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The Veteran Eagle is a newsletter for veterans, transitioning military, their family members and friends and supporters of VetJobs. Feel free to forward the newsletter to veterans and friends and encourage them to subscribe.
This month’s Veteran Eagle is sponsored by: GetInterviews.com, The Home Depot, TECHEXPO Top Secret and FranChoice
Contents:
1. Message from the Top
2. VetJobs Recommends: Career Books by Peter Weddle
3. WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award Recipients
4. TD Bank Helps Veterans Become Franchise Owners
5. 2012-2013 Dice Salary Survey
6. SCAM ALERT: Poaching Veterans' Pensions
7. SCAM ALERT: "Veterans Affairs Services" Organization Not Affiliated, Getting Vet IDs
8. Reservists at 900 Colleges May Lose Tuition Assistance
9. Sequestration Could Dim Job Prospects for Veterans
10. VetJobs Recommends: Ready, Set, Go – 10 steps to building a career – David Reddick
11. National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of February 26, 2013
12. Significant Events this Month in Military History
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NOTE: If you have a resume in the VetJobs database, be sure to update your experience and refresh your resume at a minimum of every two weeks. VetJobs has many new customers using the resume database and as a general rule, they do not look at resumes over 30 days old.
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1. Message from the Top
VetJobs is very pleased to report that for the tenth year in a row VetJobs has been voted to the WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award ( www.weddles.com)! Of the ten years this prestigious award in the internet career world has been in existence, VetJobs is one of only four employment sites that have been voted in all ten years! The other three are CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and DICE.com. Heady company for a niche site like VetJobs!
This award marks VetJobs as one of the top 30 job boards out of over 400,000 career and employment sites on the Internet. Your votes have confirmed once again that VetJobs is the leading military related job board and one of the top career sites on the Internet! The staff of VetJobs wants to personally thank all of you who voted. We appreciate your support and will continue to work hard to earn your votes again for the 2014 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award.
See article #3 below for the thirty recipients of the 2013 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award. I congratulate the other 29 sites that have been selected for 2013 as they are the cream of the employment web sites on the Internet. When you are looking for a job, the list of 30 sites in article #3 is the place to start as they are recognized as the best of the best by the users!
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In March we wish a Happy Birthday to the United States Military Academy (USMA). It was in March of 1802 that the United States Congress established the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. USMA has graduated many outstanding leaders who have been instrumental in the leadership not only of the Army, but the country as well. If you meet a West Point graduate this month, say “Happy Birthday”!
On March 2, 1915, the United States Congress established the United States Naval Reserve by combining 17 state naval militias into a single federal force. This year is the 98th birthday of the United States Naval Reserve. So if you meet a Naval Reservist this month, tell them “Happy Birthday” as well.
The U.S. Navy Band celebrates its 87th birthday on March 4.
On March 5, 1942, Admiral Ben Moreell was granted the authority to establish a naval construction force and officially call its personnel Seabees. This month we celebrate 71 years of "Can Do!" spirit for the Seabees!
March 12, 1912 the Girl Scouts of the USA was founded.
On March 17 many will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
Be sure to remember to change your clocks forward an hour on Sunday, March 10, for Daylight Savings Time.
The first day of Spring is March 20.
March 24 is Palm Sunday.
March 29 is Good Friday.
March 31 is Easter Sunday.
March 26 is the first day of Passover.
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When posting your resume to VetJobs or any other site, be sure to double check for spelling errors and definitely be sure your email address is correct. Your resume will be the first impression many recruiters and/or HR people will have of you, and you do not get a second chance to make a good first impression. NEVER put your social security number on a resume.
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On the economic front, the Commerce Department reports a second reading on U.S. gross domestic product showed the economy expanded at an annualized rate of 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2012, up from an initial estimate of a 0.1% contraction, but below the 0.5% growth expected. This is an important move by the government as many leading indicators indicate that the current quarter could possibly be a down quarter. Two consecutive down quarters defines entering a recession. So with the government revising the numbers up for last quarter, the United States will not be officially in recession any time soon. Of course, for the 12,681,000 unemployed (source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) in January, they would say we are still in a recession.
