It’s Almost Over…Or Is It?

By Jim Knotts, CEO of Operation Homefront By December, defense officials estimate the number of U.S. troops left in Iraq, if any at all, will amount to less than 5,000. At the height of the war, in 2006 and 2007, the U.S. had between 130,000 to 172,000 men and women fighting there. By summer 2012, [...]

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Still Deploying

Our combat mission in Iraq may technically be over, but our service members continue to deploy. That means our families are still facing long separations during a difficult economy. Today Operation Homefront CEO Jim Knotts spoke with multiple radio stations about how the families we support still need us, and how we all can help. [...]

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The highlight of the Military Motherhood Award

I think even celebrity guest Wendy Davis from Lifetime’s “Army Wives” was upstaged today. But I doubt she cared. I imagine she was just as thrilled as everyone else when Maj. Sam Schoolfield, husband of Military Motherhood Award winner Robin Schoolfield, showed up at the luncheon in his wife’s honor. Sam is deployed to Afghanistan, [...]

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