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Expert Profile: Rod Powers

Expertise:  Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the Internet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. In addition, he is the co-author of "ASVAB For Dummies (first edition)," published by Wiley Publishing in 2003, the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series in November 2006, the author of "ASVAB for Dummies, 2nd Edition," scheduled to be published by Wiley in June 2007. He's currently working on "World War I for Dummies," scheduled to be published by Wiley, in the spring of 2008.

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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.

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Recent Answers from Rod Powers
2008-01-25  Airforce Hi Javier, The maximum age for a non-prior service enlistment in the active duty Air Force is age 27. The maximum age for a non-prior service enlistment in the Air Force Reserves, or Air National Guard...
2008-01-24  crossing over from navy to coastguard Hi Anthonie, Okay, first of all, you can't "convert" from the Navy to the Coast Guard. You would first have to complete your Navy enlistment obligation, then get out of the Navy, and then apply to join...
2008-01-24  What Army medals,decorations,and badges are authorized to wear on the marine corps uniform? Hi Christopher, You know, a few years ago, I wrote an article, titled "Knowledge is Power" (see: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/publicationsregulations/a/knowledge.htm). The gist of the article is...
2008-01-23  contact Hi Devin, Your chances of re-entering any of the branches of the Military with an asthma attack are very, very, very, very poor (probably non-existent). Asthma is a medical disqualifier, unless one...
2008-01-23  Medical issue's and enlisting? Hi Jay, These particular medical conditions aren't specifically mentioned in the list of medical conditions which are disqualifying for military service (see: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/intmedstandards...
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