So according to the government the economy grew in the fourth quarter, but just barely. The Commerce Department reports the U.S. expanded at a 0.1% annual rate in the last three months of 2012, better than the initially reported 0.1% drop but well below the third quarter's 3.1% pace. This is important because if GDP is shrinking while the population is growing, the average income is declining, which means less money circulating in the economy.
MarketWatch reports that stronger residential construction and an improvement in net exports pushed growth into positive territory. They offset a bigger decline in government spending than previously suggested as well as a sharper deceleration in the buildup of business inventories. Construction spending on new homes was revised up to a 17.5% increase from 15.3%. Exports fell a revised 3.9% instead of 5.7%, while imports dropped a sharper 4.5% versus an initially reported 3.2% decline. Consumer spending was revised down a tick to 2.1%, while government spending dropped 6.9% instead of 6.6% as originally reported. Business inventories grew a scant $12 billion in the fourth quarter after previous advances of $60.3 billion in the third quarter and $41.4 billion in the second quarter. The slower pace of inventory growth subtracted 1.6 percentage points from fourth-quarter GDP. Lower government spending chopped 1.4 percentage points off GDP. Also, the government trimmed the increa se in personal income in the fourth quarter to a 6.2% gain from 6.8% previously. Inflation rose at a subdued 1.5% rate, or by 0.9% excluding food and energy. The government revises the original GDP report twice to incorporate fresh data not available for the preliminary reading. A third and final reading will come out next month.
Complicating America’s situation, Bloomberg reports China surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s biggest trading nation last year as measured by the sum of exports and imports of goods, official figures from both countries show. U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said last week. China’s customs administration reported last month that the country’s trade in goods in 2012 amounted to $3.87 trillion.
Bloomberg reports that China’s growing influence in global commerce threatens to disrupt regional trading blocs as it becomes the most important commercial partner for some countries. Germany may export twice as much to China by the end of the decade as it does to France, estimated Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jim O’Neill. “For so many countries around the world, China is becoming rapidly the most important bilateral trade partner,” O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs’s asset management division and the economist who bound Brazil to Russia, India and China to form the BRIC investing strategy, said in a telephone interview. “At this kind of pace by the end of the decade many European countries will be doing more individual trade with China than with bilateral partners in Europe.”
The U.S. economy is double the size of China’s, according to the World Bank. In 2011, the U.S. gross domestic product reached $15 trillion while China’s totaled $7.3 trillion. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported January 18 that the country’s nominal gross domestic product in 2012 totaled 51.93 trillion yuan ($8.3 trillion).
“It is remarkable that an economy that is only a fraction of the size of the U.S. economy has a larger trading volume,” Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said in an e-mail. The increase isn’t all the result of an undervalued yuan fueling an export boom, as Chinese imports have grown more rapidly than exports since 2007, he said.
It is important for you as a job candidate to understand that while the country is facing political and macro-economic problems, the good news is that veterans are finding jobs at a better rate than non-veterans! The overall unemployment rate for veterans in January was 7.8% while the national unemployment rate was 7.9%. Employers still favor hiring veterans.
Here is a quick review of the economic indicators:
On the plus side:
-New claims for unemployment benefits fell to 344,000 last week from an upwardly revised 366,000 the week prior. Claims were expected to fall to 360,000 from an initially reported 362,000.
-U.S. pending home sales rose 4.5% in January from December, outpacing the 1.5% gain expected, according to the National Association of Realtors.
- U.S. existing home sales rose 0.4% in January from December to a 4.92-million unit annualized rate, slightly ahead of estimates of a 4.9-million unit rate
-Excluding the transportation segment, durable goods orders rose 1.9%, a much larger jump than the 0.2% expected and the biggest increase since December 2011.
-Sales of new single-family homes jumped 15.6% in January from December -- the largest increase since April 1993 -- to a 437,000-unit annualized rate. Sales outpaced estimates of a 381,000-unit rate and marked the highest pace since July 2008.
