As with any other career path, there are several options within the U.S. Navy and they all require effort, dedication, and time in service. Unlike dead end, minimum wage jobs, however, a career with the naval military provides ample promotion opportunities for both enlisted personnel and officers.

Once you have demonstrated your willingness and ability to learn, to stay physically fit, and to work to improve yourself, the U.S. Navy is prepared to provide you with every opportunity to grow within your profession with state of the art training and plenty of opportunities to put those skills to work. Whether you work in an office, aboard a ship, or are constantly on the move, your career will grow as fast and as far as you are willing to take.

Starting Out As Enlisted Personnel

Many career personnel begin their training as “newbies”. Fresh off the bus, head shaved, and looking more than a little uncertain, these men and women find, within only a matter of weeks, that they are strong, fit, fast, skilled, knowledgeable, and professionally adept. Of course, that’s only the beginning.

Enlisted Navy jobs are the backbone of the military and they range from everything to clerks and gunners to sailors and dog trainers and everything in between. Your training never stops. The U.S. Navy has access to cutting edge technologies, state of the art training facilities, and outstanding educators. The more you learn about your profession, the faster you will be promoted.

Becoming An Officer

You can become an officer through several channels. If you are a college graduate, you join the Navy directly. If you are a college student, you can join ROTC. If you are still in high school, you can opt for ROTC or one of several naval academies for your initial training. Officers are highly respected, expertly trained, and well rewarded for their personal, professional, and leadership skills.

As an officer, you can receive financial assistance to complete your education in several areas. The military is always looking for doctors, lawyers, accountants, logistics experts, weaponry specialists, and skilled leaders. In order to ensure that they have the best possible personnel, they are even prepared to pay for your education, full medical benefits, and many other benefits, all while you earn a competitive salary.

The Benefits Tip The Scales

Benefits from the U.S. Navy allow your salary to go significantly further than that of your civilian counterparts. These benefits include free housing, full medical and dental coverage, free and discounted world travel and insurance, access to military shopping privileges and fitness facilities, financial assistance for career training and education, and an exceptional retirement plan.

You will also have access to do-it-yourself workshops on base, fully stocked with every tool imaginable and your children will enjoy attending some of the best schools in the world. Instead of having to protect them from bad influences, they will be surrounded with positive role models and a family friendly community. In addition to these benefits, depending upon your terms of service, you may also qualify for guaranteed low-interest home loans and sign-on bonuses.

The U.S. Navy is ready, willing, and able to make a career both challenging and rewarding with expert training, strong family support, excellent benefits and a job to be proud of.

Chris Harmen is a writer for Navy.org. Navy.org provides information regarding careers in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, allowing potential military personnel to make informed decisions about the professional options available.

Have you noticed that every single time that the president of the United States leaves on a trip for diplomacy abroad or traveling the nation that the Democrats immediately cause the non-event controversy, thus cutting his visits short. This is indeed a travesty for all of America and all Americans, because part of the job of the president of the United States is to promote this great nation.
In preventing our leader from promoting those things that are essential to peace both foreign and domestic and new concepts that could better our nation, we the people in the end are the real losers. As the president of the United States travels he is not in Washington D.C. to defend himself of the accusations, falsehoods and often mean-spirited and baseless attacks. Instead, his advisers who were not in contact with him directly at the time must defend his actions involving the particular controversy, which is nearly impossible as how can anyone prove they did not kick their dog, especially when the attackers and accusers fail to identify which dog was kicked and where.
When the controversy involves nothing-ness and made up claims of impropriety there is little the president can do except return back to Washington to defend himself or attempt to defend himself while on the road without all the information of who is attacking, what the attacks are about or why on earth they were made a first-place. Let’s take as a perfect example the Dubai UAE port deal and the controversy surrounding it.
The first claims said that a company that was partly owned by the UAE government was buying up six major U.S. ports. Later we find out if they are only purchasing the British firm’s operations, which involve the running of port operations and have nothing to do with the security of the ports. Of course such a claim, a false claim cut short the president’s visit to Boulder CO, Wisconsin and destinations in the Upper Midwest, where he was promoting alternative energy and alternative fuels for automobiles, trucks and our SUVs.
In cutting his visits short we are all hurt as Americans because when the president talks of such things American free enterprise opens its wallets to invest in the future of these new technologies. So, as someone had an ax to grind and wanted to hurt the president’s political standing, they inadvertently or perhaps purposely hurt our nation and forward momentum of our efforts to kick the habit and addiction to foreign oil.
At this point may I please ask, who does it serve when our president is attacked every time he leaves Washington D.C. to get away from the corrupt politics. If we are to progress as a nation, we must stand by our leadership listen to what they say and not be so quick to judge every single time the opposition throws a bone to the mass media hysteria. Consider this in 2006.
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With so many guys looking for love overseas and searching for a Russian bride and so many horror stories of guys being scammed for money from either fake girls or fake dating agencies, it’s nice to know that finally there may be light at the end of the tunnel. There are thousands of serious minded beautiful Russian women looking for marriage on the internet, but many guys are put off with all the bad press and scamming reports. But it is not all true and is only down to a very small minority, there are thousands of genuine honest girls looking for love and romance. To be honest the reason many guys are scammed is due to their own stupidity and being very niev, as long as you remember NO good Russian lady would ever dream of asking any guy to send you money, so you

Baltimore, MD June 8, 2004 — With the recovering economy and the continued easing of international travel restrictions amidst the backdrop of the terrorist havoc of September 11, 2001, many Americans have resumed traveling abroad. Unfortunately, while many of them are making their travel plans, they neglect to anticipate the very real problems they can encounter here in the U.S. as well as abroad.

