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Cover Story: Union Pacific Targets Former Military Personnel for Employment

Union Pacific Railroad will continue its aggressive hiring pace in 2006, at all levels, from train service to management. One employment pool Union Pacific Railroad continues to target is the Armed Forces -- particularly members of the military who are either retiring or looking for employment while remaining in the Reserves or National Guard. In recognition of its efforts to recruit and hire former members of the military, G. I. Jobs magazine -- a national monthly magazine that assists transitioning military members and veterans in their search for civilian employment -- named Union Pacific Railroad the nation’s top Military Friendly Employer for 2005.
World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars and Chairman Vince McMahon take Monday Night RAW to U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan

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Cover Story: WWE RAW Superstars Stand Tall With Troops in Afghanistan

World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars and Chairman Vince McMahon take Monday Night RAW to U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan, December 7-9. Hosted by Armed Forces Entertainment, the tour marks the third holiday "Tribute to the Troops" WWE has produced since 2003. The tour and a live-to-tape performance of RAW in Afghanistan will be presented as a WWE RAW holiday special to air on USA Network on December 19 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).
WASHINGTON -- After a career as a world-renowned, pioneer heart surgeon, 57-year-old William C. DeVries decided to serve in the Armed Forces.  The tall, lanky doctor, who implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Seattle dentist Barney Clark, signed on at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a Defense Department contractor. He also joined the Army Reserve.

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Cover Story: A Most Senior Recruit: Top Heart Surgeon Joins the Army

After a career as a world-renowned, pioneer heart surgeon, 57-year-old William C. DeVries decided to serve in the Armed Forces. After a career as a world-renowned, pioneer heart surgeon, William C. DeVries decided to serve in the Armed Forces. The doctor, who implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Seattle dentist Barney Clark, signed on at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a Defense Department contractor.
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Cover Story: ESGR and Schmitty Team Up To help Soldiers Say Thanks, Boss

The touching image of a small dog posing respectfully in front of the American flag will be coming in the mail to thousands of corporate bosses and small business owners soon. Even more moving will be the realization that this patriotic pooch's greeting card was sent by their employees who are overseas defending our country with the National Guard and Reserve. The code name for this special "pet" project, Operation: Thanks, Boss, is tied to the appropriate inscription inside the card that reads, Thanks for your support!
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Cover Story: To Assist Vet Entrepreneurs, SBA's Bill Elmore Innovates to Overcome Bureaucratic Inertia

Twenty years ago, "Jobs for Vets" was one of the rallying cries of advocates who cared about those who had returned to a less than rousing ’welcome home’ after serving in Southeast Asia. Forced to acknowledge that too many Vietnam veterans had been "left behind" their cohorts, agencies of government on the state and national level geared up to offer aid and comfort. Laws were enacted and programs were funded to train and place un- and under-employed veterans in career-path jobs. While some of these efforts, which are now well into their third decade, have worked out well, others have done little more than ensconce themselves in the roster of programs nourished by tax dollars.
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Cover Story: Modern Technology Weds Old'Time Storytelling at the Digital Clubhouse And Captures the Memories of Veterans

In 1996, a focus group sponsored by NASA came up with what was then a novel idea. Charged with thinking about how to narrow the "digital divide" between those with access to information technology and those for whom the advances in computer science were more science fiction than reality, the group hit upon the concept of a clubhouse: a place where the "haves" and the "have-nots," old and young and in between could come together to build community through "digital storytelling."
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Cover Story: Bob Hope

American entertainment icon Bob Hope may be getting on in years - he's 99 now - but he continues his unerring support of U.S. troops assigned stateside and deployed around the world. For more than half a century, the master of the one-liner, the "ambassador of good will," one of the most celebrated entertainers of the 20th century, has brought laughter and solace to GI's. Former Marine Corps Commandant General Carl E. Mundy, Jr., paid him perhaps the ultimate compliment, referring to Hope as "this magnificent soldier in greasepaint."

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