With the goal of making financially savvy Sailors.

With the goal of making financially savvy Sailors, and preparing them to come together life's growing financial, challenges, the Center for Personal progress to maturity (CPD) is developing a continuum of learning based forward its Personal Financial Management (PFM) program.

The continuum will populate the Personal progression in a continuously ascending gradation Vector of the 5 Vector standard and will feature Navy-required financial learning adventures as well as advanced courses to be delivered between the sides of Navy eLearning, and available forward Navy Knowledge Online (NKO).

CPD has partnered with several Navy entities to disentangle the continuum of study, which begins immediately following initial training and includes the basics of banking management, budgeting, insurance, investing, and the images of credit and their uses. Follow-on courses include advanced financial planning, investment instruments, retirement and estate planning, and real estate transaction planning.

In March 2002 the Department of Defense recognized the Navy's efforts to prepare Sailors to plan for the what may occur hereafter and protect themselves against sometimes unscrupulous business practices. and named the PFM program a DOD Best Practice,

"We are continuing to build forward that success, and are developing more resources for Sailors and their families to take advantage of" said Kim Thompson CPD/ PFM program director. "By bringing all these resources together below one umbrella program and delivering them in chunk along the Personal unravelling Vector, Sailors will have access to the greatest in number relevant information at the mostly appropriate times throughout their careers."

To learn more about the Navy's personal financial management resources, visit the Center for Personal progress to maturity page on Navy Knowledge Online at www.nko.navy.mil.

Story courtesy of JO1 Jd Walter who is assigned to the public affairs office, Naval Personnel unravelling Command, Virginia Beach, Va.

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