10 Career and Business Opportunities


Encouraging Entrepreneurship for Military Spouses


Volume 12 Number 8


May 2018


Army Command Sergeant Major Earl E. Lee to Lead in Orlando


BY MICHELLE CHRISTIAN, SBA MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR, OP-ED Each May we memorialize the


community-based


men and women who sacrifice their lives defending our freedom. Often forgotten are the military spouses who give their all to maintain households and raise children. On May 23, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the first proclamation declaring Military Spouse Day. Now celebrated the Friday before Mother’s Day, National Spouse Day is a day to recognize these heroes of the armed services – the husbands and wives of our servicemen and women. Military families make incredible sacrifices, which includes leaving their careers and career development opportunities due to frequent relocations in support of military commitments.


military spouses is 23 percent, and considering


The unemployment rate among 85 percent


say they


want to or need to work, that is unacceptable.


When the average


household relies on two incomes, it should come as no surprise military families find themselves in similar need. I am encouraged by employers who are increasingly looking for ways to


attract such military spouses through technology as allowing them


to work remotely. I’d like to point out another option supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration – Entrepreneurship: military spouses running their own businesses can be empowering, liberating, and highly adaptable to a mobile lifestyle.


As SBA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator, I am committed


to


helping more people have the tools and skills they need to be entrepreneurs. We and our partners have online and


even have


resources across


the country offering access to capital, training, and business opportunities. We


special outreach


specifically geared to military spouses through programs on military installations.


These programs are available through your local SBA District Offices and our resource partners. Visit SBA.gov to learn more about local resources (https://www.sba.gov/tools/ local-assistance/districtoffices), and more opportunities from SBA’s Office of Veterans Business Development (www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/ ovbd/resources/1485216).


working


As we look ahead, SBA is with


the Department of


Labor and Department of Defense to reduce barriers to business ownership and cross-state credentialing military spouses. For example,


for if


someone has a real estate license or a hairstylist’s license in one state, it should be easier to transition those credentials to another state.


Today, there are more than a


million military spouses – 700,000 active duty and 400,000 reserve/ guard. Each has a broad diversity of talents and experiences SBA can help build into careers. We must help military spouses succeed and feel empowered, because they sacrifice for all of us. After all, each and every small business contributes to America’s economic prosperity, which further strengthens this great nation


our defend. military is working to


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Te U.S. Army Command


Sergeant Major Earl E. Lee, command sergeant major with the 642 nd Regional Support Group, Decatur Georgia, was selected to lead the 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Orlando, FL.


recently relocated to Orlando, FL to assume duties as


Lee, who resided in Virginia, the CSM. Te


143d ESC is the largest Sustainment Expeditionary Command in the U.S. Army, with mission command of more than 10,000 Soldiers, civilians, and contractors across more than eight states in the Southeast U.S. Te 143d ESC is composed of more than 100 Army Reserve units whose mission


are diverse and logistical in nature. Te mission of the 143d ESC is to provide Mission Command of


sustainment


forces and to conduct sustainment, deployment, redeployment and retrograde operations in support of U.S. and multinational forces.


River High School of


Lee is a 1977 graduate of Indian in Chesapeake,


VA, 1984 graduate of Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA with a Bachelor


Science in Electronic


Engineering, and a 1997 graduate of Syracuse University in Syracuse NY with a Master of Science in Information Resource Management. He is also the owner of JaNay's Cleaners in Chesapeake.


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