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DOD Tuition Assistance. DOD Tuition Assistance is a US Department of Defense (DOD) program that fund higher education programming for US military servicemembers who wish to attend college before their service obligation ends. Currently, DOD TA funds servicemember's college tuition and fees, not to exceed $250 per semester credit hour or $166 ...
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) is an American tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to provide college scholarships and educational counseling to the surviving children of American Special Operations personnel killed in the line of duty. These services are provided throughout the United States, or ...
The Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) is an enterprise-level shore command of the United States Navy with more than 19,000 military and staff personnel at more than 1,640 subordinate activities, sites, districts, stations, and detachments throughout the world, and was established in 1971. NETC recruits, trains and delivers those who ...
Designated NHLD. January 29, 1964 [2] The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. [3] The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associated roles and missions, supports combat readiness, and ...
The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 is Title V of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110–252 (text) (PDF), H.R. 2642, an Act of Congress which became law on June 30, 2008. [1] The act amended Part III of Title 38, United States Code to include a new Chapter 33, which expands the educational benefits for ...
In 2021, Congress closed the loophole in the 90-10 rule that previously excluded DOD Tuition Assistance funds and GI Bill funds. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Veterans Education Project reported that American Public University System would be the largest for-profit college chain negatively affected by the modified rule.
In 1926, the U.S. Department of the Navy established the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. Its purpose was to produce a reserve of qualified officers who would be needed for a possible rapid expansion of the military in the case of an unforeseen emergency. A secondary objective was to acquaint college faculty and students with the Navy and ...
Beginning in June 2016, then Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Michael D. Stevens, oversaw a review of the Navy's existing enlisted rating system. [4] After Stevens's retirement, a group of senior enlisted leaders came to the conclusion that the Navy needed to replace its current enlisted system and announced the changes on 29 September 2016 with the release of NAVADMIN 218/16.