Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
Military spouses serve, too, and it's critical we work together to ensure our country's military spouses have the jobs they need and deserve.
The challenges military families face from frequent relocations and deployments are themselves patches of service, and that's why supporting our military families is one of my top priorities in Congress.
On average, military spouses are significantly more educated than their civilian counterparts, but much more likely to be unemployed or underemployed.
Military spouse employment is the issue that most people email me about when they are suggesting topics for me to cover in my Home Front' column.
Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.
We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.
