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Laguna Hills, Calif. - Feb. 27, 2008 - Allied Schools is now offering no-charge career training for military spouses. The new program comes in the wake of efforts by the Department of Defense and various service branches to broaden the career and educational opportunities with programs such as tuition assistance for military spouses.

Military spouses study at no charge when their service member spouses enroll at Allied Schools using their Tuition Assistance benefits. Military spouses can choose from an approved list of courses in real estate, the medical field and business - many of which are 100% online. Allied offers training to be a medical transcriptionist and real estate broker, for example, which are highly mobile professions well-suited to the military lifestyle.

Distance (online) education allows military spouses to train from home while still maintaining their daily commitments to family and friends. Military spouses don't have to worry about in-state/out-of-state tuition rates if they must move to a duty-station in another state - online training removes the barrier of residency status.

"With the recent Army Covenant and the government's Military Spouse Career Advancement Initiative, military spouses are getting the help they deserve," said George Achenbach, president, Allied Schools. "We're happy we can offer no-charge training to military spouses and help them go after their career dreams."

The military spouses of active-duty Airmen, Sailors, Marines and Army National Guard Soldiers/Army Reserve Soldiers on active-drilling status are eligible for the program.

For more information about military spouse education, check out www.education4military.com or call
(888) 501-5221 to speak with an admissions representative.

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Laguna Hills, Calif. - Feb. 20, 2008 - If Soldiers are to continue defending the United States during a time of war, then it's time the country stepped in and helped Army families.

This was the message of Army leaders when they signed The Army Family Covenant last fall during a ceremony at Fort Knox. The written commitment promises support, resources and services to Army families during this unprecedented all-volunteer war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Army understands that some Soldiers separate from the Army because their spouses have experienced difficulties in key areas like career, military spouse education and childcare. It seems clear when the needs of the Army family are met, Soldiers get the support they need to carry out their mission.

One of the five major pledges of the covenant is "expanding education and employment opportunities for family members." Army spouses, for some time, have had to deal with a host of barriers to career and education opportunities: moving from installation to installation, the inability to make long-term commitments to employers, loss of in-state tuition rates and undependable child care resources.

One way that Army spouses can take advantage of new educational resources promised in the Army Family Covenant is military distance learning. As long as Army spouses have access to a computer and Internet access, they can train for a new career completely online in many cases. And with unpredictable Army work schedules, military online education means that Army spouses can study wherever and whenever they want. Additionally, if the family is transferred to an out-of-state duty station, the issue of in-state, out-of-state tuition rates is no longer a concern.

The Army Family Covenant also proposes "ensuring excellence in schools, youth services and child care." For Army spouses who want to work outside the home, this is an important pledge, allowing them to feel confident that their children are well taken care during the day. Spouses are encouraged go to their base's military education center and learn what military spouse tuition resources are available from both the Army and private schools.

In the end, Sheila Casey, wife of Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., summed up the risk facing the Army if spouses and children are not properly cared for: "You lose the family, you lose the Soldier."
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Laguna Hills, Calif. - Feb. 15, 2008 - A few years back a much-heralded study by the Rand Corp revealed the difficulties facing military spouses when it came to employment and education opportunities. The 2004 report noted, in particular, that Army spouses were three times more likely than civilian spouses to be unemployed.

Military spouses told researchers that a lack of childcare, military work schedules and narrow course offerings at the base military education center were significant barriers to their career goals. And though the Department of the Defense and the Army are still working to address these issues - it's important to note the programs in place that Army spouses can access today to reach their professional goals.

Army spouses living stateside are eligible for a special military assistance program, known as Stateside Spouse Education Assistance Program (SEAP), which is need-based military spouse education assistance to active-duty Army spouses. The program helps Army spouses get career training so they can compete in the job market. SEAP offers up to $2,500 per academic year. Spouses assigned with active-duty Soldiers in Europe, Korea, Japan or Okinawa, are eligible for education money through the Army's Spouse Education Assistance Program (EAP). This program provides Army spouses with an educational grant of up to $350 per term, which is important spouse military tuition assistance.

Many distance education schools also offer military spouse scholarships. Distance education programs enable Army spouses with children to stay home with their children and study whenever and wherever they have time; they also offer spouses a wide variety of civilian course offerings. Military distance learning programs allow an Army spouse to continue with a course, even when the family is faced with a move to a duty station in another state.

To help Army spouses address pressing child care needs, the Army has also created the Child and Youth Services program, which provides 2,800 child care centers for Army children worldwide. This program, among other things, is aimed at allowing more Army spouses to enter the workforce; the Army helps out by sharing part of the cost. In an effort to help Army families while operational tempos and deployments are at such a high level, the Child and Youth Services program ensures that there is child care available early in the morning, later at night, on weekends and even 24 hours a day if necessary.

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Laguna Hills, Calif. - Feb. 11, 2008 - The challenges and stresses associated with longer and more frequent deployments are no secret to Air Force families.

For some Airmen and their families, there is the particular challenge of troubled finances as dollars are stretched and pennies are pinched. And while Airmen have been taking advantage military online correspondence courses to take both military and civilian courses for some time, many Airmen spouse advantage of this option to train for career while staying on-base in the U.S.

Many spouses are aware of the Air Force's Spouse Tuition Assistance Program (STAP), which provides partial military tuition assistance for Airmen spouses who live overseas with an active-duty Airmen. This is important tuition assistance for military spouses, but it limits the education to on-base offerings, and excludes spouses who remain in America.

What is currently transforming career training in America - from university degrees to certificate programs - is distance (online) learning, which allows students to study from anywhere in the world as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection. One of the great advantages of online military spouse education – even those caring for young children - is that many schools offer vocational training that preparers them for a career in months, not years. This means that while Airmen are away on a 12-month deployment, their spouses to complete career training, get hired and then begin earning an income even before their Airmen spouse returns home. And with military online education, this can all be done without ever leaving base housing.

The medical field is a growth industry now served by areas like medical transcription, medical coding and medical billing. The Department of Labor projects that jobs in the medical industry will grow at a rate of 27% through 2014, which means a steady paycheck for workers in this field. Medical transcription, for one, is a career that suits the military life of ever-changing duty stations.

Medical transcriptionists interpret oral dictation from doctors and other health care professionals into clear, accurate information for a patient's medical record. Increasingly, this work is being done outside of medical facilities. These days many medical transcriptionists work from home as contractors or even as proprietors of their own transcription businesses. Home-based medical careers help Airmen spouses, because they can maintain their income even when the Air Force moves the family from one duty station to another.

Many accredited online military distance learning schools offer discounts to spouses of active-duty military personnel. And when the military service member is already a student, schools will often offer a military spouse an even larger discount. For many Air Force families, quick career training and a second income will help ease the stress and pressures associated with repeated deployments. Airmen and their spouses are encouraged to plan for their family's financial success prior to deployments.

To learn more about military distance learning programs and military spouse education, please visit Allied Schools at www.education4military.com or call (888) 501-5221 to speak with a military admissions representative.

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