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JROTC Leaders Shocked to Learn Cruz Was Cadet

PARKLAND, Fla. — The sound of gunfire still ringing in his ears after his mad half-mile sprint, Jack Ciaramello was standing with friends in a grocery store parking lot when a sheriff’s deputy approached. He asked the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High senior if he knew a former student named Nikolas Cruz. Of course he did: […]

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MOOCS Attract More Paying Customers

If anybody stays on top of the massive open online course segment, it’s Class Central, a search engine that taps into every MOOC platform. Recently, it issued its annual review of MOOC stats and trends, and the information exposes how this form of online learning is evolving from a technology expected to disrupt higher education […]

Program Matches ROTC Students, Veterans for Mentoring

TMichael Farnum, director of military outreach at Pacific Lutheran University, is playing matchmaker. “It’s sort of like a dating site,” Farnum said. But Farnum is not talking about the next OKCupid or Match.com. Instead, he’s connecting students through SaLUTE, a new two-way mentorship program he launched that pairs ROTC cadets with military veterans. “I collect […]

Test Center Engineers Like Fellowship Experience

The Redstone Test Center has hosted the current fellows in the Defense Acquisition University Senior Service College Fellowship program. Among this session’s fellows are two RTC teammates, both chief engineers at the center in their respective directorates. The center had the chance to “debrief” the two fellows on their experience of going through this prestigious […]

ABA Proposes Looser Rule on Online Credits

The American Bar Association has proposed loosening its rules on online education. In an announcement posted Monday, they stated, “The Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the American Bar Association’s accreditor of law schools, is proposing a new rule for distance education that would nearly double the number of […]

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Bill Aims to Smooth Transition to Civilian Life

U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) has put forth a bipartisan measure to better help separating active-duty military personnel get back into the swing of civilian life and work. Rep. Curbelo on Feb. 6 introduced the Better Access to Technical Training, Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Servicemembers Act, or the BATTLE for Servicemembers Act, H.R. 4954, along […]

Transition Director Meets with Stakeholders in Hawaii

Soldiers attending an employment readiness workshop for retirees at the Soldier for Life-Transition Assistance Program Center, here, got an unexpected opportunity to exchange ideas with an influential member of the program on Feb 1. Retired Col. Walter M. Herd, Army Transition Division director at the Human Resources Command Center of Excellence, oversees SFL-TAP and led […]

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Air Force Rolls Out Physical Training Standards for Some Fields

Air liaison officers and tactical air control party operators will soon see new career field-specific physical testing as the Air Force expands physical training beyond the standard PT test, officials announced Wednesday. It marks the first time specific career fields will have “occupationally specific and operationally relevant standards, as well as a second fitness assessment,” […]

Spouses Find Job Barriers as They Trail Service Members

Lakesha Cole has been through six deployments and five base transfers as a spouse of a Marine. Each move has represented an exhausting, if familiar routine: There’s the task of packing and unpacking an entire home. Of enrolling three children under the age of 13 in new schools, and tracking down available child care. Of […]

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Uniformed Service University Offers Opportunities

Enlisted service members have often been referred to as the backbone of the military for their support, leadership, willingness to get the job done, and thirst for knowledge. Retaining dedicated, talented troops is important to ensuring that their experience is passed on to the next generation of noncommissioned officers and to preparing them for careers […]

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Nursing Program That Caters to Military Marks 50th Year

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) — Over the course of five decades, the Old Dominion University School of Nursing has produced more than 6,000 graduates. Many of the students, up to 40 percent, have some sort of military connection. Either they’re in the military themselves, they’re a military spouse, or they are a vet. Navy wife Jordan […]

$14 M Scholarship for Military Offspring Ends Soon

A college scholarship program that will award a combined $1.4 million to hundreds of military children will stop taking applications Feb. 16 ― one of several such programs with approaching deadlines. Completed applications for the Scholarships for Military Children Program, which is conducted each year in partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency, must reach the […]

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