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The Viking
I am pondering, in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. When you are in the service or rather after the service. Will the governments pay for your education (civilian), such as a bachelor degree, or something similar?
In the US we have what is called the "GI Bill". The latest one pays for college up to 25,000 dollars (USD) per semester on top of a housing allowance. But, you have to pay "into" the GI bill, it's only 100 a month for the first year you're in the service.
The old GI Bill was a set amount that would be paid directly to you as long as you were enrolled in school. Also, a lot of times recruiters will throw in "incentives" to prospective recruits by adding what's called the Army college fund...it just adds on to the regular GI Bill after one decides to use it. When I joined the GI bill was something like 28,000 dollars for college which would have been paind out over 36 months. I also recieved the 50,000 dollar Army college fund which just added 22,000 dollars to my GI Bill. When I got out the GI bill had gone up to 36,000 dollars, so they just added the 22,000 dollars to that making it 58,000. Bottom line, while I was in college I made about 1650.00 a month while I was in school. I could use it how I wanted as long as I took 12 or more credit hours and maintained at least 12 credit hours every semester.
History degrees ARE pretty useless....unless one is going to become a commissioned officer in a military service!
I have a BA in History....I should have got a BS in education for History instead...only about 2 more semesters of work and I could have actually taught...oh well...I guess I'll just have to get a masters now.
I also forgot that if you attend college while in the Army they pay for all schooling. Hard to do...but if you can pull off school and active duty it's a pretty good deal.
I love the history, it's not as useless as I made out in my line of work. I'll have to get a Masters degree at some point in the next few years if I plan on getting promoted past Captain.
Teaching is definitely something I will consider once my time in the Army is done, yet, that's a number of years away so I imagine I'll cross that road when I get to it. Eventually, I'd like to make my way up to a Doctorate and teach at the University level...We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Well, what I can add is that you can create much if you dont have a very good knowledge about the past.
When you study history, in fact, you study the future. And I'm not just talking about the events that might repeat themselves...
But the thing is that you cant teach people things you dont already know... You cant teach someone to be creative... You cant teach someone to make new stuff...
All you can do is teach him how people made new stuff out of nothing, or using the ideas of someone else... It's how the human brain works to make new stuff...
Anyways... I fully support education, it's the way to go. The military should invest more in education and I saw BEFORE the service, not after...
I dont know about you guys, but I'm tired to see 18 year old kids in battle... That is just depressing...
in the uk there is a very good organization called force select, this enables the transition from service life to employment & training in civilian life and the world of employment
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