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Virginia Military Job Fairs

HirePatriots has worked with Corporate Gray since 2008. Carl Savino, the president of Corporate Gray is a friend and an ally of  mine in our mutual effort to serve US veterans.

The Corporate Gray Job Fairs for the Military Community are held near major military installations across the country, allowing companies the opportunity to meet face-to-face with transitioning/former military personnel and civilians. FREE to all Job Seekers.

Meet Great Employers on February 9th in Virginia Beach

Corporate Gray Connects Veterans with Employers

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet face-to-face with both local and nationwide employers and schools at the February 9th Corporate Gray Job Fair for the Military Community. This event will be held from 10 am to 2 pm at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. It’s especially for transitioning and former military of all ranks and branches of service but open to all job seekers.

Make the most of your time by meeting with representatives from many companies, including Amazon, L-3 Communications, State Farm, Verizon, URS, American Systems, Portsmouth Police Department, ECPI University and many more, in one day and in one place. Business attire recommended. Bring many copies of your resume. And be sure to register in advance by visiting www.CorporateGray.com. Good luck!

HirePatriots.com is working with Corporate Gray to extend your ability to connect with “military friendly” employers nationwide.

Corporate Gray Books / Job Fairs / Online

P: (703) 690-6381 * F: (703) 690-1687
Email: Carl@CorporateGray.com
Web: www.CorporateGray.com

Connecting employers with military veterans nationwide!

These are some of the heart-felt requests we get to attend our military marriage retreats. It gives you a glimpse into the hardships of being married in the military and the critical need for these retreats.

HirePatriots' 501c3 Non-Profit

Hello Hire patriots,

I am writing to you because my husband and I are interested in attending this retreat. we have been married almost 13 years, and have 2 beautiful children from it. My husband is a United States Marine and has been in the Marine Corps for 7 years. We love all that the military life has to offer, yet I will say that in all our years of marriage we have never had to endure so many trials and tribulations than we have while being part of the military. This life takes a toll on many and yet it may be a rewarding experience that one can learn from in so many aspects. I love my husband dearly but we have such busy schedules and at times as many couples seem to go through we have forgotten what first brought us together and has created this home. It all started with two people that fell in love, I would think this would be the perfect opportunity to engage in that reconnection with eachother and not only emotionally but spiritually come together once again.

Hi there!

First of all I would like to say thank you for offering this awesome opportunity for couples! It is very generous and thoughtful and even if we aren’t blessed enough to attend, I would like to offer my gratitude.

My husband and I have been married for just about 4 years. I first met him in sophomore year in high school and from then on I had the biggest crush on him! Finally, in senior year he asked me out. He was my first boyfriend and vice versa! Towards the end of the school year he made the decision to join the Navy as a Corpsman in order to earn the GI bill. As much as I had no desire to be a military wife or live that lifestyle, I supported him. Fast forward 4.5 years and we are now married with 2 kids, one 7 months and one 20 months. Having two babies so close together has been very trying on our marriage due to stress and lack of sleep, as well as just a general lack of bonding time for the two of us. Sometimes I go back and read old emails from him and it reminds me of why I married him. He is truly a thoughtful, caring and selfless man. It’s just hard to remember that through all the cries and constant feeding of babies I would love to have the opportunity to attend this retreat with him to recapture the feeling of closeness and intimacy that feels as if it is all but lost at times. He and I always talk about how we would love to get some time to ourselves, but it can be a financial burden that we always feel we would regret in the future. Luckily, we have family not too far (Las Vegas) that would be available to watch our babies. This would be the perfect chance for us to have that special time together.

Thank you again and I hope we are chosen!!

Hi Tori,

I saw your post on the Pendleton Underground, although I am from Twentynine Palms. This opportunity couldn’t have come at a better time and I think it is really something that my husband and I could hugely benefit from.

I thought our marriage of 4 years was going perfectly back in March, until I found out my husband had cheated on me. Since then we have tried working through our problems and from a day to day perspective things are back to normal and things are “okay” again. The real problem now is just letting myself to be in love with him again, and romantically & spiritually reconnecting our love. I feel like we love each other but we are not IN love. I can’t speak for him because through all of this he says he has never fallen out of love with me, I feel his past and current actions speak otherwise.

Throughout all of this, my husband has recently been diagnosed with brain injury from his deployment in 2010. It is extremely hard to focus on us when all we can do is worry about his doctors appointments and if he is going to be okay. His injury makes it hard for him to remember things and focus, so I get extremely frustrated having to remind him of things constantly or just trying to get his attention. It defiantly doesn’t help our situation, but we are both trying hard to cope with it and do our best.

