Posts Tagged ‘military’

Program needs assistance helping military kids

Program needs assistance helping military kids
By Allison Gatlin Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA — On your drive to work today and while  running Saturday errands, stop by Walmart to help support Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America provide 250 military kids with backpacks and school supplies. Six members of Cochise County Chapter 1020 will be in the Walmart parking lot today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., selling baked goods and crafts …

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Pew Commends Uniform Law Commission for Military and Overseas Voters Act

Pew Commends Uniform Law Commission for Military and Overseas Voters Act
Model law for states would remove obstacles and provide more time to vote in all elections

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Cuba trains Venezuela in military, communications

Cuba trains Venezuela in military, communications
It’s no longer just doctors, nurses and teachers. Cuba now sends Venezuela troops to train its military, and computer experts to work on its passport and identification-card systems.

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Military Spouses and work/portable careers?

I have been a military spouse for a year now and my husband is currently deployed. When he left, I moved back home with my parents and basically just found any job I could so that I could start earning money. I work at a hospital as a unit secretary and while I don’t hate my job, I don’t feel like it is stimulating and don’t want to do it forever. My issue is the same issue all military wives face, I’ll work here for this 15 month deployment, then move back to his duty station for a year, then have to decide between staying there or moving back home for another year, then move again, and again, and again… we don’t have any children right now, so my job is a major focus for me when he is gone.. any suggestions for portable careers? has anyone found any of the work at home programs (call center stuff or virtual office assistant) to be legit? I want to do my share to bring income in for our family, but I also want to do something that doesn’t bore me for the rest of my life. Thank You!
It isn’t so much that I ‘have to run home’, it was just easier to deal with our first deployment at home with my family and friends, as opposed to at the military base where I didn’t really know anyone. If I had a job that I had enjoyed then I would have given much more consideration to staying, but since I didn’t have a job, I didn’t try to find one just to stay. Also, we have been able to save a lot of money since I am living with my parents. Once we have children that are school aged, I know I will stay put at bases when he deploys, just so the kids don’t have to change schools anymore than absolutely necessary. But, even if I did stay at his duty station when he deployed, my husbands says that guys with his MOS usually get sent to a new base every 3 years or so,… and even that is a lot to move when you are trying to buid a career… but the goverment jobs seem like a good idea since it doesn’t sound like you lose your benefits which each move.. be it yearly or every 3 years.

I’m considering a civilian job on a military base in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. What do you think?

This job will pay me 4 times my current annual income in only ten months time. I’m qualified for the position and I see it as a once in a lifetime opportunity to help, experience and see what our military is enduring overseas. I did consider joining the military after high school and then became a mother so I decided not to. I considered it again when I later became a single mother of two children, but at that time I couldn’t imagine being away from my kids. They’re older now and spend a lot of time with their father who is disabled and a stay-at-home dad. I make the money and pay him child support. I have a small amount of debt, but cannot manage to pay it off with the income that I have been making. I have no savings, no health benefits and no plan in place for retirement. I did manage to return to school this semeseter to work on my A. A. to give me more credibility to earn more money. I have plenty of experience and I am naturally talented and skilled in the work that I do. I have been in a commited relationship for 4 years with a man that I love. At times I feel like a loser becasue I cannot seem to get ahead with my finances and my boyfriend pays for most of our living expenses. I think that taking the job overseas would be a great chance for me to get ahead, pay off my debt, hire an attorney help me gain full custody of my children and help my boyfriend by paying my share of our living expenses. Maybe even help pay for a nice wedding and honeymoon if he ever asks me to marry him Of course I would also put some money into savings. I think that this experience would also help my credibility to make more money when I return. I have little fear about the living conditions overseas and I’m ready to eat, sleep and breathe this job while I’m away. I would be living in a military camp working a call center providing help with technological equipment. I don’t get homesick and 10 months is not a lot of time when I compare it to the rest of my life. I feel like this is not just about the money it’s also a life experience that I can be proud of. Just looking for some input from anyone who may have worked as a civilian on a military base in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. I would also glady accept input from anyone in the military who has been to or is currently in either one of those places. I have to make a decision by Friday 10/10 as to whether or not I want to pursue the job and begin the background check, etc. Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me thier sincere honest opinion.