Making Military Service More Attractive for Modern Spouses

Editor’s Note: This article was written in response to our unofficial support for the Department of Defense’s innovation challenge for talent management. We want to help with this effort and have asked for original, creative ideas that reconsider the status quo, shake widely held assumptions, and take on the conventional wisdom about recruitment and retention. In 13 years of being married, we have only lived in the same household for three of those years. Why? Army talent management policies.To be sure, part of this has been our own choice. One of us is a career Army officer, beginning in the infantry … Continue reading Making Military Service More Attractive for Modern Spouses