-The S&P/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas shows home prices rose 0.2% on a non-seasonally adjusted basis in December, compared with the 0.2% fall economists were expecting. Prices were up 6.8% from a year ago, the biggest year-on-year increase since July 2006.
-Inflation at the consumer level remained unchanged in January from December. Economists were expecting a 0.1% gain. Excluding the food and energy components, prices were up 0.3%, topping the 0.2% gain expected and marking the largest rise since May 2011.
-U.S. retail sales rose 0.1% in January from December, as expected. Excluding the auto segment, sales were up 0.2%, slightly above the 0.1% estimated.
On the negative side:
-Orders for long-lasting goods fell 5.2% in January from December, a bigger slide than the 4.4% expected.
-The Conference Board's gauge of U.S. consumer confidence rose to 69.6 in February from January, topping economists' estimates of 61 and marking the highest reading since November.
-The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's gauge of manufacturing activity in the mid-Atlantic region fell to -12.5 in February from -5.8 in January. The index was expected to rise to 1.0. Readings above zero point to expansion while those below indicate contraction.
-The Congressional Budget Office projects the U.S. budget deficit will come in around $845 billion, or 5.3% of gross domestic product, for fiscal 2013. The CBO also said it expects the unemployment rate to remain in the area of 8% this year, with the U.S. economy growing 1.4%.
- U.S. Housing starts fell 8.5% in January from December to an annualized rate of 890,000 units, shy of the 925,000 expectation.
The bottom line is the United States economy is still very stagnant with minimal growth. The current political situation in Washington and the administration policies are not improving the economy.
The good news is that in spite of the bad news, companies are still hiring! The overall unemployment rate for veterans is still lower than the national unemployment rate! There are jobs available. It is just going to be harder to land one, but you can find a job!
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For those who may be traveling in March, please stop in each USO you pass, especially in airports, and sign their visitor log. Funding for the USO is contingent on those who visit so the more people they have sign their logs, the better their funding. Additionally, take by store bought cookies and paper goods. These are always needed at USO facilities.
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As always, if there is anything we at VetJobs can do for you, please do not hesitate to call or email.
Remember, Freedom Is Never Free - Support Our Armed Forces and Veterans
Best regards,
Ted Daywalt
President
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Seven Tips for a Better Resume
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SEVEN TIPS TO RESUME SUCCESS:
1. Select the best format.
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2. Find a balance between wordiness and lack of detail.
Employers need to see details about your work history and experience, but they don’t need to know everything. Keep information germane to the goal of attaining an interview. Eliminate information that is not related and will not have direct impact on winning the interview.
3. Do not use personal pronouns.
"I", "me", "my", "mine", "our" should not be on a resume. Resumes are written in first person (implied). Example: For your prior job description, instead of writing: "I hired, trained and supervised a team of assistant managers and sales associates” you would instead state that you “Hired, trained and supervised a team of assistant managers and sales associates." Fragment sentences are perfectly acceptable on a resume and actually preferred.
4. Use numerical symbols for numbers.
While we are taught in school to spell out numbers less than ten, in resume writing, numerical symbols serve as “eye stops” and are a much better method. Instead of writing “Developed a dynamic team of eight consultants.” it would be much more advantageous to state “Developed a dynamic team of 8 consultants."
5. Think "accomplishments" rather than "job duties".
What makes you stand out from the crowd? How did you come up with a way to do things better, more efficiently, or for less cost? What won honors for you? Information such as this is vital, will grab attention, and put your resume at the top of the list.
6. Keep it positive.
Reason for leaving a job and setbacks do not have a place on a resume. Employers are seeking people who can contribute and have successfully performed in the past. Concentrate on communicating these issues and avoid any detracting information.
7. Be phone savvy.
Many first time job interviews are conducted via telephone rather than in person. Make sure you are prepared for that telephone call when it arrives … and make sure you have a resume that will make the phone ring!
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2. VetJobs Recommends: Career Books by Peter Weddle
The reality is that frequently online career information is wrong or out of date. If you're looking for strategies and tips, tactics and techniques that will actually work in today's tough economy, make an investment in yourself. Get one or more of the leading career books by Peter Weddle.
