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Children and Teen Programs in the Marine Corps

Friday, January 30, 2009

The Marine Corps has established programs to make sure that the children of Marines get the educational, social and recreational opportunities to help them reach their potential. The programs are run by the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) and are especially important right now while the Corps is on a war footing.

Military spouses have rightly received their due lately for the number of sacrifices they’ve made to support our nation’s armed forces; yet we must also recognize that children who go without a parent during a deployment are also making a great sacrifice.

Depending on the age, often children don’t fully understand why a parent has to be away from the family for a year, or even more. And while the service member is deployed, the remaining parent often has more stress and responsibility, further adding to the nervousness of children.

Just as any country rightly recognizes the family as the basic block of society, so does the Marine Corps appreciate that families support the individual Marine. Research indicates that the legacy of broken families ultimately has consequences for society; in this same vein the Marine Corps appreciates that a disrupted, hurting Marine family will affect the fighting ability of an individual Marine.

    To help assist parents, the Marines have instigated a program designed to help children and teens on and off base. These programs are for children from six weeks all the way up to the age of 18. Some of the programs include:
  • Child Development Centers: Children are cared for the whole day, for part of they day or even for one hour; they are staffed by trained caregivers who must meet the accreditation standards of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
  • Family Child Care Homes: Child care is provided in housing owned or leased by the government and under control of the base commander. FCC providers are private contractors certified and monitored by the command.
  • Youth Activities: A variety of recreational activities are available for children, including centers with foosball, pool tables, video games, etc., for the benefit of Marine Corps children; there are also computer labs for student homework and skill development classes.
    The Marine Corp has also teamed up with the Boys and Girls Club of America to expand youth and teen programs. The partnership with the Club provides materials and services for health, social, education and character development programs.


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None of these programs are a substitute for the principal role played by a mother and father, but they can be a helpful augmentation to the family’s role – particularly during times of deployment when one parent may be away.

While the Marine Corps has a variety of services to help Marine families, many families may be new to the Corps or a particular installation and not familiar with the wide-range of services they can tap into. Marines should always communicate with new Marines and their families and make sure they’re informed about the services offered by the Corps.

And with the news that 30,000 troops will be sent to Afghanistan in 2009, it’s a sure bet that their will be Marine families who will need to lean a littler harder on the Marine community and services that make deployment a little bit easier.

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Companies Take Part in Army Spouse Employment Partnership

Friday, January 16, 2009

In 2002, then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, created a special program called the Army Spouse Employment Partnership to create career opportunities for military spouses. The program is a partnership between the public sector and private corporations; over the last six years more than 41,000 jobs have been created for military spouses.


One of the latest private corporations to join the program is Converges,
a global leader in relationship management, who announced its plans to help Army wives and husbands find employment.

Convergys human resources will work with the program to reach out to Army spouse at Convergys' 81 contact centers. The company also plans to aggressively use the Web to inform spouses about the job opportunities at the company.

"Hiring military spouses makes good business sense and fits very well into Convergys' commitment to global talent management, and that's why we didn't hesitate to join Army Spouse Employment Partnership," said Clark Handy, Convergys Senior Vice President, Human Resources. "Military spouses represent a talented and diverse workforce of people who are often concentrated on or near US military bases around the world and whose exceptional work ethic and low attrition rate speak volumes about the high quality of work they can provide."

Convergys joins 27 other companies, along with Black & Veatch Corporation, EMC Corporation, Lowe's Corporation and West Corporation who signed up to help this past October. This past year approximately 8,000 Army spouses were helped with jobs, which is a significant contribution as the nation struggles through a recession.

Military spouses, because of the unique circumstances of the military lifestyle, have a harder time in general achieving the kinds of educational and career goals that civilians can. Military spouses, who are enrolled at a school near the base, may have to disrupt or discontinue their schooling when their military spouse is transferred to another duty station of state.

Although congress and state legislators have begun to address the issue, many military spouses who move to a new state are not eligible to receive in-state tuition rates, making the cost of education unaffordable. One important solution already available for military spouses is online education.

The advantage of distance learning for military spouses is that they can enroll in a program, and continue studying no matter where the military family is transferred. Many online training programs are also self-paced, which means that students often have up to one year to complete a course or program.

This would allow, for example, a military spouse to take two months off while he or she moves with their family to a new duty station in another state. As soon as the family is settled in their new home, the spouse can get right back online and resume studies.

In addition to eliminating the whole issue of in-state tuition rates, online education also allows military spouses with children to study without leaving the home. Military spouses can study during nap times, at night or on the weekend; distance learning allows military spouse to be both parents and students. Get military education with military tuition assistance from Allied Schools.com.

