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Do You Know How Much Your Husband Really Makes?

I hear wives complaining all the time about how little their husbands earn, compared to their civilian counterparts. I gripe too. I believe our troops deserve better pay. However, you need to look past the LES and take into consideration the total value of the military compensation package. We do get a lot of non-cash perks like FREE healthcare, FREE legal services, FREE financial counseling services, and FREE special needs services. We also get great tax breaks. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the average active duty service member receives a compensations package worth almost $100,000! Take advantage of the benefits, they add up fast! Click here to learn more.

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Educational Support for Transitional Military Kids

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School Liaison Transition Services provides a variety of programmatic strategies and resources that the to help “level the playing field” for transitioning military students, prepare school and installation to respond confidently to the complexities of transitions, and provide Families the assurance that their children’s academic well being is a priority.

The mission of the School Liaison Officer is to provide military commanders with the support necessary to coordinate and advise military parents of school-aged children on educational issues and needs and to assist in solving education-related problems. The goals of the program are to identify barriers to academic success and develop solutions; promote parental involvement in their children’s education; develop and coordinate army partnerships in education; provide parent’s with the tools they need to overcome obstacles to education that stem from the military lifestyle; and to promote and educate local communities and schools regarding the needs of military children.

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Operation Homefront:
Giving Military Children School Supplies

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 Operation Homefront has teamed up with “The Way We Get By,” a documentary about three senior citizens who serve as airport troop greeters, to give children of military families school supplies. “The Way We Get By” is a poignant look at loneliness, war, mortality and what it means to grow old in America.

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