Author: Michael

The idea of an independent U.S. Cyber Force has been in the news of late due to the National Defense Authorization Act amendment calling for a feasibility study of such a service. In the last few weeks, there have been several articles urging caution, or coming straight out against, creating a Cyber Force, without any one of the author’s ever having sat on mission behind a keyboard. We’re here to tell you that they’re wrong. Dead wrong.

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Industry research shows that recruiters spend six to eight seconds reviewing a resume before they decide whether the candidate is suitable for the position or not. So, what is the point of spending so much time writing the perfect resume, if recruiters will not even bother to invest 10 seconds in reading it?
Your resume is the single most important professional document you own, as it will determine your future earning potential. As military spouses and transitioning service members, we can be easily overwhelmed and confused when it comes to writing our resumes.

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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Anti-Western ideology and geopolitical necessity may be the main factors uniting the Russian and Iranian regimes. But there’s also an unexpected preference for backgammon.

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Leaving the military is full of emotions. When we talk about emotions most often people focus on the military member. Heck, they are the ones leaving the military. Their life is the one changing. But their life isn’t the only life shaped and affected by military service. Military spouses also have experienced life connected to the military and some of those challenges and circumstances have changed them as a person as well. Because of this shared military life experience, there are bound to be emotions for the military spouse who is also leaving the military community.

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The Moore County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina says that when a Special Forces officer assigned to Fort Liberty shot and killed a man who was taking pictures on his property in May, the soldier acted legally under state law.
“The homeowner’s actions were deemed justifiable under the North Carolina Castle Doctrine, which allows for the use of defensive force in situations where there is a perceived imminent threat to personal and family safety within one’s home or property,” the sheriff’s office posted on its Facebook page.

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