When duty called, chiropractor Daniel Bordelon didn't turn his back. The Army National Guard colonel, who nearly drowned in Hurricane Katrina, gave up his practice at a huge loss to serve in rebuilding New Orleans.

Military couples and families often move every few years, making it difficult for civilian spouses to get good jobs. At Fort Knox, Ky., Marketplace's Amy Scott found some husbands and wives trying to make it work.

Patrick Sowers found a good job with higher pay and less work than he'd known as an Army sergeant. That bothered him. He's been paying back ever since, to the benefit of thousands of people in uniform.

Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch spent eight years in the British Royal Marines, completing training in 1989 and posted to 42 Commando in Plymouth. He was then deployed to the Gulf War, when he learned the importance of writing a will.