PCS With Young Kids: A Family Move Plan You Can Actually Use
Plan a PCS move with young children: organize records, child care, travel-day essentials and caregiver handoffs, with a checklist resource from MilUnlocked.
Read the entry →Situation
The homefront field guide · for military dads
Plan
5 sections · pick the one you are in
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Deployment
Before, during and after — goodbye days, countdown rituals, letters, care packages, and staying connected across the whole deployment cycle.
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PCS & Moves
PCS with kids without losing the crib hardware — checklists, the pre-move purge, school transfers, and settling into the new duty station.
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Homefront Dad
Running the house solo on either side of the goodbye — bedtimes, mornings, reintegration, and the temporary stay-at-home-dad playbook.
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Military Family Life
The rest of the ride — childcare and CDC costs, one-income budgets, base life, the Month of the Military Child, and books for military kids.
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Gifts & Gear
Daddy dolls, deployment gifts for kids, care-package contents, homecoming-day gear and the other stuff worth the postage — reviewed by mailing it.
Kit list
Run-books to print · gear worth the postage
Run-books and checklists
7 on file- No-Fee Passports for Military Kids: The OCONUS Run-Book
- Pre-Deployment Checklist for Military Families With Kids
- New Baby in the Military: DEERS & TRICARE Checklist
- Military School Transfer Checklist for a PCS Move
- PCS Purge Checklist: Cut Weight Before the Movers Come
- PCS Checklist: A Printable Run-Book for the Whole Move
- Solo Parent Bedtime During Deployment: A Dad's Run-Book
Gear worth the postage
7 of 9- Deployment Journals and Countdown Kits Worth Buying
- Homecoming Signs and Outfits: What to Buy, What to Make
- Military Dad Shirts and Army Dad Merch Worth Wearing
- Care Package Ideas by Month: 12 Themes for a Year
- Daddy Dolls: A Buyer's Guide for Deployment Families
- Deployment Gifts for Dads: What's Worth Packing
- Deployment Gifts for Kids That Actually Get Used