The Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) is the new DoD job program for military spouses. The DoD has already vetted 96 corporate partners like SAIC, Amazon, AT&T, 3M and George Mason U. Full story.

A military widow from Yelm who contends the Army is not providing enough care for Soldiers returning from combat confronted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to "vent" her feelings -- and got escorted out of the building where he was holding a book signing. Full story.

Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Corps master sergeant who has fought for years to win government-funded health care for families exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, doesn't want the measure passed if, to pay for it, Congress would gut the military's prized commissary benefit. Full story.

After a loved one dies, everyone must find a way to cope. Reed immersed herself in Fordyce's memory -- by joining the Marines herself. Full story.

As most Fort Polk residents slept July 6, Jennifer Ezzell, the spouse of Sgt. 1st Class Tony Ezzell, struggled on her own to deliver a healthy baby girl in her master bathroom in a duplex in Palmetto Terrace. Full story.