-A Multitude of Hope: A Novel About Rediscovering the American Dream. This modern-day epic traces the journeys of three out-of-work professionals searching for answers in today's seemingly nonsensical job market. Along the way, they discover the secret to "career security" and the pathway to real and lasting success.
-The Career Fitness Workbook. This book introduces a complete regimen of activities that will help you successfully compete for and hang onto the job of your dreams. Think of it as "the habits of highly effective career activists."
-The Career Activist Republic. This blockbuster of a book provides a provocative yet positive assessment of the changing world of work in the American economy and describes an innovative strategy that will enable you to avoid the pitfalls and capture the opportunities in this new environment.
The Success Matrix: Wisdom from the Web on How to Get Hired and Not Be Fired. This anthology collects the best of Peter Weddle's columns on job search and career success. It is the only book you'll find that provides a candid and totally up-to-date look at how to get and stay ahead in today's workplace.
-Recognizing Richard Rabbit. This fable for adults will entertain and delight you and help you out of the boxes that keep you from becoming the champion inside you. It is a novel and engaging way to recognize the talented person you are meant to be.
-Job Nation: The 100 Best Employment Sites on the Web. This unique guide is drawn from other published WEDDLE's research, which the American Staffing Association described as the "Zagat" of job search sites. It has all of the information you'll need to be a smart shopper among the 100,000+ job boards and social media sites now operating online.
These books are available at www.Amazon.com, or, if you'd like your copy autographed by the author, order it at Weddles.com.
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Springtime = hiring time at The Home Depot
The Home Depot is ramping up for a busy spring, and that means the world’s largest home improvement retailer is looking to hire more than 80,000 seasonal associates to assist their customers during the company’s busiest season. As both the company’s busiest hiring and selling period, spring is their annual peak season, similar to the Christmas season for many retailers.
This year, The Home Depot is hiring 10,000 more spring associates than it did last year to support an anticipated increase in sales.
“Spring is always a special season for us when we can offer employment opportunities for literally tens of thousands of Americans,” said Tim Crow, executive vice president—Human Resources. “We find some of our best associates during our peak season, and many of them have built long, meaningful careers with us.”
Job opportunities range from part-time to full-time and are available across the U.S. based on individual store needs and geographical differences in weather. Job seekers can begin applying online today at http://www.careers.homedepot.com.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VETERANS
The Home Depot is committed to supporting our nation’s military and has plenty of resources available to help them find their fit. The company recently launched its Military Skills Translator Tool, which is designed to help translate and match an applicant’s military skills to positions that might offer the best career fit.
The company has also partnered with military-focused career fairs and will be participating in multiple events throughout the year.
MILITARY BENEFITS
The Home Depot has hired more than 60,000 veterans since 2004 and that’s a point of pride for the company. But, they also offer support to those veterans even after they’re hired.
The Home Depot offers three main forms of support:
• Job portability & transfer opportunities • Continuation of benefits • Supplemental pay
The job portability benefit, in particular, is really helpful for active duty service members and spouses who are reassigned or transferred. The Home Depot’s large network of retail locations and distribution centers provides the opportunity to stay within the organization even if you need to relocate.
VetJobs, G.I. Jobs magazine and Military Spouse magazine have all named The Home Depot a top military-friendly employer.
TAKE A NEW STEP IN YOUR CAREER
The Home Depot is looking for hard working candidates to add to its family of associates. It’s a great opportunity to join a top-flight company, and many of their seasonal associates even transition to more permanent roles later in the year.
If you’re ready to look for a new career, apply today to The Home Depot through their website.
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,256 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. Learn more about The Home Depot and apply online today at www.careers.homedepot.com.
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3. WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award Recipients
For ten years recruiters and candidates have been able to vote for those Internet career and employment sites they think are the best of the Internet. This award is the pinnacle of achievement for an internet career site as the award is vetted by the users! VetJobs congratulates these awardees as they are the best of the best!
