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General Power of Attorney

GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

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PREAMBLE: This document is a MILITARY POWER OFATTORNEY prepared pursuant to Title 10 United StatesCode, Section

1044(b), and executed by a personauthorized to receive legal assistance from the military.Federal law exempts thispower of

attorney from any requirement ofform, substance, formality,or recordingthat is prescribed for powers of attorney by the laws of a

state, the District of Columbia, or a territory, commonwealth, or possession of the United States. Federal law specifies that this

power of attorney shall begiven the same legal effect as a power of attorney prepared and executed in accordance with the laws of

the jurisdiction in which it is presented.

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESEPRESENTS: That I, _____________________________________________, currently residing

at _____________________________________________________________________________________, do hereby appoint

_____________________________________________my trueand lawful attorney-in-fact to manage and conduct allmy affairs

and act in all matters in my name and on my behalf. Such acts shall includethe authority:

1.To lease, sell, use, establish title to, register, insure, transfer, mortgage, maintain, manage, pledge, exchange, or otherwise

dispose of or encumber any and all of my property, real, personal, or mixed, including motor vehicles of any kind, and to execute and

deliver good and sufficient deeds or other instruments for the lease, conveyance, mortgage, maintenance, or transfer of the same.

2.To buy, receive, lease, accept, or otherwise acquire in my name and formy account, property, real, personal, or mixed

upon such terms, considerations, and conditions as my attorney-in-fact shall deem appropriate.

3.To transact all of my business on my behalf, including entering into contracts and themaking of such investments as my

attorney-in-fact shall deem sound.

4.To institute and prosecute, or to appear and defend, or to settle, any claims or litigation involving my interests or me. This

authority shall include, but notbe limited to,theauthority to present a claim against the UnitedStates fordamage toor loss of

personal property.

5.To prepare, execute, sign, and file all tax returns and to receive and negotiate all tax refund checks.

6.To execute all documents neededfor the travel of my family members and transportation or storage of my property, as

authorized by law and military regulations; to sign for and cleargovernment or other quarters in thebest interests of my family

members and in accordance with law and military regulations.

7.To demand, act to recover, and receiveall sums of money which are now or will become owing or belonging to me, and to

institute accounts on my behalf,and to deposit, draw upon, or expend such funds of mine asare necessary in furtherance of the

powers granted herein. This authority shall include, but not be limited to, the authorityto receive, endorse, cash, or deposit

negotiable instruments made payable to me and drawn upon the Treasurer, or other fiscal officer or depository, of the United States.

8.Generally, to do, execute, and perform any other act, deed, matter, or thing, that in the opinion of myattorney-in-fact ought

to be done, executed, or performed, in conjunction with this power of attorney.

NOTWITHSTANDING any language tothe contrary in thisinstrument, my attorney-in-factis specifically NOTgranted the

following powers:

a.To cancel or change the beneficiary of any policy of life insurance owned by me.

b.To exercise any rights orpowerswith respect toany person, matter,transaction, orproperty in myname or in

my custody as a trustee, custodian, personal representative, or other fiduciary capacity for someone else.

I hereby give and grant unto my attorney-in-fact full powerand authority to do and performeach and every act and matter

concerning my estate, property, and affairs as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I could do legally if I were present.

I hereby authorize my attorney-in-fact to indemnify and hold harmless any third party who accepts and acts under orin

accordance with this power of attorney.

I intend for this power of attorney to bea DURABLE power of attorney. This power of attorney will continue to beeffective

if I become disabled, incapacitated, or incompetent. All actsdoneby my attorney-in-fact hereundershall have the same effect and

inure to the benefit of and bind myself and my heirs as if I were competent, and not disabled, incapacitated, or incompetent.

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I shall be considered disabled orincapacitated for purposes ofthis power of attorney if a physician, based on that

physician's examination, certifies in writing at a date subsequent to the date on which this power of attorney is executed, that I am

disabled from or incapable of exercising control over my person, property, personal affairs, orfinancial affairs. I authorizethe

physician who so certifies to disclose my physical or mental condition to another personfor purposes of this power of attorney. A

third party who accepts this power of attorney, endorsedby proper physician certification of my disability or incapacity, is held

harmless and fully protected from any action taken under this power of attorney.

I hereby ratify all that my attorney-in-fact lawfully shall do or cause to be done by this document.

This powerof attorney shall become effective when I sign and execute it below. Unless soonerrevoked orterminated by

me, this power of attorney shall become NULL and VOID on ____________________________________, 20____ (expiration date).

Notwithstanding my inclusion of a specific expirationdate herein, if on the above-specified expiration date, or during the

sixty (60) day period preceding that specified expiration date, I should be or have been determined by the United States Government

to be in a military status of "missing," "missing in action," or "prisoner of war," or if I shouldbe or have beenproperly certified, in

writing, by a physician to be disabled from or incapable of exercising control over my person, property, personal affairs, or financial

affairs, then this power of attorney shall remain valid and in full effect until sixty (60)days after I have returned to United States

military control following termination of such status or sixty (60) days after I have recovered from such disability unless sooner

revoked or terminated by me.

All business transactedhereunderforme orformy account shall be transacted in my name, and all endorsements and

instruments executedby my attorney-in-fact for the purposeof carrying out theforegoing powers shall contain my name,followed by

that of my attorney-in-fact and the designation “attorney-in-fact.”

IN WITNESSWHEREOF, I sign, seal, declare, publish, make, and constitute this document as and formy power of

attorney at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California on ___________________________________, 20_____ (today’s date)

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Signature of Grantor

With the United States Armed Forces

At Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

On this the_______ day of ______________________________, 20______, before the undersigned officer, personally

appeared_____________________________________________, satisfactorily proven to be (a)serving in or retired from the

Armed Forces of the United States, or (b) a lawful dependent of a person serving in orretired from the Armed Forces of the United

States, or (c) a person serving with, employed by, or accompanying the Armed Forces of the United States outside the United States

and outside theCanalZone, Puerto Rico, Guam, andthe VirginIslands,and tobetheperson whose name is subscribedtothe

within instrument and acknowledged that he or she executed thesame. And the undersigned does further certify that heorshe is at

the date of this certificate anofficer of the Armed Forces ofthe United Stateshaving the general powers of anotary publicunder the

provisions of Section 936 or 1044(a) of Title 10 of the United States Code (Public Law 90-632 and 101-510).

AUTHORIZED TO ACT AS A NOTARY_______________________________

PUBLIC UNDER THE PROVISIONS OFSignature of Notary

SECTION 1044a OF TITLE 10 OF THE

UNITED STATES CODE AND SECTIONName of Officer and Position:

1183.5 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVILGrade and Branch of Service:

CODE. NO SEAL REQUIRED BY LAW.Command or Organization:

ACKNOWLEGEMENT