European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse June 2007 stars and stripes Page 7 Stephen and Tiffany Brock live and serve together at Forward operating base Iskan Nariyah in they Are spend ing their first year of marriage at Teri Weaver stars and stripes newlyweds navigate tour in Iraq by Teri Weaver stars and stripes Iraq Stephen and Tiffany Brock Are spending their honeymoon year of marriage on the a mys an Al expenses paid honeymoon to the Middle jokes a private first class with Battery 2nd 377th Parachute Field artillery at Forward operating base Iskan South of Stephen and Tiffany who is also a private first class were married in september before shipping out to because of available housing and sup port from their they Are living and serving together at they Are they for the Chance to share the same quarters and the Long months away from fort where they first met in june but they also know that the first year of marriage is traditionally the these Young newlyweds Stephen is 20 and 19 face unique Challenge their privacy consists of one their jobs take both of outside the perhaps most stressful is the constant knowledge of each others movements As they perform their trained in Light and Tif a Supply truck cant hide the danger of their jobs from each theres no Way to Tell each other those White lies that often spare worry for loved its not like a Normal said who transferred to company 725th support Bat at Fob Iskan to be with her when Hes on i sit Here she when the bases internet goes it usually Means someone in the unit was Hurt or i Al ways get worried that its they met at fort and their first Date last summer was a walk to a nearby they mar ried in that Park last in part so they could try to serve together during their 15month de during the first months in Iraq they were apart and communication was they would set up internet but Mission schedules would con the line in one internet tent where the time limit is 30 minutes per person would move slower than so they would just miss chatting with each by they were living Treyve pushed their two single Beds together to make a Kin size Complete with a Gauzy awning and throw a television and a Small Dresser make it for a Brief that War is far this is our Tiffany we come in and were not in its a they their his anther individual body Armor vests sit at the foot of the the couple says they know some of their fellow sol Diers Are naturally and they try not to Adver Tise their marriage or their living but Iskan is a relatively Small base and most people Al ready the arrangement int they either one could get transferred to another there could be a housing shortage at and they could be split up to make More room for other their safety int they if one of them is the other would go Home and have the option of never deploying again during his or her military but that not going to Hap Stephen we dont talk about email Teri Weaver at Only at the Auto Exchange special no payments Tor 90 Navy dropping 2year degree Rule for chief by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes the Navy has rescinded its requirement that chiefs hold an associates degree to be eligible to Advance to the move comes after a nine month review recommended Ming the requirement to ease the risk that Many chiefs would not com plete their associates degree in time for advancement in fiscal according to a re cent Nav admin Navy administrative the requirement disadvantaged a significant number of chief Petty officers who Are leading sailors at sea or in said master chief Petty officer of the Navy Joe Campa thirty five percent of chiefs Eli Gible for advancement in fiscal 2011 would have been at extreme risk of not meeting the requirement of holding an associates Campa told stars and this places them at an unacceptable disadvantage in competing for Campa the As did not place the right emphasis on the qualities we have traditionally recognized As those inherent to an effective chief Petty Campa gave figures showing that the following ratings had the highest percentage of chiefs who would have been at extreme risk to meet the associates de Gree requirement by fiscal 2011 69 percent special boat 68 percent machinery 66 percent engineering 64 per cent special warfare 63 percent it concerned me that our chiefs would be forced to choose be tween two important their sailors or their Campa i believe weve made those priorities com chiefs who Lead will become senior chiefs who measure their own Success by the Success of the men and women they Lead will be in a Navy news release issued chief of naval operations Michael Mullen said times have changed since the associates degree requirement was instituted two years we still View education As exceptionally valuable for our senior enlisted Mullen said in the news but we real ize that in Light of the challenges sailors face in today dynamic Security not everyone has the same Opportunity to Pur sue an associate for More go to Nav admin at email Jeff 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