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March 5, 2013 - Some Marines are scrambling to find ways to pay for classes after a surprise announcement that the Marine Corps has stopped new enrollments in its tuition assistance program.
The program was available for active-duty Marines attending high school completion courses, vocational courses or classes toward an associate, bachelor, master or doctorate degree after hours. It provided up to $4,500 per fiscal year, or $250 per semester hour or credit hour, according to a Marine Corps website.
An administrative message published Saturday for all Navy and Marine Corps personnel from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus noted that one of the impacts of the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration would be to “cease new USMC enrollments in voluntary education tuition assistance.” read more>>>
Mar 8, 2013 - The Army plans to suspend tuition assistance as it copes with a tightening budget.The suspension will be effective at 5 p.m. EST today, March 8, according to an Army source.
The suspension will apply to all components, the source said. Soldiers will no longer be allowed to submit new requests for tuition assistance through the GoArmyEd portal. read more>>>
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2013 – Budget problems have forced the Army and Marine Corps to cancel the tuition assistance program, service officials said today.Navy and Air Force officials said they are studying the way forward with the program and expect decisions next week.
Thousands of service members take advantage of the tuition assistance program, which allows them to take college courses that prepare them for their jobs in the military or as they transition to the civilian workforce. read more>>>
March 6, 2013 - Students attending Department of Defense Dependents Schools should learn the impact of government funding cuts within a few days, officials said Thursday.
In a letter to parents, DOD Education Activity Japan District superintendent Lois Rapp said an announcement of “school-level” plans to deal with sequestration — $50 billion in defense spending cuts — will come next week.
The letter does not lay out any of the options that officials are considering but cites a DODEA website that suggests the impact of the cuts will be “significant.” read more>>>
Mar 5, 2013 - Service members, families and retirees who receive care at military hospitals and clinics are likely to feel the sting of sequestration if civilian workers — roughly 41 percent of the nearly 140,000 Military Health System workforce — are furloughed, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.Addressing the impact of the budget cuts for the first time, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson said in a statement posted on the MHS website that the cuts will hamper research, delay maintenance and slow equipment purchases.
He added that if the department must furlough its civilian force, delivery of health care at military treatment facilities likely would be affected. read more>>>
Instead of marking targeted area's to cut as to the Military Defense Budget and while still in the main missions war theater occupation, missions abandoned years back, the military will cut where force ready funding, Afghanistan could ramp up at anytime, is not affected as the military winds down operations in theater. Along with force ready funding for the many threats being voiced or otherwise in case those become more then threats. Because of the total obstruction in congress and not wanting to add revenues to pay for these wars especially as well as the long term results of, the peoples responsibility the Veterans Administration.
And that's not all, more to come in other area's as to military operations in serving to defend, like this:
Mar. 6, 2013 - Add this to the list of potential consequences of sequestration, the across-the-board spending cuts totaling $85 billion this year that went into effect on Friday: more cocaine on our streets.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, the Navy is pulling back from an operation that kept 160 tons of cocaine and 25,000 pounds of marijuana out of the United States last year. The program, called "Operation Martillo," was a joint effort between the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Agency, and governmental agencies in Europe and Latin America. But now, due to sequestration, the Navy will not deploy two of its ships slated to replace two homebound Navy vessels that were participating in the program. Here's more from the Virginian-Pilot: read more>>>
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