I totally agree. My brother-in-law is a Captain (P) in the Army. He was offered the following: FREE attendance at university of choice to obtain his masters AND 35K to stay in for a few years longer. He is attending Duke University right now.
The best we (enlisted) can get is a reenlistment bonus and the GI bill, and the amount of the bonus depends on whether or not one is being offered in your particular specialty, how many years you reenlist for, and how desperate they are to keep people in that particular specialty. They do have a program where you can attend a university of choice for one year as a full time student, but nothing like officers get. The Army is constantly droning on how education is key, and if you are enlisted and plan to get promoted to the senior ranks, you better have some college or you are going to get passed over for promotion. But if you don't have any college at all, it will take over two years just to get an Associates degree since you can't attend full time. I would like to see the Army do something for enlisted like they do for officers. I would jump at the chance to attend school for a couple of years to fast track my degree. If you have no school, then you can attend a local CC to obtain your Associates, and if you have your Associates, then another year or so at a 4 year university to obtain your undergrad in exchange for reenlisting for a few more years. Not all enlisted men and women have any college at all, and this would help with retention and promotion. Now with that being said, I still love the Army and in 9 days I swear in and head to Colorado, but not all men and women like the Army like I do, and will probably get out when their time is up unless they can figure out how to make it more appealing to them. Bruce Loathe wrote: > I'd love to see the G.I. bill scaled for time in service. Lets do what > the officers do, for every two years in service you get one year of college. > > My complaint is that even under the new plans most soldiers simply won't > be able to afford college without loans or a full time job, and the > military knows it, and plans on only a small percentage of veterans ever > being able to use the benefits. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260800 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