I honestly want our marriage to work out, and just to be happily in love like we were. I know its in us, but its gonna take some digging. I think a 3 day trip to the beach, away from home is just what it could take. We need this opportunity to focus on US and not get hung up in everyday life and let the small things in life consume us.

I hope to hear back!

Hi, I am the proud wife of a Ssgt. We been married for 6 years and almost 4 months but we have been together building our family for 11 years. We have 3 boys ages 13, 8 & 7 and 1 adorable 1 year old cat name Pearl. Do to having 3 kids it’s kind of hard to find time for us. All we do it’s as a family and we do enjoy and love it but from time to time alone time is greatly appreciated even do “alone” time for us might be a 2 hour movie in the living room . Like every other military couple we have had ours up and downs. Trials of courage and commitment not just to each other but to the family. Our loyalty to each other had also been tested not only ones or twice. We been together through 3 deployments and a 3 year recruiting duty in New Jersey which I hated. It put us to the ultimate test. Now we are in the final days before our 4th deployment Next week we will start our pre-deployment leave block which like for everyone else it’s a sad time but we know he will be back in a few months If we would be one of the chosen ones we would take full advantage of this opportunity. Thank you very much for the opportunity and your time.

Sincerely,

Hello,
I am interested in going to your retreat on marriage. My husband and I have been married for 4 yrs and together 6. we have 4 children. We have had ups and downs as most marriages do. with my husbands last deployment it took a toll on us. We are always striving to keep our marriage better even when we are not getting along. we are open to information and ideas that have worked for others. I think anyone in this life style could use something like this and it seems like it would be a great bonding experience for me and my husband.

Thanks for your consideration!

Hi there,
I saw your listing recently for the upcoming marriage retreat for Nov. 11-13th. My husband is currently working at SOI as an Instructor and for the last year he’s had such a busy schedule to where we’ve only seen him 2-3 days a week. They finally released him into doing “quota” for the next year which means he’s home by 5pm and has weekends off! What a blessing. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary on the 5th, although we haven’t technically “celebrated” it yet. This would be a great opportunity for us to find that connection that’s been pushed aside because of busy schedules.
Thanks.

These retreats are made possible by the donations of patriotic citizens and businesses. It takes $6000 to host a retreat. — If you can donate, please do so: http://bit.ly/pG6nMb

Corporate Gray Military Job Fair in Norfolk

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You are invited to meet face-to-face with 40 top employers at the Friday, October 14th Corporate Gray Military Job Fair at the Hilton Norfolk Airport Hotel. Job fair hours are 10 am to 2 pm with free, employment-related seminars starting at 8 am and 9 am.

Some of the participating employers include: Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, URS, Amazon, U.S. Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration, L-3 Communications, Sodexo, Microsoft, Verizon, Newport News Shipbuilding, Carter Machinery, Optima Health, and Alion Science & Technology. This job fair is especially for transitioning and former military of all ranks/ratings and branches of service. Business attire recommended. Bring many copies of your resume.

To see a complete list of companies registered and to pre-register, visit www.CorporateGray.com.

Corporate Gray Military Job Fair

Hilton Norfolk Airport Hotel

1500 North Military Highway

Norfolk, VA 23502

HirePatriots has received a $5000 donation from an anonymous, Christian couple to host another Military Marriage Retreat. It will occur either on the first or second weekend of November, 2011. It will be held in North San Diego, Ca.

A Time to Romantically Reconnect

HirePatriots’ marriage retreats for our US military and recent veterans are a grassroots, community effort. And that is one reason why our retreats work for the troops. –They know that this is a volunteer effort of caring citizens that have pulled together to make their retreat possible.

We keep our retreats small and intimate. (It works better.) So we invite 14 couples and then we have 4-6 volunteers that help counsel, encourage and serve. (18 – 20 people in all.)

Ideally, if we can find companies to become sponsors and limit our costs, we can stretch this retreat into more retreats.

Hotel:

Of course, this is the big one. It needs to be very nice and romantic. It needs to have suites vs. rooms. It should have a view and a heated pool. And it needs a comfortable room in which to meet, or a large suite’s livingroom (that’s the best).

Tori and I are terrible negotiators. So we need someone who can get the best price for us. (I think we have this covered this time.)

