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Army Cuts Popular Education Benefit in Half, Bars Officers as Costs Soar

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The Army is dramatically scaling back one of its most generous education benefits, the Credentialing Assistance program known as Army CA, in a bid to rein in costs that could be one of the most consequential shifts in soldiers' benefits in years.

Introduced force-wide in 2020, Army CA was hailed as a groundbreaking complement to traditional scholarship programs and offers soldiers $4,000 annually to pursue civilian credentials in fields like cybersecurity, coding, personal training and commercial driving. The credentials were designed to bolster both military careers and civilian transitions.

 
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The Army is dramatically scaling back one of its most generous education benefits, the Credentialing Assistance program known as Army CA, in a bid to rein in costs that could be one of the most consequential shifts in soldiers' benefits in years.

Introduced force-wide in 2020, Army CA was hailed as a groundbreaking complement to traditional scholarship programs and offers soldiers $4,000 annually to pursue civilian credentials in fields like cybersecurity, coding, personal training and commercial driving. The credentials were designed to bolster both military careers and civilian transitions.

If your system is built on ‘up or out’, and ‘up’ has become very dependent on graduate education, and you dramatically reduce the help you give to ‘up’…
 
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