MARCH 16, 2023 – According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not getting enough quality sleep can decrease productivity and increase accidents, mistakes at work, and associated injuries and disability. Not getting enough sleep is also linked with many chronic diseases and conditions—such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity and depression. Quality … [Read more...]
Tips and Tricks to Train Your Service Dog
MARCH 17, 2023 - If you have a dog, you understand that it is your responsibility to take care of it. You have integrated it into your family, you play, bathe, feed, and walk it, and you make sure that it is healthy at all times. However, did you know that you can train your dogs and give them responsibility for certain things in your life? These dogs are called service … [Read more...]
DCMA Promotes Employment Possibilities to Military Spouses
MARCH 9, 2023 - Military spouses sacrifice much to support their warfighters and troop readiness. Leaders at Defense Contract Management Agency, under Department of Defense-wide guidance, want to reward that sacrifice and champion untapped professional assets. In a Sept. 22, 2022, memo titled “Taking Care of Our Service Members and Families,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. … [Read more...]
Flexible, Rewarding Side Hustles for Military Spouses
MARCH 15, 2023 - If your partner is in the military, it can feel like you have to make some tough decisions about your own life and career. Or at least that used to be the case, before technology evolved to the point that picking up a satisfying and lucrative side-hustle which can travel everywhere with you was an option. To prove how much choice and flexibility military … [Read more...]
Job Search Tool Connects Military Spouses, Employers
MARCH 1, 2023 - The Defense Department's Military Spouse Employment Partnership connects military spouses with over 600 partner employers consisting of corporations, small businesses, non-profits and federal agencies who have committed to recruit, hire, promote and retain military spouses, said C. Eddy Mentzer, associate director of Military Community Support Programs in DOD's … [Read more...]