Traveling Abroad Post “9-11″ and in the Wake of Terrorism: A Practical Guide for Americans & Other International Travelers by Gladson I. Nwanna takes the guesswork out of preparing and traveling abroad during these uncertain times by providing and addressing a broad range of issues on foreign travel post 9-11. Both the business traveler and tourist will benefit from the information and advice Dr. Nwanna provides in this book.

Traveling Abroad Post “9-11″… addresses such diverse concerns as safety, health, money, shopping and driving. The author also addresses matters of etiquette, law and order, common sense, good judgment and good habits.

Readers of the book will find not only information about security awareness, overseas, but also how they can get help from the U.S. Department of State should they be stranded or handicapped by a disaster while abroad. The book also includes important post 9-11 packing tips for those traveling by air and new airport security screening procedures and guidelines established by the Department of Homeland Security.

Information contained in Traveling Abroad Post “9-11″… should be useful to all categories of international travelers, but more so for those who have not traveled abroad since the “9-11″ incident or those traveling abroad for the first time.

Very prominent throughout this book is Dr. Nwanna’s ability to draw on his vast first hand experiences with specific emphasis and cautions on a myriad of potentially costly issues often taken for granted by many travelers to foreign countries. Topics covered include how not to flirt and fraternize with foreign law enforcement officials and preventing abductions, as well as treats and tricks of foreign con artists.

Besides the hundreds of tips and advice given by the author, Traveling Abroad Post “9-11″… contains 14 appendices, references and resources that overseas travelers can consult.

Gladson I. Nwanna, Ph.D., is also the author of the bestseller international travel book “Americans Traveling Abroad: What You Should Know Before You Go”; “Americans Living Abroad: What You Should Know While You are There,” “American Businesses Abroad: How to Protect Your Assets and Personnel,” and the regional book series “Do’s and Don’ts Around the World: A Country Guide to Cultural and Social Taboos and Etiquette.” Dr. Nwanna is a university professor, a former consultant to the World Bank and a veteran traveler. “Traveling Abroad Post 9-11 and in the Wake of Terrorism: A Practical Guide for Americans & Other International Travelers” is published by Frontline Publishers. Available at Amazon.com., through major bookstores nationwide or directly from the publisher at 410-922-4903. Retail Price is $24.99, ISBN: 1-890605-13-1, 265 pages.

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A good marriage is one that positively changes over time. When a marriage expands the horizons of both spouses and creates a lasting bond of love and family, the benefits last for generations. However, when a marriage, over the years, leads to constant bickering, resentment, anger, hurt and, on the part of one or both spouses, a loss of a sense of self, it’s time to evaluate if the marriage is worth maintaining.

Divorced individuals often say that they knew the marriage was over years before they ever filed for divorce. There are those who will hear that response and question “So why did you stay? If you knew it was over, why not end the relationship right there and move on?” Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong.

While far too many people jump into marriage without careful consideration, far more married individuals stay stuck in an unhappy marriage out of worry, fear, doubt and, yes, hope. The biggest questions a person who’s unhappily married will ask him or herself is this “Can this marriage be saved if I give it more time? Have I really tried and done everything to make this work?”

Those two questions keep some people in marriages that eventually rebuild but, far too often, keeps many others in marriages that will never reconcile. The important thing is to be able to tell the difference so a person knows which marriage he or she is in and doesn’t waste time.

How can you tell if your unhappy marriage is a passing phase or if it’s an incurable condition? Ask yourself three important questions:

Question #1- What are you fighting about?
Rocky marriages are filled with all sorts of internal struggles. Whether a war of words or a battle of silence, it’s important to pinpoint the three to four key topics that form the core of your marital problems. Once you can identify them, you’ll clearly see whether you’re fighting about issues or causes.

If you’re fighting about issues, you’re having confrontations about values, ideals, situations and lifestyle choices that directly impact your quality of life within the marriage. An example of an issue is eating healthy and exercising. If you are a person who believes in buying organic food and belonging to a gym where you go five to six times a week to exercise and your spouse engages you in arguments over why you’re spending too much money on food and why you won’t quit the gym, you’ve got an issue not to mention a serious lifestyle incompatibility. This is not something that you turn a blind eye to. If prolonged, this kind of arguing can lead to deep resentment where the room for compromise is little to none.

