About Us

Military Living® Publications is the largest travel publisher of military travel information for all uniformed services members, active and retired, and their family members.

Military Living® Publications Mission Statement

At Military Living® Publications, we understand that military life can be dangerous and challenging. We know that when service members get time off, they want to relax and travel, and they can do this by utilizing their military benefits. This is where Military Living® Publications comes in. Since 1967, we have published information to help military families use their benefits to travel around the world. We do this by using our website militaryliving.com, our various travel guides, and our maps to help communicate to our military readers how they can travel, shop and live using military facilities. We are a good news publisher, and we always do everything we can to put forth positive news of the American military. The Military Living® Publications staff are all military retirees and spouses and consider it their mission to help our readers make the most of their military travel and benefits.

RJ Crawford, Publisher, 40 years at Military Living®

RJ is proud to be the second generation of the Crawford family serving our military readers with travel and retirement guides and websites.

RJ lives in a rural farming community on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay in Ophelia, Virginia. His hobbies are budget travel and biking country roads. He is involved with his church and other activities in his community.

RJ can be reached directly via email at RJ@militaryliving.com.

Amanda, Accounting

Amanda is our Bookkeeper, wholesale account manager and all around utility player. She is a 20 year retiree of the U.S. Army. She started her career as an MP and finished up in the Jacksonville US Army Recruiting Battalion as the Operations/Training NCO for the Jacksonville Army Recruiting Company.

After retirement she found her niche working behind the scenes in a supportive capacity for small business owners in her position as a Freelance Virtual Assistant. She joined the Military Living® Publications Family in early 2012. Amanda is a passionate advocate for the needs of homeless and at-risk female veterans.

Amanda is married to her husband Michael. They have 5 children and 3 grandchildren. She enjoys traveling, exploring local breweries and wineries along the way, is a self described coffee snob, a kayak enthusiast, and can usually be found spending time with her dogs curled up on the couch with a good book.

Nicole, Editor

Nicole began working as an editor for Military Living® in May of 2020. She works to keep the Military Living® publications that we all know and love up to date, and shares with you the latest information on Military travel. She is a New Jersey native, an active-duty Navy wife, and a mother of 2 (plus 4 fur-babies).

She graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2006 and met her husband in Connecticut. Since then, she has lived all over the east coast, west coast, and Guam, thanks to her Navy husband and his various duty stations. Her love of history and the military began at a young age, watching WWII documentaries on the History Channel with her father, and hearing war stories from her grandfather, who was stationed aboard the USS Herndon (DD-638).

While not working or taking care of her rambunctious youngsters, in her spare time she enjoys reading, birding, gardening, and photography.

Nicole can be reached directly via email at Nicole@militaryliving.com.

Zach, Customer Service

Zach is our Customer Service department, helping out our readers behind the scenes and handling order fulfillment.

Zach joined the Military Living Family in October of 2018. He is an Army brat, car enthusiast, and fan of all things penguin. Zach is an active volunteer with his church AV team and prefers animals to people.

Don, Customer Service

Don joined the team in May 2024 as our Customer Service Representative. He began his Military Career in the United States Army at Fort Knox Kentucky for basic training followed by advanced training located at Fort Lee Virginia Quartermaster School. He completed the rest of his service assigned to 121 Signal Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.

He attended Florida State University where he studied business and spent his corporate career managing Accounting and Finance Departments. It was during this time that he got involved with Military Support Groups at the VA Medical Centers in Washington, DC as well as West Palm Beach, FL, helping fellow Veterans.

As a native South Floridian, he enjoys hobbies including enjoing the beach and everything above and below the water as well as college sports, specifically Florida State Football!