Veterans should be awarded college credit for military training, exp. and coursework, officials say

Most colleges will already do this. Some will offer more credits than others. All you have to do is get a copy of your AARTS, now JST, and send it to the college you're applying to. They will then take all of your milliary training and job experience and convert it into credits. Usually your Army Education Office can send it for you and find which schools offer the most credits. I was offered 40 credits towards a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison here in NJ.
 
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Soldier4Real said:
Most colleges will already do this. Some will offer more credits than others. All you have to do is get a copy of your AARTS, now JST, and send it to the college your applying to. They will then take all of your milliary training and job experience and convert it into credits. Usually your Army Education Office can send it for you and find which schools offer the most credits. I was offered 40 credits towards a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison here in NJ.
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Agree with this I am in the final day of my BA in Information technology, and was able to leapfrog ahead with my military experience. The main issue is that there is no set process or acceptance criteria, so one college may give more credits than another college. Additional to this most colleges I think will not simply give you say all the college credits and make it so all you need is say a semester to graduate. They want something like 2 years commitment (payment).
 
I see a lot of abuse in the future, the truth is most military training is not really comparable to most college courses. Vocational there is much more crossover but honestly it's still a couple steps below. There is real value in the service though that colleges should accredit, and it's mostly intangibles that colleges can't and don't improve in people.
 
But my weapon training should come in real use as a humanities course no? :)
 
Medical/Communication/Languistics/Aviation are going to be the major military cert:credits......Though pldc/bnoc/anoc ought to count for management credits, though I can see them not being worth a fuck!
 
I was fortunate that I was in Communications and Electronics my entire military career. Transferring my military training and work experience is pretty cut and dry.
 
Yea I started off as a 25c, wish I could have been a 25b, that would have had some weight to any college(accepting of course) for IT shits...fuck being colour blind!
 
I was a 94E, Radio and COMSEC Repairer, for the first 13 years then a 25B for the last seven. I never was a big hooah, stay in the field, kind of Soldier.
 
Soldier4Real said:
I was a 94E, Radio and COMSEC Repairer, for the first 13 years then a 25B for the last seven. I never was a big hooah, stay in the field, kind of Soldier.
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nice....Love the fucking field...it is fucking miserable, shitty, but makes for good times. And I love saying what everyone is thinking!
 
I remember when i got out of the marine corps i thought my mos 2148 i think (tank mechanic) was going to take me places. NOT all i got was gym class credits for my boot camp experience. All my technical training amounted to 0 credits. Couldnt even get a job as a entry level mechanic at any kind of heavy equipment shop.
 
Brownstreaks said:
I remember when i got out of the marine corps i thought my mos 2148 i think (tank mechanic) was going to take me places. NOT all i got was gym class credits for my boot camp experience. All my technical training amounted to 0 credits. Couldnt even get a job as a entry level mechanic at any kind of heavy equipment shop.
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ANd that is fucking shit! Like I said, there really are only a couple military jobs that civi side would EVEN consider eligible as experience....even the leadership courses wouldnt count for squat as far as management goes, unless the job/owner/boss was prior service would those account for anything.
 
Most of the skills that are transferable from the military sector to the private sector are trades, engineers(carpenters), motor T mechanics(diesel mechanics), MP/PMO (law enforcement) etc. Officers already have their bachelors.
 
For my current job I work in the Information Security section. They said that they knew with my military background I would take security very seriously and that's the main reason they hired me over other candidates.
 
I am an Engineer (nailbender/carpenter/mason..well concrete man).....but the skillset and training I have received would be schite in a school. My managerial experience though, through civilian jobs, has benefit me via military experience with the leader ship courses....and still isnt worth squat, unless someone in the buisness I am looking to work for is prior service....And I fucking hate it.....
 
Soldier4Real said:
For my current job I work in the Information Security section. They said that they knew with my military background I would take security very seriously and that's the main reason they hired me over other candidates.
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Not going to drop names or ranks, but while I was over seas, 3 soldiers had their spr/npr privalages revoked for security/cross domain nonsesne, how the fuck are the "admin section" of a unit supposed to do their job over seas without that access???? security lolwhat.....it's discipline and situation awareness that determines the ethics of any person...civi or military
 
I was able to bypass 4-5 classes in college because the training I had through Corrections and Police, but it was specific to my degree in criminal justice. Probably about 1/3 of the training I received wasn't able to cross over (defensive tactics, emergency driving, weapons training, etc) but a lot of the training I received was a cross between criminology/ psychology/ and law so it was applicable. But I was not allowed to bypass any classes such as English, Algebra, etc. So I agree depending on the degree and training, it should happen.
 
ShiningN said:
I was able to bypass 4-5 classes in college because the training I had through Corrections and Police, but it was specific to my degree in criminal justice. Probably about 1/3 of the training I received wasn't able to cross over (defensive tactics, emergency driving, weapons training, etc) but a lot of the training I received was a cross between criminology/ psychology/ and law so it was applicable. But I was not allowed to bypass any classes such as English, Algebra, etc. So I agree depending on the degree and training, it should happen.
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Like mac said earlier, you will see some abuse with this shit, and then you will have a bunch of shamuriing dbags who get ahead in life with out actually being worth a FUCK!
 
There are already some "shamuriing dbags" who do. That is the number one reason why I quit my last job.
 
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