Today's retirees are faced with many fears and challenges. Will I outlive my savings? Will my medical expenses be too high? Will I be able to afford my daily expenses? Will I be able to stay in my home if I become ill? As a retiree or pre-retiree, if you're asking yourself these same questions, fear not. The SHP Retirement Road Map(R) will provide you with the tools you need to guide yourself to and through retirement with ease. Your map to financial freedom starts here.Matthew Peck, CFP(R), CIMA(R), and his partners, Derek Gregoire and Keith Ellis, co-founders of SHP Financial, show you how to create a comprehensive retirement plan focusing on five critical areas of your financial life in retirement: income, investments, tax planning, health care and estate planning. Matthew, Derek and Keith are accomplished financial authors and radio show hosts, and they have been helping retirees and pre-retirees develop retirement plans for over 12 years. They have helped hundreds of clients plan for lasting income, protect their wealth and reduce unnecessary taxes.In this book, Matthew, Derek and Keith cover: -Planning for income in a volatile market-Optimizing Social Security benefits-How hidden fees in your investments could ruin your retirement-Ways to reduce future taxes on your investment accounts-How to help your family avoid the costly and time-consuming effects of probate

Today's retirees are faced with many fears and challenges. Will I outlive my savings? Will my medical expenses be too high? Will I be able to afford my daily expenses? Will I be able to stay in my home if I become ill? As a retiree or pre-retiree, if you're asking yourself these same questions, fear not. The SHP Retirement Road Map(r) will provide you with the tools you need to guide yourself to and through retirement with ease. Your map to financial freedom starts here.Certified Financial Planner(r) Matthew Peck and his partners, Derek Gregoire and Keith Ellis, co-founders of SHP Financial, show you how to create a comprehensive retirement plan focusing on five critical areas of your financial life in retirement: income, investments, tax planning, health care and estate planning. Matthew, Derek and Keith are accomplished financial authors and radio show hosts, and they have been helping retirees and pre-retirees develop retirement plans for over 12 years. They have helped hundreds of clients plan for lasting income, protect their wealth and reduce unnecessary taxes.In this book, Matthew, Derek and Keith cover:* Planning for income in a volatile market* Optimizing Social Security benefits* How hidden fees in your investments could ruin your retirement* Ways to reduce future taxes on your investment accounts* How to help your family avoid the costly and time-consuming effects of probate

Jerry Thigpen's study on the history of the Combat Talon is the first effort to tell the story of this wonderfully capable machine. This weapons system has performed virtually every imaginable tactical event in the spectrum of conflict and by any measure is the most versatile C-130 derivative ever produced. First modified and sent to Southeast Asia (SEA) in 1966 to replace theater unconventional warfare (UW) assets that were limited in both lift capability and speed the Talon I quickly adapted to theater UW tasking including infiltration and resupply and psychological warfare operations into North Vietnam. After spending four years in SEA and maturing into a highly respected UW weapons system the Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) chose the Combat Talon to lead the night low-level raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. Despite the outcome of the operation the Talon I cemented its reputation as the weapons system of choice for long-range clandestine operations. In the period following the Vietnam War United States Air Force (USAF) special operations gradually lost its political and financial support which was graphically demonstrated in the failed Desert One mission into Iran. Thanks to congressional supporters like Earl Hutto of Florida and Dan Daniel of Virginia funds for aircraft upgrades and military construction projects materialized to meet the ever-increasing threat to our nation. Under the leadership of such committed hard-driven officers as Brenci Uttaro Ferkes Meller and Thigpen the crew force became the most disciplined in our Air Force. It was capable of penetrating hostile airspace at night in a low-level mountainous environment covertly to execute any number of unconventional warfare missions.

"This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.

Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces The mighty Soviet Army is no more. The feckless Russian Army that stumbled into Chechnya is no more. Today's Russian Army is modern, better manned, better equipped and designed for maneuver combat under nuclear-threatened conditions. This is your source for the tactics, equipment, force structure and theoretical underpinnings of a major Eurasian power. Here's what the experts are saying: "A superb baseline study for understanding how and why the modern Russian Army functions as it does. Essential for specialist and generalist alike." -Colonel (Ret) David M. Glantz, foremost Western author on the Soviet Union in World War II and Editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. "Congratulations to Les Grau and Chuck Bartles on filling a gap which has yawned steadily wider since the end of the USSR. Their book addresses evolving Russian views on war, including the blurring of its nature and levels, and the consequent Russian approaches to the Ground Forces' force structuring, manning, equipping, and tactics. Confidence is conferred on the validity of their arguments and conclusions by copious footnoting, mostly from an impressive array of primary sources. It is this firm grounding in Russian military writings, coupled with the authors' understanding of war and the Russian way of thinking about it, that imparts such an authoritative tone to this impressive work." -Charles Dick, former Director of the Combat Studies Research Centre, Senior Fellow at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, author of the 1991 British Army Field Manual, Volume 2, A Treatise on Soviet Operational Art and author of From Victory to Stalemate The Western Front, Summer 1944 and From Defeat to Victory, The Eastern Front, Summer 1944. "Dr. Lester Grau's and Chuck Bartles' professional research on the Russian Armed Forces is widely read throughout the world and especially in Russia. Russia's Armed Forces have changed much since the large-scale reforms of 2008, which brought the Russian Army to the level of the world's other leading armies. The speed of reform combined with limited information about their core mechanisms represented a difficult challenge to the authors. They have done a great job and created a book which could be called an encyclopedia of the modern armed forces of Russia. They used their wisdom and talents to explore vital elements of the Russian military machine: the system of recruitment and training, structure of units of different levels, methods and tactics in defense and offence and even such little-known fields as the Arctic forces and the latest Russian combat robotics." -Dr. Vadim Kozyulin, Professor of Military Science and Project Director, Project on Asian Security, Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project PIR Center, Moscow. "Probably the best book on the Russian Armed Forces published in North America during the past ten years. A must read for all analysts and professionals following Russian affairs. A reliable account of the strong and weak aspects of the Russian Army. Provides the first look on what the Russian Ministry of Defense learned from best Western practices and then applied them on Russian soil." -Ruslan Pukhov, Director of the Moscow-based Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) and member of the Public Council of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense. Author of Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine, Russia's New Army, and The Tanks of August.