Careers after the Military

Motherdear
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:10:52 +0000

Any soldier (both officers and enlisted) can get their graduate education either partially or fully funded. Sone will use VA benefits.The majority will use tuition assistance (TA). A select few will get to go to grad school through Advanced Civil Schooling (ACS). The officers who teach at the academies tend to have gone the ACS route.

There is a payback in terms of additional duty years for utilizing this benefit. An officer who uses TA owes one additional year of service after the date of completion of his last class. The ACS payback is 2-3 years of service for every year of full-time graduate school.

In this era, an officer should have earned a Master’s before the O-5 selection board to remain competitive.