{"id":27069,"date":"2011-10-18T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27069"},"modified":"2011-10-18T06:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:39:33","slug":"marines-slash-tuition-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27069","title":{"rendered":"Marines slash tuition assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps has slashed tution assistance for active duty Marines by 75% according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/tuition-assistance-slashed-by-75-percent-for-marines-1.158049\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The change went into effect immediately and reduces the maximum education assistance available from the Department of Defense standard of $3,500 per year to just $875 per year for Marines \u2014 about enough to cover two university courses, according to a service-wide bulletin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the message is; if you want a college education, go use your rich new GI Bill benefits and GTFO out of the Corps. Taking college courses while on active duty improved the force and helped retention, cutting those benefits encourages exit from the service.<\/p>\n<p>But you get the force you want to pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps has slashed tution assistance for active duty Marines by 75% according to Stars &hellip; <a title=\"Marines slash tuition assistance\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27069\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines slash tuition assistance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}