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California Marine Families Get Christmas Surprise

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Christmas and the holiday season are a time of great joy for families, but for many military families with loved ones deployed overseas, it can be a time of stress and worry as well.
Marine families at Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in southern California, however, got a boost to their Christmas spirits, when two charitable groups stopped by to distribute free Christmas trees to Marine families.

The "Trees for Troops 2008" organization stopped at MCAS Miramar in San Diego to distribute free trees to Marine Corps families, while at Camp Pendleton, the Christmas Spirit Foundation and FedEx joined forces with the National Christmas Tree Association to give away 1,000 Christmas trees to Marine families on the sprawling West Coast base.
Although it's nice to receive, the Marine Corps also understands it is better to give, and that's why the Marine Corps Reserve's "Toys for Tots Program" will once again be providing donated toys to deserving children across the country.

And when it comes to giving to Marine families, active-duty Marines have the chance to help their wives and husbands by taking advantage of military spouse scholarship programs that help marine spouses get the training and education opportunities they need to compete in a very tight job market.

Although every school's military spouse program is unique, many schools join a service member's enrollment to their military spouse education programs. For example, some schools will provide no-tuition courses to a military spouse when his/her service member spouse enrolls in the institution. This allows both husband and wife to get the training and skills they will both need to compete in today's work world.

Now when an active-duty Marine enrolls in a school using Marine Tuition Assistance, this means that he/she will pay nothing for tuition, and then if the program has a military spouse scholarship program, it's possible that they will both train without spending a dime.

Although many Marines and their spouses choose to work toward a degree, there are a number of vocational schools - many of them with online courses - which prepare military families for a number of career paths.

In the medical field, there are a number of medical office careers, including: medical coding, medical billing, medical administrative assassinating, dental office assisting and medical transcription. Medical transcription is a particularly attractive career for military spouses because it allows people to work from home.

Although the real estate industry is experiencing the pain that nearly every field is, it is inevitable that when the recession ends, real estate will rebound. Military families can get their real estate training now and be ready for the eventual rebound. And there's more to real estate than just selling homes, career paths in real estate also include positions like home inspector, property manager and even licensed contractor.

Solid business training programs like administrative assistant or small business management which train students to become independent business owners or provide support to others.

The good news is that these career training programs can all be found 100% online at schools that specialize in distance learning for service members and their families.

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Top Ten Reason Service Members Make Great Police Officers

Monday, January 5, 2009

Police departments look for many of the skills that come naturally to veterans of the armed forces. In many ways, protecting America's borders and interests abroad, is great preparation for protecting Americans in their towns and cities here at home. Here are ten reasons why service members make great police officers:


  • Discipline: It takes discipline to handle grueling police shifts patrolling city streets and responding to emergencies; service members understand the importance of discipline
  • Firearms: Experience handling firearms is a must for police officers and service members, particularly those in the combat arms, know how to handle weapons
  • Hierarchy: Service members understand how to take follow orders from their superiors - this structure and culture is very similar on the police force
  • Stress: Being a police officer is stressful and for service members who have been in combat, experienced long deployments or worked long hours in the military, stress is nothing new
  • Sacrifice: Veterans of the armed services understand that sacrifice is sometimes necessary for the good of the unit; police officers, who work unusual shifts and face real dangers, face this kind of sacrifice for the safety of the community
  • Vocation: You might say that people don't choice to be Soldiers or police officers, but that they're called to the career as a vocation. One doesn't join the force of the military to make money, but to serve
  • Teamwork: It's possible for a school teacher to work alone and follow his own vision, but not so for police officers or members of the military; veterans understand that if you don't work as a team, people can get hurt. There is nothing in the civilian world like the bond between police officers
  • Desk Jockey: Many people in the military enjoy the freedom of being out in the field instead of cooped up in an office. Police officers by and large are out in the communities meeting people and solving problems - desk jockeys need not apply
  • Training: Members of the military understand that to get the job done right, you need to rehearse operations endless times in training; sweating during training saves lots of bloodletting later. Police officers are on the same page!
  • Courage: Very few jobs ask an individual to put his life on the line day-in and day-out. Police officers and service members understand this expectation


Members of the military who are looking to pursue a career as a police officer should be sure to go after a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. Most police departments these days require their officers to have a four-year degree.

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While you serve in the military you can use your military tuition assistance benefits to study for a career as a police officer. There are even a number of online universities that offer criminal justice degrees specifically for members of the U.S. Armed forces who are on active-duty.

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