Posted on Feb 24, 2018
SPC Cameron Hale
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I’m extremely interested in furthering my career in the military. I also plan to start my path towards Officer when I’m next Conus. Almost two years into my six year contract which makes me eligible for the Green to Gold AD option. Any advice concerning the program, specifically for the four year scholarship? I currently have no college credit and am hoping to get accepted, how likely is that?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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http://www.uopeople.edu

This is not a panacea, I'm unsure if the svcs, VA, or industry accepts the!, however, they've gotten a lot of recognition, they charge no tuition, though they charge admin and exam fees, prorated by per capita income for a given country, they have assoc/bach in comp sci (CS), bus admin, and health sci, as well as an MBA, they are NOT regionally accredited, however, they ARE accredited, I did see that, by DETC, formerly NHSC, I'll give you the DETC site also, remember, they are jot a panacea, however, they did get Vatican endorsement recently they Kay add more programs, they now take transfer credit, also, however, ASK before you'd do their programs, I'm NOT sure the svcs, VA, or industry accept them yet....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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http://www.excelsior.edu

This used to be part ofmNY State Educ Dept, the USNY (not SUNY) Regents External/College Degree (RED/RCD) program, itmorivatized a few years ago, theynhabe a tool free, they've done military for a long, long time, I got a 2nd bach in math using GRE subject tests through them back then, a friend took his bach math from them and went Navy OCS, they're real, I assure you...
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_College_of_the_Air_Force

Call them, I've always understood all service enlisted can use them for an associates, believe me, I'm sure they've got staff who've evals Army enlisted wanting to use them for their associates, even though they're a USAF school, honest. Go to personnel by you, get a transcript of every Army course you've done. In residence, correspondence, at your installation all of it, send it to CCAF, and let them eval you, OK? I think you might actually be pleasantly surprised, honest....
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OK, I follow, lemme help you with a few things, so far as I can, though if you could elaborate on some aspects, it'd help all of us try to help you, believe me, I've given this speech on here on numerous occasions, honest. First, give a more detailed biographical sketch, take the time on a word processor, type it out, paste it in Jere, with hobbies, interests, ambitions, motivations, high school GPA, if you recall it, also, if you can go into what I'm about to ask also, alp the tech schools you've gone through, as well as all the enlisted training, and also any AP stuff you did in high school. I'm gonna suggest some stuff if onoy to make you aware it exists, obviously, I dont kmow your age, I'm supposing late teens to early to mid 20s, also, you need to consider all svcs, not solely Army, for numerous reasons, I realize you'd said Green to Gold, I was to have gone Army under ROTC, I went USAF OTS instead, I knew many at the OTS who'd been enlisted in other svcs, one guy was even former Navy enlisted wearing dolphins on his USAF shirt, so I've known of many instances where cross service acceptance is doable, plus, it's not so much a matter of what you want, as who wants you. What major do you want? What field, ultimately? If Army, what branch or branches? Would you think about other svcs? If so, which others might you tend to favor? That sort of thing, let !e send this, then I'll send more, I think you'll perceive why, I think you'll find it useful, honest, OK?
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SPC Margaret Higgins
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SPC Cameron Hale: Your goal is very admirable. My guess is that you will need college credits to get accepted into the four year scholarship program.
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SPC Margaret Higgins
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SPC Cameron Hale - One really needs at least a BA in this society, in this day and age: to achieve ones highest goals.
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SPC Cameron Hale
SPC Cameron Hale
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Roger that ma’am, thank you.
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SPC Margaret Higgins
SPC Margaret Higgins
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SPC Cameron Hale - It's a decided honor, Private First Class Hale.
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There are a lot of military programs for school. Depending on your MOS, you can get credit for job training and experience.
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I commission this May from Green to Gold ADO. I did most of my college through UMUC (some deployed, some in Germany, some CONUS - so don't let where you are limit your pursuit) and completed my first degree early. I actually got interested in the idea while I was at Fort Bliss when a new LT came off Green to Gold 4 year scholarship. He said the biggest struggle for him was that his wife had to get a full time job and support the family because he was in school full time for four years. So, since I had two degrees almost completed, I decided to opt for the Active Duty Option so that I continued to get paid by the Army and I got a slight break from service to re-energize.

If I were you, I would enroll and get some core credits knocked out. Things that you know you will have to take - like core sciences, math, and English. The ADO is incredible, I get paid my NCO pay, the Army PCS'd me to my college of choice, I get my BAH for my family, and I get all the same benefits as though I were still in the Army. The only kicker is I have to pay for my own classes - which my Post 9/11 GI Bill takes care of. The program asks me to do a little more than typical cadets because I am still an NCO in the Army, so I do recruiting over breaks. Outside of that, my duty day is PT three days a week (I PT outside of that - but Cadet TRADOC states they can only require three days of PT a week for the amount of credit hours offered for the Military Science course), I go in on Monday from 1500-1800 and Thursday we have Labs from 1400-1700. I have my classes currently set up to where I don't do anything on Friday and ROTC is my only Monday class so I basically get a three day every week with Monday being a half day. There is another G2G Cadet here who is a two year scholarship and he constantly states that he wished he would have gone ADO route because he has to have a job outside of ROTC to support his family.

Good luck. If you want to do it, it is a great program. But the packet process is very stressful, talking with one of the admins from Fort Knox, they said that the one thing that keeps most people from getting it is that they get discouraged and do not complete the packet because it is a pretty thorough packet.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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https://www.thebalance.com/becoming-an-army-helicopter-pilot-3345045

If youre at all inclined this way, Army WOCS for helicopters only needs high school, no college, the son of the high school best friend is f my MIMD their in paw did it as enlisted, no bachelors, or associates, though associates hemmightve had, immunsure, he did yrs in Army helicopters, got his bachelors in aeronautics through Embryo Riddle Univ, then interservice physician USCG, as either direct commission, or went went to an OIS, immfairly suremhemwas waivedmin full OCS, I think....
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https://www.charteroak.edu/

Look at this also....
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