Military Loans - From Navy Daughter, to Navy Wife, to Nation...

Military Loans -
From Navy Daughter, to Navy Wife, to Nation...

January 10 2004--Sarah Smiley has made a career of the military without ever putting on a uniform.As the daughter of a Navy pilot and the wife of a Navy flight instructor, Sarah Smiley has been a military dependent for 27 years.Now she has launched her own military career writing Shore Duty, a syndicated newspaper column with a lighthearted spin on life in the military, from a wifes point-of-view.Shore Duty began in February 2003 as a small local column in JaxAirNews, the base paper of NAS Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fl.There, under the title On the Homefront, in one year Smileys column helped increase the newspapers female readership by an estimated 30 percent.When Smileys husband was transferred to Pensacola in August 2003, her column debuted in Pensacola News Journal under the new title Shore Duty.The first week Shore Duty appeared in Pensacola News Journal, it received more fan mail in one day than any other new column at the paper ever has.Less than four months later, Shore Duty was syndicated, had