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This video was created for HirePatriots by a Colonel at the Pentagon who leads their Christian Officers prayer meeting every Tuesday. — Thank you!

This is the first website and the first TV interview done for what is now HirePatriots.com. ( I was recovering from an allergic reaction that made my body and face swell-up. Oh vanity, vanity.)

Tori Baird, founder of HirePatriots.com, is stopped by local citizen who wanted to thank her for the help he has gotten from hiring local Marines from her website.

North County-based HirePatriots.com is going national.

The free military and veterans online job board started by the husband-and-wife team of Mark and Tori Baird six years ago in Oceanside now has websites in Hawaii, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Colorado, Virginia, South Carolina and seven other states.

The nonprofit’s goal, said Mark Baird, is to build a national veteran employment website covering 36 states within the next year that “will serve our veterans for decades. We want HirePatriots.com to be part of the fabric of American life.”

If the sounds overly ambitious consider this: Six months ago, HirePatriots.com was dead in the water, having suffered a cyber attack that permanently took down its lone website.

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Mark and Tori Baird went to Palm Springs to be on their biggest news station, KESQ. Jeff Stahl, who is the most popular news anchor in that region, gave the interview. He is truly a nice guy. And so he makes it easy to be interviewed.

There are a lot of patriotic people in the news industry. We have always been welcomed on TV and radio. — But it is also our story. HirePatriots does a lot of good for a lot of people.

It is a simple plan that does tremendous good for any community that embraces it. — The thousands of Marines, sailors and vets that we help to earn extra money in San Diego earned us the “Visionary Award for Creating Economic Development.” HirePatriots is one of the most important stimulators of the economy in all of San Diego County. Hundreds of businesses have been able to weather our current economic storm because of our local outreach.

Residents post jobs. GIs take the jobs. — The resident gets their work done. The GI earns extra money. The GI then spends that money at local businesses. And those businesses benefit from HirePatriots.com. — It is a circle of Good. — And we are rapidly spreading this across America. Veteran business owners are getting their own HirePatriots.com website for their region of the country. — Check out our Locations tab at the top of the home page.

Mark Baird