Sarah Harris NCPR

Military families move a lot — and that makes it hard for the wives and husbands of the nearly half a million active duty service members to hold steady jobs.

It's a windy Thursday afternoon in Ogdensburg, part of a sprawling rural county in northern New York.

The choir at the Episcopal Church is practicing, and Eric Warner is behind the piano. He's a former funeral director, an organist and a stay-at-home dad who raises Clydesdale horses.

He's hoping to ...