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Soldiers should check tuition assistance status for their schools
Effective March 1, Soldiers will no longer receive tuition assistance if their college or university has not signed the Defense Department’s “Voluntary Education Partnership” Memorandum of Understanding. Soldiers who already received tuition assistance, or TA, funding for courses can complete those courses even if they extend beyond March 1. They just can’t sign up for [...]
GI Bill education transfer incurs 4 years for all Airmen
When initially implemented, the Post-9/11 GI Bill education transfer program was phased in to enable Airmen nearing retirement to accept a 1-, 2-, or 3-year active-duty service commitment. That phase-in period expired July 31, 2012 and all active-duty Airmen now incur a 4-year ADSC, said Bruce Houseman, Air Force Personnel Center education services and benefits [...]
NATO to Strengthen Ability to Act with Global Partners
NATO seeks to assume a more global perspective, play its part globally and strengthen its ability to act with partners around the globe, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in London yesterday. In a speech at Chatham House, Rasmussen said forging closer links with partners in Asia, Africa and elsewhere is crucial to guaranteeing future [...]
Unique Program to Educate Next Generation of US Cybersecurity Leaders
University of Maryland and Northrop Grumman create nation’s first cybersecurity honors program for undergraduates The University of Maryland and the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) will launch a landmark honors program designed to educate a new generation of advanced cybersecurity professionals. The unique program, Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES), will immerse undergraduate students in all [...]
Army Engineer School launches ENFORCE 2012
The Army Engineer School Wednesday launched ENFORCE, its annual regimental conference, bringing together more than 300 military engineers to focus on future operations, capabilities, threats and how the regiment will engineer in future conflicts into 2020. Aside from common themes that are looked at yearly, such as how engineers are trained at the institutional level, [...]
GI Bill changes include actual cost for in-state tuition
The Department of Veterans Affairs is reaching out to inform veterans of recent changes made by Congress to the Post 9/11 GI Bill that take effect in 2011. “The Post 9/11 GI Bill is incredibly important because it reduces the financial burdens of higher education so that veterans have an opportunity to achieve their education [...]
Makin Island Raid By The Marine Raiders During WWII
Makin Island Raid By The Marine Raiders During WWII
Army seeks robotic breakthroughs with education
On the battlefield, robots perform duties to help keep Soldiers out of harm’s way. Robots are taken to extreme environments and put through the paces navigating rubble-strewn roads and removing identified threats. On a hot June day in Michigan, several robots simply tried to stay between two white lines on a grass field featuring uneven [...]


