Military spouses
Usually the person who actually runs the move: the housing, the schools, the paperwork, the second try at the same office.
BECOME A BORIS™ CONTRIBUTOR
Your local knowledge, in front of families the week they need it.
Every family that PCSes overseas rebuilds the same knowledge from scratch — which office, which paperwork, which street. You already did it. Boris™ Contributors write that down so the next family starts further ahead.
Open to anyone who has lived it · No minimum commitment
WHO WRITES FOR BORIS™
People who have already been the new family.
There is no press pass. The qualification is having lived the move, the base, or the town — and being willing to be specific about it.
Service members and veterans
What the orders did not say, what the sponsor did not have time to explain, what you would do differently next tour.
Local experts and community members
People who know the town rather than the installation — how a lease, a registration or a waiting list really works there.
Writers, photographers and creators
If you already tell stories about this life, Boris™ is a place where they reach the families who need them at the exact moment they need them.
WHAT YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
Five things worth writing down.
One piece is enough. The best ones answer a question a family is about to ask and cannot find an honest answer to.
01 / STORIES
Your PCS, as it actually went.
Not the polished version. The part that surprised you, the week that went wrong, the thing you would tell a friend on the phone.
02 / LOCAL GUIDES
One place, written properly.
A neighborhood, a process, a season — covered by someone who lives there rather than summarized from a national page.
03 / PRACTICAL TIPS
The small thing nobody writes down.
Which document to bring, which hour to go, which word to use. The detail that saves a second trip.
04 / INTERVIEWS
The people who know.
A housing office, a school liaison, a landlord, a shop owner — in their own words.
05 / PHOTOGRAPHY
What the place looks like.
Real photographs of real communities, so families arrive already recognizing where they are.
EXPERIENCE AND POLICY STAY APART
Your story is never printed as a rule.
This is the line that makes Boris™ worth reading, and it protects you as much as it protects the family.
Personal experience
Clearly labeled as experience. It carries your name and your point of view, and it is useful precisely because it is one household's account rather than a regulation.
Official requirements
Checked against an authoritative source, dated, and linked. When an article touches a requirement, the source travels with it — and if the official source disagrees with us, the official source wins.
Contributor work is editorial. It is not a commercial placement, and a Gold Partner cannot buy its way into it — the same limit described on the partner page.
WHAT YOU KEEP
Your experience stays your own.
Boris™ maintains editorial standards for accuracy, transparency and usefulness. That is the whole of what we ask.
01 / VOICE
We edit for clarity, not into a house style.
If a sentence sounds like you and it is accurate, it stays. What gets changed is what could mislead a family making a decision.
02 / ACCURACY
Anything consequential gets a source.
If a piece states a requirement, a fee or an entitlement, it carries the source and the date it was checked — or it is rewritten as experience.
03 / TRANSPARENCY
Readers always know what they are reading.
Experience is labeled as experience and paid placement is labeled as paid. Neither is disguised as the other.
BEFORE YOU WRITE
The questions people ask first.
Who can become a Boris™ Contributor?
Military spouses, service members, veterans, local experts, writers, photographers, creators and community members. What counts is having lived the move or the place.
What can I contribute?
Personal stories, local guides, practical tips, interviews, photography, or other useful experience.
Does my work stay mine?
Yes. Your experience stays your own. Boris™ maintains editorial standards for accuracy, transparency and usefulness.
Is contributor content official PCS guidance?
No. Community articles and contributor stories are based on personal experience. When an article touches official requirements, Boris™ separates experience from verified information and links the official source.
Do I have to write regularly?
No, a single piece is welcome. We are especially interested in people who want to contribute regularly and help the families arriving after them.
For how Boris handles data, read the privacy policy; for current community coverage, see destinations; for sourced PCS guidance, browse Answers. Writing about Boris™ instead of for it? See the press kit.
START HERE
Tell us what you would write.
Send a note with who you are, where you have lived and the one thing you wish someone had written down before you got there. That is enough to start a conversation.
Become a Boris™ ContributorBoris™ is independent of the U.S. government. Contributor work is editorial and separate from Gold Partner placement; commercial partners cannot commission, shape or appear in it as recommendation.