My company has been retained by a broadband technology company founded by a telecommunication's giant.  The company is in a high growth phase of their evolution after their IPO earlier this year.  They are seeking both former JMOs with private sector experience and transitioning JMOs to help lead their sales teams in markets throughout the country.  These sales management roles offer high visibility, great financial reward potential to include stock options, terrific career growth, and overall a ground floor opportunity to join a company being led by a winning and dynamic leadership team.  To learn more about this position, please follow this link, http://www.recruitmilitary.com/broadbandsales/.  Our client has these dynamic sales management positions available in the cities below:

OR:  Portland                                FL :  Jacksonville                          

NY: Rochester and Albany              WA :  Seattle and Tacoma

NC: Charlotte                               NV:   Reno

VA:   Richmond                              CA :  Sacramento , Stockton , Chico , Redding

Additionally, we have scheduled interview days on the dates below with a senior VP of this client in these cities:

Sept 6 – Rochester , NY

Sept 18 – Seattle , WA

Sept 27 – Portland , OR

Oct 5  - Sacramento , CA

Classmates, Shipmates, Friends and Family,

The date on my watch tells me we are fast approaching another season of Navy Football and it's time for us to dust off our tailgating playbook.  John Woods is having your ‘Class of 2000 Blimp' inspected and certified by the FAA for another series of offensive flights.  Todd Bruner has been scanning the party games of the world to put together some great tailgating events.  Steven Vaughn has conducted taste test after taste test to decide on just the right beer menu, and I have been searching and begging around every corner to build and stretch our tailgating dollars.  Despite our best efforts, we were unable to secure our own perimeter tailgating site this year.  Never fear, we will continue to cajole, bully and infuriate the parking lot attendants to ensure we have ample space for our parties.  With a season of successful tailgaters behind us, we find ourselves well prepared to meet all your expectations and more this year.  With the conference and blessing of our Class President, we will be adding an informal reunion this year at the Navy vs. Air Force game on Sept. 29.  If you are considering coming to town for a game and are having trouble picking the right weekend, make it the Air Force game.  Murph has already confirmed his attendance.

Now to the pressing business of how we will pay for all of this.  We have devised an annual membership program this year.  This is by no means required; however it does help remove some of the guesswork when it comes to budgeting the season.  The membership will work as follows:  single members pay $100 up front via Paypal for the entire season and non-single members pay $200 for the season.  Let's face it, you spend much more time with us than you do watching games and they cost much more.  If this sounds good, please use the wardroom mess paypal link and pay before Sept. 8.  As a show of thanks we will give annual members a customized beer mug to commemorate the season.  Bring the mug along to games to avoid being hit up for cash.  We will have extras available for purchase (check out the 24 oz. Bavarian at greyfoxpottery.com).  For those that choose to pass up the membership route, you can again pay ahead of each game.  If you are having trouble deciding how much to give, Andy Hartman has extended his enlistment as our on-site thug.  He has and will reach directly into your pockets to ensure you have thanked us properly.

Fellas, I wish I was sending this out under better pretenses; One of our fellow brothers, Dominick "Fatty" Floyd, was injured onWednesday in Iraq.  Please keep him and Alys, and the rest of the family in your prayers.

I spoke with Alys and if they'd let him he'd be in Iraq clearing house of all those bastards.  He's stubborn enough that the doctors are going to kick him out of the hospital in no time! His platoon was sweeping out an area that had already suffered an I.E.D. attack, when another one went off directly underneath him.  He will be undergoing surgery next week at Bethesda for his leg, arm, and repair of an artery.  They cleaned out the shrapnel from his abdomen, and he is doing well.

Thank God that Fatty is doing well.  Please keep him and all our soldiers in your prayers......how lucky we are to have courageous warriors like this.

Jon Fay

If you are available or know someone who might be, please contact my father, Greg Hopeman, at one of the numbers below.

Gregory A. Hopeman, CFP®
Director - Branch Manager - Tulsa
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Advisory & Brokerage Services
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866-254-3284 - Toll Free
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Donated 100 to the blimp 10/12

Great news!!  We have a match!!!  Please see Justin's comments below:

Just wanted to let everyone know that I now have a bone marrow donor
identified who is a perfect match in all aspects that are checked for DNA
(10 out of 10) and blood, viruses, etc.  To boot we also have 2 other 10 out
of 10 donors identified as back-up donors.  So basically, I hit the bone
marrow lotto jackpot.  The primary donor is a 30 yr old female from Germany.

I will be headed to Seattle on 25 Sept.  to start my new journey.  The
first two weeks will be comprehensive testing of my everything functions.  I
will then start my total body irradiation for 3 days, twice a day on 13 Oct.

After that I have 2 days of chemo and then a rest day and I will get my
transfer tentatively on 20 Oct.  From then on it will be a minimum of 100
days observation before I can leave so I will be in Seattle until at least
the beginning of February.  The first 10-28 days will be spent in a
quarantine room until my bone marrow grows back and I have an immune system.
After that I will start with daily outpatient treatments will gradually taper off until I am going to the hospital about 1 a week and I am ready to be discharged.

