I’ve been part of a military family ever since I was 14 years old. My older brother (now retired military) announced that he was following in his grandfather’s footsteps and joining the Navy when I was still in high school. My younger brother (career military) followed suit a few years later, making us officially a…
My brother got married yesterday. He’s in the military so the service was arranged in between deployments. His new wife understands that their lives will be largely like this: planning for birthdays, anniversaries and other events in between being shipped in and out. It is tough but it is the life that he signed on…
So first, the good news: the U.S. ended April in the black. Yes, it was largely the result of tax revenues from Tax Day but still, black. The bad news: it won’t last long. We’re ramping up spending yet again. The latest culprit is H.R.4310, known as the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year…
There are very few things that my brothers and I agree on. My older brother is a Tarheels fan, my little brother is a Wolfpack fan and I’m a Blue Devils fan – just imagine ACC basketball season around my house when I was a kid. Both of my brothers (gulp) have, at one time…