VA Advice on Choosing the Right School Keith Wilson, Director of VA Education Service (GI Bill) suggests specific questions a veteran student should ask when...
GI Bill Transferability for Retirees Proposed Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has introduced H.R. 2002. A bill that would expand Post-9/11 GI Bill Transferability to...
Military Tuition Assistance Cuts Looming Earlier this year I reported that there were rumblings about the budget cuts effect on military tuition assistance. At that...
VA Ready to Move on GI Bill Changes The following blurb was taken from the VA Facebook page - just a quick update on their progress toward fully implementing GI...
VA Softens Stance on Last Minute GI Bill Reforms VA has softened their stance and are now saying that while they still see payment challenges ahead if the Restoring GI Bill...
DoD Takes Steps to Protect Military Students The Defense Department has finally released the highly anticipated ‘Memorandum of Understanding.’ Any schools wishing to...
Senate Plan Would Cut $80B in Benefits The Senate deficit-cutting plan proposed by the so-called “Gang of Six” requires a reduction in retiree COLA and demands that...
Senate Passes GI Bill Fairness Act Rep. Jeff Miller's (R-FL) Restoring GI Bill Fairness Act of 2011 has been approved by the Senate just as the next wave of GI...
Bulk of GI Bill Changes Now in Effect The bulk of the improvements to the Post-9/11 GI Bill (GI Bill 2.0) have gone into effect. The following is a summary of all...
Why All the Fuss Over For-Profit Schools? To the casual observer the Senate’s relentless scrutiny of the education business may seem like an anti-for-profit crusade...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
