Building Great Communities for Our Military

By Daniel Cohen It started with a shoebox.   Following a lengthy career at the U.S. Defense of Department (DoD) assisting communities and contractors coping with downsizing, John Lynch began his retirement in 1990 with the objective of turning...

Fort Leonard Wood Region, Missouri Military children, like their parents, serve in their own way. They must be brave, helpful and flexible. They  have to  deal with things such as long separations from a deployed mom or dad, to adjustment to a n...

Eglin-Hurlburt Community, Florida There’s a big buzz in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. It’s Venture Hive Veterans. The City of Fort Walton Beach and Venture Hive, a business accelerator and incubator organization from Miami, have teamed up to encourage a...

Goldsboro, North Carolina What child hasn’t stared up at the sky, spotted the contrails of a plane flying high above the earth and dreamed about jetting to faraway lands or taking off on a big adventure — perhaps of growing up and piloting a super...

Lawton, Oklahoma F ort  Sill has a fabled place in American history. Its field artillery training has served the nation in every military operation since 1869. Located on the Great Plains near Lawton, Okla.,  it  numbers among its early fronti...

Flint Hills Region, Kansas “What is unique about our partnership is that we bring the whole of the university towards Fort Riley. It’s not just about looking at Fort Riley as a source of prospective students. It’s looking it as a rich community, a...

Dayton Region, Ohio “Hometown Heroes has truly become one of America’s great traditions.”   An 8-year-old boy says it’s been 180 days since his dad was deployed from  Wright - Patterson  Air Force Base.    “What I really miss about him...

Colorado Springs, Colorado Colorado Springs truly is a military-connected community. With the United States Air Force Academy, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Fo...

Monterey, California “Military families make many sacrifices in service to our country. The stresses associated with periodic, and sometimes unexpected, deployments can take their toll on children and spouses,” said Tom Jennings, former noncommiss...

South Puget Sound, Washington L ast  year, Washington state budgeted $495 million to widen seven miles of Interstate 5 that run along Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM). This installation, which was formed in 2010 from the merger of the Army’s Fort...