Some parents are leaving the military to avoid duty assignments in states that have passed harsh laws targeting LGBTQ youth.
Over the past 19 years, Alleria Stanley’s family has grown accustomed to packing up and moving wherever the Army tells them to go, measuring time by all the different states and countries they’ve lived in.
“We tell time in our family by location instead of year, so our events are marked by where we were not when we were,” Stanley told USA TODAY.