Sunday, April 11, 2010

Lauren Here

During my winter quarter a couple months back I was trying to figure out how to pay for the rest of the 2009-10 school year. I was also applying for the 2010-11 FAFSA as well as getting multiple scholarship applications in line. I heard about the My Career Advancement Program (MyCAA) from Julia and another friend of mine and we found that it had been shut down.

When I chose to do the interview with King 5 and the news paper article, I did it simply to speak up about a program that had been shut down irresponsibly. When the MyCAA program was approved, and put into effect with the guidelines they had (which were loose), they should have taken into account every single military spouse, not just made a generalization and assumption about how many spouses would apply. Why would a program be put into operation when there was not enough funds to fully back it up? That is my whole point in doing these interviews.

Since I was on the news and in many news papers across the country, so many misconceptions have been made about me, my intentions and even my character. Through this blogging process I hope to dispell those misconceptions about myself and the ignorance of military life.

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About Me

Lauren and Julia are Army spouses. Julia was able to apply for and use the MyCAA grant, and Lauren was too late to sign up. We have done several interviews on television, and in the newspapers. Many Americans wrote very negative responses to our interviews. Many were about how military spouses did not deserve this program. The comments that were left angered us, and this blog is our response to their comments, and what the interviews left out of the story.