Here are the 2013 awardees: AbsolutelyHealthCare.com;AfterCollege.com; AllHealthcareJobs.com; AllRetailJobs.com; CareerBank.com; CareerBuilder.com; The Chronicle of Higher Education (Chronicle.com); Climber.com; CollegeRecruiter.com; CoolWorks.com; Dice.com; EHSCareers.com; EmploymentGuide.com; ExecuNet.com; FlexJobs.com; Hcareers.com; HigherEdJobs.com; HospitalDreamJobs.com; Indeed.com; Job.com; JobsinLogistics.com; JobsinTrucks.com; LiveCareer.com; MilitaryHire.com; Monster.com; RecruitMilitary.com; SimplyHired.com; SnagAJob.com; TopUSAJobs.com; and VetJobs.com
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TECHEXPO Top Secret’s next career fairs are:
3/5, TechExpo Top Secret Career Expo, Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton, 1700 Tysons Blvd. McLean, VA, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, go online to register http://www.techexpousa.com; Hiring Event for all levels of Security-Cleared professionals.
3/12, TechExpo Top Secret Career Expo, Hilton San Antonio, 9800 Westover Hills Blvd, San Antonio, TX, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, go online to register http://www.techexpousa.com; Hiring Event for all levels of Security-Cleared professionals.
3/19, TechExpo Top Secret Career Expo, BWI Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road Linthicum Heights, MD, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, go online to register http://www.techexpousa.com; Hiring Event for all levels of Security-Cleared professionals.
Interview with leading government contractors! Full schedule, event details, & pre-registration are available at www.TechExpoUSA.com. The career fair is for professionals with active or recent security clearances only. Free admission. If you attend a TECHEXPO career fair, please indicate you learned of the career fair from VetJobs.
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4. TD Bank Helps Veterans Become Franchise Owners
The International Franchise Association and TD Bank have announced an initiative for military veterans who want to enter the franchise industry. TD Bank says it will offer low interest rates and fee waivers on loan applications to veterans from Maine to Florida. "A military background provides veterans with important skills and traits that we see in small-business owners," said Rich Bradshaw, head of SBA lending at TD Bank. Worcester Business Journal - http://www.wbjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130221/NEWS01/130229987/0/DATAJOE
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Veterans interested in learning about franchise ownership are invited to join a FREE webinar “Veterans Exploring Franchise Ownership”. Learn how you can leverage your military experience through franchise ownership and how your unique qualifications improve your chances for success.
Senior Franchise Consultant, Laurie Pollock, and retired Army Captain and 2-time franchise owner, Christian Germain, will explain how to evaluate franchise opportunities, the training and support franchisors offer, as well as discounts for veterans – including one franchise in particular that is waiving the entire franchise fee for qualified veterans. They’ll open up the lines at the end of the webinar to answer your individual questions.
The next webinar date is Monday, March 4th at 4:00 PM central time. To register, please visit http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=E953DB87854D31
Interested veterans who cannot attend the webinar can request a one-on-one consultation. Always free! Contact lauriepollock@franchoice.com or 800-818-9929
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5. 2012-2013 Dice Salary Survey
Technology salaries in the U.S. saw the biggest jump in more than a decade, according to the 2013-2012 Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineer professionals. Tech professionals earned a greater than five percent increase in average annual wages to $85,619, up from $81,327 in 2011. The increase in wages comes at a time when the vast majority of tech professionals (64%) are confident they could find a favorable new position in 2013 and when employers are stepping up to the plate to retain and motivate staff with more interesting or challenging assignments, increased compensation and the ability to telecommute, according to respondents. See http://media.dice.com/report/2013-2012-dice-salary-survey/?goback=%2Egde_1606897_member_218489753 for more information.
6. SCAM ALERT: Poaching Veterans' Pensions
Veterans and their families are targets for some dishonest advisers who are claiming to offer free help with paperwork for pension claims. The scheme involves attorneys, financial planners, and insurance agents trying to get veterans to make decisions about their pensions, without giving them the whole truth. These unscrupulous brokers try to convince veterans to transfer their assets to a trust or to invest in insurance products. What they don't reveal is that these transactions could mean the loss of eligibility for Medicaid services or loss of access to their money for a long time. Adding insult to injury, the advisers are charging fees that range from hundreds to thousands of dollars for their services.