Photographer(s):

We sometimes get a photographer to volunteer. In particular, we need them on Sunday. This is when we rent a flowered arbor and a pretty wedding cake. — We take a picture of each couple beneath the bower cutting the wedding cake after they repeat their marriage vows.

We also ask our volunteers to focus on two or three couples and to take candid pictures of them, (secretly), during the retreat. Then we paste these around the picture of them cutting the cake.

Memorial Frames:

One of the most important things we do is time consuming; but, extremely effective: We make pictorial memorials of their retreat experience and put the pictures in individual picture frames for each couple. (On the back are the names and contacts for our counselors. — Whenever they are in conflict or hurting, they take their frame off the wall and call a counselor.)

Breakfast:

We need breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings. — Cooking facilities will be available at the hotel we choose. (Usually we have two suites reserved for our volunteers, and these have kitchens.) — I know that some community clubs do this, like the Rotary or Lions Club, etc. — But we will take any sincere offer to assist us. It can be a club, church, business, or just a collection of patriotic residents.

Restaurants:

We need volunteers to contact nice restaurants nearby our retreat to provide lunch and dinner on Saturday.

Grocery Store:

We need snacks and buffet of deli selections for Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

Gift Baskets:

We like to have a nice, little basket of romantic knick-knacks and gifts in their rooms to greet them when they arrive.

Learning Materials:

We use a tremendous video series for our retreats that has proven to be very effective and fun for our couples. It is called “Love & Respect.” — We want to provide the workbooks for this series. They are $11.00 each.

Sponsorships:

We always try to use the initial donation for our retreats to bring in more donations. That is the way we were able to take a grant from the SD Supervisors for a retreat a few years ago and turn it into 6 retreats.– Of course businesses want to benefit from helping us. And what we offer in return is amazing and well worth any donation.

In addition to putting their banner on our website, we also create a permanent blog about their business and their support. We put this on our homepage and send it to all of the major social networks. We also keyword it so that it will appear when people search for their product or service on the Internet.

And if they want their banner to continue on our site, we just ask for $125 a month. (A $275 monthly discount.) Our site ranks in the top 1% of all global and US websites.

They can even get their own customized HirePatriots website, blog and job board, in addition to the above, if they make an additional donation to our non-profit’s veteran employment program.

PS. One of the special things we would like to add this year is to rent a dinner boat in the harbor and take the couples for a romantic cruise (weather permitting).

PPS. Here is a link to pictures and info about our previous retreats: http://bit.ly/cjRHpc

Mark & Tori Baird
CEO HirePatriots.com &
Patriotic Hearts 501 c3 non-profit
760-730-3734

Past Chairmen: CA Economic Council
Past Secretaries: United Veteran Council

From President Bush: The Congressional Medal of Merit
From President Obama: President’s Call to Service Medal
From San Diego: The Visionary Award for Creating Economic Development
From the Chamber of Commerce: The Extra Mile Award
From ABC TV: The Leadership Award
From U.S. Veterans & Families: Liberty
From Jesus Christ: Purpose & Eternal Life

HirePatriots Recruiters,

Earn Money and Help Vets from Home

We will have a training this Saturday (today) for those interested in recruiting companies to support our cause. We have a variety of options for businesses to do so. You will get paid for every “sale.” Some of these sales are yearly. If you make that sale, you will be paid again every year that they re-donate.

Our commissions are are very high for a reason: Our Mission is to provide a means for veetrans to support themselves and their families!

We have several veterans on our team with decades of experience to support you. But in particular, we have an award winning military recruiter and Master Sergeant, Gabriel Fierro, who will be training you and helping you to succeed also.

Free Conference Call

Saturday, July 8, 2011: 10 AM PST & Saturday July, 8, 2011: 1 PM PST
Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 562-3000
Participant Access Code: 132379#

If you are unable to make this call, we will also have a training next Saturday at these times too. (If these times cannot fit your schedule, please call and set a training time that does.)

Our goal is to give you a satisfying job that supports you and your family and helps other U.S. military, past and present, to do so too.

Let’s get you ready to go by next week!

Mark & Tori Baird
HirePatriots.com
760-730-3734

Chairmen: CA Economic Council
Secretaries: United Veteran Council

From President Bush: The Congressional Medal of Merit
From President Obama: The Call to Service Award
From San Diego: The Visionary Award for Creating Economic Development
From the Chamber of Commerce: The Extra Mile Award
From ABC TV: The Leadership Award
From U.S. Veterans & Families: Liberty
From Jesus Christ: Purpose & Eternal Life