This is great news and couldn't really be any better.  Suzanne and I are
both very excited and can't wait to move on to the next step in my healing. 
To be honest we're not too excited about the cold, rain, and gloom, but we
hear that they have plenty of good seafood to make up for it.  We'll be
keeping in touch with everything, and just want to say thanks so much to
everyone so far that has sent us a card, cookies, or just said that they
were thinking of us.  All the thoughts have definitely made it easier for us
to cope with.  We're not out of the woods yet but at least we know where the
finish line is now.  Thanks for reading and please keep in touch.

Justin

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As football season approaches Todd Brunner has taken the helm and is organizing yet another amazing Tailgate season for the class of 2000.   John Woods is also taking the lead in purchasing a Class of 2000 blimp. 

Todd Bruner here:

Y2K and Friends,

This week marks the beginning of yet another football season but potentially an even better flip cup and pong tournament.

Saturday:  Kickoff 530pm, gator starts at 300pm.

I am hosting this weekend's gator and will be at the same place last year:  Home side, last car(Red dodge truck) in the line of cars extending from the 50 yard line.  '00 Flag will be flying wind permitting.  There should be a blue recycle bin at the end.  Attached is a picture map if needed.

Food will be standard, burgers, dogs, fixins, snacks, and desserts.  Beer will be cold.  If you have a special type that you prefer to sock down in the flip cup or pong tourneys then you are on your own.

Donations- kindly accepted for the poor sap that runs the gator for the UMASS game(the following weekend).

Weather-  High 79, Low 65; 30% chance of rain.  We've powered through the rain in the past so don't let that hold you from coming, Evil KinAndy also promised more garbage bag carrier landings if it rains.

Parking- If you get there early, there is plenty of parking on the street by my house, corner of Poplar and N Linden.

Last but not least-  New USNA drinking policy for Mids and LTs, 0-0-1-3:  0 drinking and driving, 0 under age alcohol, 1 drink per hour, 3 drinks per event*.

* Event defined as one flip cup or pong challenge.

To simplify this process, a new page will be setup on our website by the start of next week with a PAYPAL account.  Instead of Todd and RIIS having to track everyone down each week, we will use our new paypal account to collect funds and the Blog on our website will be used to spread information about upcoming tailgaters and events.

If you are going to be in the Annapolis area I highly suggest you stop by.  When you have RIIS, Brunner, and Woods throwing a party, it is not to be missed.

In late May, Justin realized something was wrong when he was unable to complete a five-mile run. He had pains in his ribs and they moved to his shoulders. "He knew something was drastically wrong," said his sister. On June 2, he was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia and he needs a bone marrow stem cell transplant to be cured. The first place doctors look is at a sibling for a proper blood match, but when they tested his two sisters neither was a match. "It was a crushing blow," said Pinedo.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, a bone marrow donor drive will be held at the cafeteria at Spotswood High School. The drive is sponsored by the C.W. Bill Young Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program. Additional information about this and other drives may be found at www.dodmarrow.com. Justin's family was given permission to publicize the event, with one restriction: Because Justin is an active-duty member of the Navy SEALs, and the United States is at war, his last name cannot be included in the publicity. That's OK, said his sister, adding, "Everybody in Spotswood knows my brother."

Justin is hospitalized at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where he celebrated his 28th birthday on the Fourth of July. "He intends to beat the cancer into remission so that he may continue serving the nation as a Navy SEAL," according to a letter his sisters, Jodi and Kim, distributed to friends.

Justin, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000, served with the SEALs for seven months in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Most recently, he was serving as a training officer in Mississippi -- where he had to postpone his wedding from August to January while he repaired his house from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

The odds of finding a match for Justin are daunting, about one in 20,000. If a match is not made Saturday, it could be made elsewhere, at similar events. "This is not just for the benefit of my brother. The idea is to overpopulate the donor rolls," said Jodi."I am waiting for that phone call saying I could be a donor for someone. I would be on the next plane to wherever," said Jodi, who would love someday to tell a story similar to one told to me by Alana Shultz.

In 2000, Shultz, then an art major at Rutgers, went to a donor drive at the Rutgers Student Center. She was contacted in 2003 by the National Bone Marrow Donor Program as a possible match for a woman in Israel. After additional tests were positive, Shultz's blood was drawn at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and sent to Israel, where it was credited with saving the life of 28-year-old Anat Biton.

If both give their OK, donors and recipients can learn each other's identity, one year after the recipient receives the blood. Shultz and Biton agreed, and they met in Israel. "It was a life-changing event," said Shultz. "I was the only person in the world who could have saved Anat's life." What Justin's family is praying for is one person, wherever he or she may be.

Rick Malwitz's column appears Sundays and Thursdays. Contact him at Rmalwitz@thnt.com, (732) 565-7291.

Our intention is for this to be the first installment on this subject. If there are any questions you would like answered, please e-mail them to info@usna2000.com Thank you.

Greatings Classmates:

I'm the senior project manager in the R&D/Engineering Dept for American IronHorse Motorcycle Co. (we build custom choppers and cruisers) and I'm looking for academy grads that live the Dallas/Fort Worth area to fill 3 immediate openings.  The positions are for a project manager, mechanical engineer, and a senior mechanical engineer with a PE.  If you, or any other academy grad you know, are interested please email me your resume at john.freeman@americanironhorse.com or call me directly at 817-665-2071.  I need to fill these positions within the next two weeks. 

Thanks,

John Freeman

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