More Under The Bus News: Tuition assistance slashed by 75 percent for (active service) Marines

[unhappycamper]

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unhappycamper summary of this article: :(






Tuition assistance slashed by 75 percent for Marines
By Travis J. Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: October 18, 2011

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marine Corps announced Tuesday it has slashed tuition assistance by 75 percent for servicemembers who take classes on their off-duty time.

[MADem]

1. More "fair use" snips (Stars and Stripes is a different outfit entirely from the MILITARY TIMES

franchise, FWIW--they do have a limited interaction/convergence with the military, and some of their "reporters" are actually military personnel in mufti--it's a bit noxious, that):

The Marine Corps said the new rate is equal to the average class load taken on by Marines who use the tuition assistance program and is a more focused use of the service’s tuition funds.

Cuts in military tuition assistance programs have been expected this year as Washington wrestles with reducing costs, though the Marines are the first to enact any changes, said Stephanie Styll, a spokeswoman for University of Maryland University College Asia at Yokota Air Base in mainland Japan.

“We’ve been anticipating the changes to tuition assistance for all the branches of service,” Styll said. “We’ve really been beefing up our training on federal financial aid as well as veterans’ benefits.”
...The new tuition rules will also require any Marine taking tuition assistance to be on their first permanent duty station for at least one year, which is already a rule enforced by the Navy.

There will be a drawdown coming!

[truedelphi]

2. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! I have a great idea abt Student Loans for our military -

No new christmas/end of year bonuses ever for the banks until the GI Bill is awarded to 95% of those who have fought a tour of duty.

The banks make out big time for every war and conflict that our nation signs up for. If that wasn't the case, the nation would have been at "peace" rather than "at war" for most of the past sixty years.