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Listing Military Deployment Experience


I'm new to these boards, but I'm about to get my MA, and I thought that resume advice would be a good place to start.  I'm a bit apprehensive about the job search because my military experience made my degrees take a lot longer than those of my peers; I'll be 30 years old applying for the same jobs that my 25-year-old fellow graduates will be.
Sorry for the digression.  In any case, I was in the Reserves (which means I usually served one weekend per month), and deployed overseas several times.  My most recent deployment was from 11/01-12/02, although I was actually in and employed by the military from 04/96-04/04.  I'm just not sure of the best way to express this on a resume.  Most of the responsibilities I had overseas I still had while on reserve status, although I worked up to them gradually.
I'm pasting my present resume here.  If anyone has any suggestions for this issue (or about anything at all, of course), I would appreciate your comments so much.  (The bit about the military is the last entry in my Experience section.)

Thank you in advance!
P.S. I notice that my formatting didn't paste very well--please disregard it.  Thanks!

Career Objective

A full-timeposition requiring my skills in technical writing, editing, graphics, or webdesign

Summary of Qualifications

·        Morethan six years experience in desktop publishing, document design, and imageediting

·        Twoyears experience editing and writing professionally

·        Detail-orientededitor and writer; work has been praised by professors as a “model of goodwriting and clear thinking”

·        Proficientin a Windows environment, yet capable in and originally trained on Macintosh

·        Softwareand coding experience:

o       Fluentin: Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, and Quark Xpress

o       Familiarwith: InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Pagemaker, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, andmany others

o       Canedit HTML code and some CSS

Experience

Webmaster and TechnicalWriter

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