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According to the new Army TA policy, a freshly minted soldier out of AIT cannot access TA for college until the SM is at least one year in service. Again, a beneficiary of a baccalaureate cannot access it for a graduate school until the SM is 10 years in the Army. From policy standpoint, I do not know much about how this policy was hatched and its intended purpose but I want to know how it affects or improves retention? I mean the retention of college graduated soldiers!
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MSG (P), I think the impression that some of us got was that the 10 year mark for graduate school in particular was to help 'curb' the rampant...'get-in-get educated-get-out' that the Army was suffering. This was so because some argued that the Army 'lose' when folks get into the service and rapidly get their education and leave. That is why I am wondering how the new system...especially the 10 year mark will help 'curb' that because one can still get out and use the GI after TA has paid for the baccalaureate.I am still trying to wrap my mind around it. Of course unless it is entirely a matter of fiscal and budgetary constraints. Personally I believe soldiers educating themselves or making the effort to get some education should not be seen as 'fleecing' or 'cheating' the system because it is not fair to ambitious soldiers. Unless of course it is budgetary concerns. I can understand that part.
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