You don’t “sort of” eat organic; you do or you don’t. Going to the gym is a lifestyle choice and many people prefer it to exercising at home, especially if home is full of distraction. Again, not much room for compromise. In this scenario, it makes no sense to be fighting over actions and activities that improve your overall health. If you’re fighting over an issue, it’s something that MUST get resolved or “unhappily married” will quickly become “swiftly divorced.”

If, however, you are fighting for a cause, the opportunities for reconciliation are bigger. Causes are those topics we argue about “just because.” Most people like to be right. It feels good to be right. All married individuals know their spouse’s hot button topics, the words you can say that will make his or her blood boil. When you’re fighting about causes, you’re fighting to be right. It’s almost always a circular argument where nobody wins. It begins with “I want” and usually ends with “It doesn’t matter why. I want it.”

Here’s an example of a cause:

You like laundry done and folded in one lump sum. You don’t like to sort clothes, take a break, wash and dry and then pile the dry clothes on the folding table and let them sit for a few hours and then come back and finish them. You like to get it done in one sitting. Your spouse, on the other hand, doesn’t care and does laundry with breaks and it drives you up the wall.

When you fight about anything, you always come back to “I want you to handle your business, finish what you start… like with the laundry… because that’s how I want things to be run.”

Are you laughing yet? Seriously, is this really why you’re arguing, over whether laundry is done quick, fast and in a hurry?

That’s a cause and causes wreck marriages everyday because they get blown out of proportion and get turned into personal attacks. It does not have to be so. If you are arguing causes, your unhappy marriage is very much a choice you’re making and the good news is that you have every ability to choose differently.

Question #2- Where has the relationship been going?
Marriages travel in one of two directions: 1) circular or 2) staggered climb.

Let me explain the difference:

A circular marriage is one that is built on, affected by and challenged with the same patterns of behavior, issues and perspectives over and over again. it’s a cycle of arguments, discussions, resolutions, and problems that lead no where and, instead, go round and round in circles. When your marriage is circular, you take two steps forward and two steps back. You resolve an issue and, six months later, you’re fighting about the same issue. You feel stuck and, because the marriage isn’t growing and becoming more, you truly are stuck. Circular marriages usually wind up in divorce court.

The other traveling direction for a marriage is what I call a staggered climb. In this marriage, you start out with one purpose: to get to the mountain top. Both people bring their baggage, pack food and water, and embark upon the journey together. There are ups and downs, highs and lows, breaks in between and obstacles to overcome. When you get to the mountain top, you realize this is only the first mountain and there are many more to climb but you hang in there because the goal of doing this journey together is the highest priority. That is a marriage with staying power. Even setbacks, in this marriage, spring the two people forward.

Question #3:Why are you holding on?
There’s a payoff in everything. In an unhappy marriage, you’re choosing to stay for one of two reasons:
1) Fear of failure- People stay in unhappy marriages because of the stigma they attach to “failing at marriage”, living alone, not keeping the vows, or not “getting it right.” Don’t mistake fear of failure for loyalty or commitment. To know if you’re staying in this marriage out of a fear of failure, all you have to do is ask one question, “If I knew I couldn’t fail, would I leave this marriage?’ The answer comes quickly.

2) Commitment to Success- If you like who you are with your spouse, if you’re proud of what you’ve built together, if you can find the good in the relationship, even when it feels really bad, you are holding on because you know this marriage can work and you’re committed to seeing it work because it truly is the best relationship you could build on right now. Yes, you could go elsewhere and begin again and be just fine but this is the marriage you want to work in the long run and that’s why you hold on.

Asking yourself these three questions will make it very clear to you if your unhappy marriage is temporary or here to stay. Respond to the questions openly and honestly and the answer will be clear.

Kassandra Vaughn is a pre-divorce strategist and creator of top notch pre-divorce coaching programs designed to educate, inspire and support individuals thinking about divorce. The CEO of ROI Coaching, Ms. Vaughn creates coaching programs that help individuals live their best lives starting NOW!

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Irvine, CA July 31, 2004 – "Support the Olympics", founded to encourage business leaders from across the country to travel to Athens in August as an act of economic patriotism. Founders of "Support the Olympics", Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman lead this non-profit company to spend money in Greece, waving American flags and urge other business leaders from across the country and abroad also travel to Athens and support for the Games. To preserve the message that represents the Olympic ideals of promoting peace and international understanding that mobilizes the youth of the world, Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman, co-owners of 30 Minute Photos, etc and www.30minphotos.com – a national service online photo, based in Irvine, California, are supporting the Games for the trip to Greece, as spectators, and lead "Support the Olympics". The entrepreneurs have attended previous Summer Olympics as the world meeting fans of the world since the mid-1990s, but insist that this time the message from the Americans to travel to Greece is an important extra. As the eyes of the world will be in Athens in August, Goldstone and Berman will attend the Games as goodwill ambassadors to remind the world that the Games' message ?