Gurkha veterans’ firm foundations

ONE year on from the earthquake that left swathes of Nepal in ruins, elderly Gurkha veterans are rebuilding their lives with support from a younger generation of soldiers in the Himalayan foothills. Nearly 1...

Marvellous May for veteran Lamin

INJURED ex-guardsman Lamin Manneh has a hectic month ahead of him after making the Invictus Games squad and being selected as an ambassador for the 2016 Mobility Roadshow. Gambian-born Lamin, who lost both l...

Postbag: In praise of Army welfare

IN THE 20 years I’ve been with my soldier, we’ve been lucky to have never really needed Army welfare – until this year when my husband fell ill following a working trip overseas. He soldiered on for a long tim...

Homework heaven

HOMEWORK is an accepted part of every child’s schooling. But in some households it can feel like a never-ending fight to get your children to focus, particularly when your soldier is away or working long hours ...

Postbag: Tricky identification situation

CAN the MOD look at issuing a permanent dependant’s ID card like our version of a MOD F90? Getting a dependant pass for camp for where we are currently based (Larkhill) is like a mystery nobody knows how to s...

Postbag: Speed up the system

MY HUSBAND has just left the military after more than 30 years’ service. The Army has known that he is leaving and the specific date for nearly a year and therefore his rank, seniority, length of service and de...

Five steps to get MoneyFit

Managing your money, saving and being financially secure is important to everyone. Military life brings specific challenges that can make balancing budgets particularly difficult. Army&You spoke to the team...

Postbag: Disabled need permanent homes

WHY does the military not have dedicated disability adapted houses in this day and age? I realise that the majority must be catered for, but given that a number of soldiers may return from operations (or other...

Make Your Own Zoo

When her husband was posted to Afghanistan for a year in 2011, Tracey Radford started writing a blog. It quickly became a place to share new craft ideas and led to her first book, Make Your Own Zoo. It features...

Downtime: The skate escape

Army wife Kerstine Reynolds tells us why ice hockey is the perfect sport for families on a posting to BATUS… ICE hockey is as popular in Canada as football is in the UK. If you can imagine playing sevens r...