Kathy Roth-Douquet

Oct 10, 2023 | stripes.com | Kathy Roth-Douquet |Heidi Lind Andersen

The Blue Star Families’ latest Military Family Lifestyle Survey uncovered the challenges faced by the 600,000 military families that relocate each year as part of their duty. (Blue Star Families/Facebook) Training is a building block of the military. It’s where service members gain the skills needed to do their jobs, and build the foundation of trust that enables them to function and perform together, during day-to-day duties and high pressure moments.

Aug 26, 2023 | msn.com | Kathy Roth-Douquet

Imagine this: One person wielding arbitrary power over 1.5 million military family members. But surprise, it’s not the president — it’s Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville. But don’t take it from just me. “We will lose talent because of those challenges,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told Congress about the hold’s impact on military families. He’s slated to be our next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — if and only if Tuberville’s hold lifts.

Jun 14, 2023 | fortune.com | Kathy Roth-Douquet

Flag Day is not only the day the Stars and Stripes became our flag, it is also the birthday of an institution that defends the freedoms the flag represents–the Army. But what if the government required you to move, and the state you moved to wouldn’t allow you to practice your profession? When military spouses move to a new state, their occupational licenses don’t transfer–which means months of unemployment and financial hardship for military families.

Jun 14, 2023 | es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Kathy Roth-Douquet

Flag Day is not only the day the Stars and Stripes became our flag, it is also the birthday of an institution that defends the freedoms the flag represents–the Army. But what if the government required you to move, and the state you moved to wouldn’t allow you to practice your profession? When military spouses move to a new state, their occupational licenses don’t transfer–which means months of unemployment and financial hardship for military families.

Jun 14, 2023 | thehill.com | Kathy Roth-Douquet

Immigration, love of country and military service have always gone hand-in-hand for me. My father, whose parents came to this country fleeing persecution in Europe, served briefly in the Cold War, and a member of my extended family was saved from Auschwitz by U.S. soldiers. He was taught English by an Army sergeant and made a life in America, where he had a hand in inventing the first Commodore computer.