Living

Fantastic foundations

The Defence Housing Strategy 2025 heralds the biggest transformation of Armed Forces accommodation in more than 50 years. It’s a plan about far mor...

Boots, barracks and brain fog

BY STAFF SERGEANT JODI STICKLAND, AGC SPS Serving in the Armed Forces demands resilience, discipline and unwavering commitment. For years, I prided...

Raising the standard

There are early signs that the new Consumer Standard for families living in Service Families Accommodation (SFA) is helping to improve lives. When ...

Green shoots on the home front

  BY CAT CALDER, AFF HOUSING SPECIALIST Habitual underinvestment, slow repairs and a lack of accountability have made military housing a long...

Make yourself at home

Army housing is getting a much-needed makeover, with major investment in accommodation and more freedom for families to enhance the spaces they live...

Signpost to success in civvy street

Afghanistan veteran Sarah Johnstone has forged a new career using her experience of moving into civvy street to help others going through similar tr...

Medical merger

AFF Overseas Assistant Rachel Barnes recently met the Central European Practice (CEP) team, who reported on the merger of the virtual CEP based in S...

BlogSpot – Life after service

A blog from Army&You's autumn edition by Richard Varley After graduating from Newcastle University in 2009, I commissioned into the Royal Artil...

Pet policy change

Animal lovers now only need to tell the Pinnacle National Service Centre that they have a pet rather than asking for written permission to share the...

Award for work with military community

A professional coach has been awarded a Coaching Impact Award for her work with spouses of UK armed forces personnel.   Tina Smith, pictured front ...