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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 [...]
US school massacre fuels social media debate on guns
The Newtown school massacre has fueled an unprecedented wave of social media discussion on US gun control, with the overwhelming majority favoring new limits on firearms, a study showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that on blogs and Twitter, gun policy accounted for almost 30 percent of the social [...]
Air assault school helps shape Army’s future
Maj. Gen. James McConville, the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, at Fort Campbell, Ky., issued an order in July to increase the number of Air Assault-qualified Soldiers within the next three years. “Seventy percent of the Division will be Air Assault qualified,” said Capt. James B. Prisock, the commander of the Sabalauski Air [...]
Bell Helicopter To Open First Flight Training School In China
Bell Helicopter announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to open the first Bell Helicopter authorized flight training school in China. Bell Helicopter and Guanchen Aviation signed the MOU during the opening ceremony of the 4th Annual Anyang International Aviation Sports Festival in Anyang, China. “Bell Helicopter is committed to growing our [...]
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, [...]
Sniper classmates break culture barriers
No matter which country’s uniform Soldiers wear, the challenges they face and the triumphs they enjoy are often the same. Long hours spent in formation. Weeks spent in training, listening intently to learn about the dangers they’ll face in war. The nerves of standing at attention while a First Sergeant looks them over. The pride [...]
Dogs With Cameras Search for Bombs
The dog school of the Royal Netherlands Air Force has acquired a new technique for detecting explosives. With a camera attached to its head, a search dog can search for explosives by itself. The dog handler watches the dog’s progress from a distance, on a portable video screen. The training coordinator is enthusiastic about the [...]
DOD sets rules for schools receiving tuition assistance
All schools participating in Title 10 tuition assistance will need to have a signed memorandum of understanding with the Defense Department under a new policy that will take effect Jan. 1, officials said. Carolyn Baker, the chief of voluntary education for DOD’s military community family and policy office, explained what the agreement covers. “The MOU [...]
Dutch Firm Plans ‘Top Gun’ School in Iceland
Dutchman Melville ten Cate and his company ECA Program want to convert a former US air force base in Iceland to a training ground where Western air forces can simulate dogfights with Russian jets. ECA Program believes it has discovered a gap in the market because air forces would be able to go up against [...]
