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1036 articles to help with your military transition
Expert guides covering VA disability claims, C&P exam preparation, military-to-civilian career transitions, retirement planning, state veteran benefits, and more. Written for active duty service members, reservists, and retirees navigating life after the military. Browse by category or search for topics specific to your transition.
Vietnam, Korea, and Gulf War veterans are aging into VA benefits decades after service. Late-life claims, presumptive conditions, Aid & Attendance, and how adult children navigate a system their parent never engaged with.
Sometimes the right moment to reconnect is the moment they're going through transition. The realistic patterns of re-engagement, what to expect, and how to do it without making the veteran's hard time about your guilt.
Sometimes grandparents end up as the day-to-day caregivers for grandkids while a service member deploys, separates, or stabilizes. The legal, financial, and emotional realities, and the support that's available.
PCS moves change your BAH rate, sometimes significantly. Here's the exact timeline of when rates change, what you receive during the move, and how to budget the gap.
A month-by-month breakdown of the Military Medical Evaluation Board timeline under IDES, what happens at each stage and where delays typically occur.
What's happening to your service member at each stage of their final year, what's happening to you, and what the parent-specific support looks like at every stage.
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Brothers and sisters of transitioning service members occupy a strange role: not the parent, not the spouse, not the kid. Real care, real distance, real opportunity to help in ways no one else can.
Teacher certification doesn't automatically transfer when you PCS. Here's how state reciprocity works, what the Interstate Teaching Compact covers, and how to protect your career.
If you have an outstanding TSP loan when you separate, you have limited time to repay it before it becomes a taxable distribution. Here's how to avoid a costly mistake.
Long-term partners of veterans don't have most spousal benefit access. The real legal limits, the partial workarounds, and how to think about the marriage-or-not decision when transition is forcing the question.
A head-to-head comparison of USAA and Navy Federal Credit Union across banking, insurance, loans, and membership, with honest tradeoffs for each.
Veterans are specifically targeted by mortgage scammers. Learn how to spot VA loan fraud, net tangible benefit scams, and illegal fee schemes before they cost you.
VA's Veteran-Owned Small Business certification unlocks federal contracting set-asides. Here's what VetCert requires, how to apply, and what certification is actually worth.
Bad paper veterans often face a double penalty: reduced VA benefits and reduced family understanding. The shame, the misconceptions, and how family can support someone whose service ended badly.
LGBTQ+ veterans face a VA system that historically excluded them and is still uneven in delivering inclusive care. The discharge upgrade pathway, the care access realities, and how family can support.
Some service members don't choose the timing of their transition. The Medical Evaluation Board / Physical Evaluation Board process is involuntary, often fast, and produces a transition no one planned for. What family should know.
Reserve and Guard service members transition out of military service in patterns the active-duty playbook misses. Different timelines, different benefits, often invisible to family expecting an 'active-duty' transition.
Women veterans face transition challenges that aren't well-served by the standard playbook: MST, women-vet healthcare gaps, identity erasure, and the specific patterns family should know about.
Anniversary reactions are real, often subconscious, and predictable. The patterns to watch for, the dates that quietly drive a year of veteran behavior, and what family can do in advance.
Your BAH stops on your separation date, there's no grace period. Here's when the last payment hits, the few exceptions that extend it, and how to bridge the gap.