American Express waives the annual fees on all their cards for active duty military servicemembers. This includes the $550/year AMEX Platinum. The company does this to comply with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and the Military Lending Act (MLA).
The Microsoft military discount offers 10% off to US servicemembers, veterans, and their families everyday! This fantastic deal can be applied to Surface Pro, Windows 10 PCs, and many other Microsoft products. This discount is offered in addition to the
What a roller coaster of a year! Between a rough start in January when the S&P 500 was down 5% (the worst month since 2009), Brexit, the Trump election night crash and then end of year “Trump bump,” I don’t think
After over two years of no deployments, I have a six month deployment to the Middle East coming up in 2017. Deployments are excellent opportunities to lower your expenses, increase your income, and stuff your tax advantaged retirement accounts (TSP and IRAs) full
In 2013 I deployed for the first time with my squadron to a location in Southwest Asia. It was quite an adventure. I had a lot to learn about accomplishing our mission out there as well as all the opportunities for
A couple of work related trips brought me to Europe for a few weeks. When I wasn’t working, I rented a car and hit the autobahn, travelling around Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Romania. Throughout the over 14
The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) offers a unique, low cost, tax advantaged, diversified, and automatic investment opportunity to US government employees and military personnel. Since I’m active duty Air Force, I’ll focus on the military side of the TSP. TSP
Tax time is here! W2s should be released on myPay by 24 January. If you’ve properly configured your tax withholding, your tax return should be quite small. However, we know how crazy the military tax situation can be, with many
At the beginning of this month I had the chance to do a live, on the ground test of T-Mobile’s Simple Choice Plan just outside of Frankfurt, Germany. I travel to Germany and other European Union nations for about a
Over the next few weeks I’m publishing the entirety of my free report on “How to Make Money with Lending Club” as blog posts, so you can access them without having to download the report. Last week we covered How