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Engineer. Aviator. Educator. Scientist.

Dual Coverture vs. Hypothetical Method – Military Divorce Retirement Division

This post is in the area of Family Law, addressing the situation when a military member earning a retirement becomes divorced and required by the court to divide their future retirement asset with a non-military spouse. This post addresses details … Continue reading

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Reservist Military Retirement Division

[Complete text is at a new location: http://www.increa.com/articles/division-military-retirement-dual-coverture] When dividing the marriage asset of military retirement pay due to divorce, the issues are superbly different than any other type of retirement. When dealing with normal civilian retirements, a coverture fraction … Continue reading

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Personal Security Using New Technology

The US Army created a good 1.1 MB slide presentation that explains personal security issues about using smart phones and the internet.  The lead off slide explains how one host of the Myth Busters unknowingly provided personal information to the … Continue reading

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Children’s Church

“Children’s Church” is intended to be a time of children ages ~3-7, having a dedicated time of song, teaching, and sermon(ette), separate from their parents, who simultaneously attend the normal church service. When I ask about children participating in the … Continue reading

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Biblical Fuzziness

Vagueness keeps you returning to God. If God wants you to keep coming to him, would he lay out a set of black and white rules and set you free to go execute them all? Would you do this with … Continue reading

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