid glass of orange juice. Music reverberated against the windowpanes. Dress swirled and girls giggled as boys pulled them closer. My gaze remained downcast. If only I could blend into the beige walls. Making friends at...
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Tue, Aug 06 2013 10:00 AM
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