Learn more: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0349-poaching-veterans-pensions
7. SCAM ALERT: "Veterans Affairs Services" Organization Not Affiliated, Getting Vet IDs
The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has requested dissemination of the following: An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing benefit and general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans. "This organization is not affiliated with VA in any way. The organization described itself at its web page at: http://www.vaservices.org/us/index.html. VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close resemblance to the VA name and seal. Our Legal Counsel has requested that we coordinate with DOD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of this group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any services. In addition, GC requests that if you have any examples of VAS acts that violate chapter 59 of Title 38 United States Code, such as VAS employees assisting veterans in the preparation and presentation of claims for benefits, please pass any addi tional information to the VA.
8. Reservists at 900 Colleges May Lose Tuition Assistance
The Defense Department may end tuition assistance for active-duty soldiers and reservists at more than 900 colleges that haven't signed a memorandum of understanding. Nearly 10% of active and reserve soldiers who draw tuition assistance attend schools that haven't signed the memorandum, according to Dr. Pamela Raymer of the Human Resources Command. The deadline to sign the memorandum is Friday. Source: Army Times
9. Sequestration Could Dim Job Prospects for Veterans
Troop reductions related to sequestration would create a flood of service members returning to civilian life and could make it more difficult for those service members to find jobs, says a local Veterans Services official in Wisconsin. Veterans Services offices are already handling a steady stream of unemployed and underemployed vets, the official said. Source: The Wausau Daily Herald, WI
10. VetJobs Recommends: Ready, Set, Go – 10 steps to building a career – David Reddick
This is an outstanding career book written by a recruiter who has held leadership positions with the Coca-Cola Company. Since 1984 Reddick has been an executive search consultant had has successfully filled middle-management and senior-level positions for numerous companies worldwide. This is a must read book to understand how recruiters will look at you and the importance of a positive, enthusiastic attitude. Ready, Set, Go can be ordered from www.amazon.com.
11. National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated as of February 26, 2013
The total number currently on active duty from the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 38,724; Navy Reserve, 4,140; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 7,629; Marine Corps Reserve, 2,117; and the Coast Guard Reserve, 547. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel who have been activated to 53,157, including both units and individual augmentees. A cumulative roster of all National Guard and Reserve personnel who are currently activated may be found online at http://www.defense.gov/news/MobilizationWeeklyReport022613.pdf
12. Significant Events this Month in Military History
1802 - Congress established the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
1815 - Congress declared war against the Barbary Pirates in Algeria, seeking an end to their interference with American shipping in the Mediterranean Sea.
1836 - End of 13 day siege of the Alamo, San Antonio TX, where 183 Americans held off 3,000 Mexican troops before being overwhelmed.
1846 - American forces under General Zachary Taylor moved across the Rio Grande River into Mexican territory, officially beginning hostilities during the Mexican War.
1862 - Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia destroyed Union vessels USS Cumberland and USS Congress, and damaged the USS Minnesota in waters off Hampton Roads and Fort Monroe, VA.
1915 - Congress established the U. S. Naval Reserve.
1918 - Second Battle of the Somme in France began with a German offensive.
1931 – President Hoover signs legislation making the Star Spangled Banner the official national anthem of the United States.
1941 - General Erwin Rommel began his first offensive against the British Army in Libya.
1942 - The first American "Seabees" saw action in New Caledonia, an island in the southwest Pacific, as they landed and began construction of base facilities.
1949 - U.S. Air Force Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop flight around the world, refueling several times in mid-flight.
1965 - First US ground combat force, the 3,500 man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, arrived at Danang, South Vietnam for the start of the Vietnam War.
1972 - North Vietnamese forces launched a massive attack south across the Demilitarized zone, during the Vietnam War.
1995 - Somalia Campaign ended.
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
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