US Army Cuts Education Benefits?! Credentialing Assistance Gone... 

@@G6Tarantula So instead of having people leaving after 4-6 years they just won't join. Congratulations, you've really boosted army numbers lol. It's insane to argue that people are joining for the "wrong" reasons when the army constantly fails to meet recruitment targets. This is not a time for weird gatekeeping.

They think cutting benefits will make SMs believe they should stay in service longer to get their degree.

@@G6Tarantula Of course the people join the military to serve their country but why will our youth join now especially how anti military most are. What is the benefit of joining now, most people are enlisted when joining. The pay isn't good either, fuck them for joining then right. What a privilege to join and shitty leadership fucks you with the green weenie. Has to be a benefit to join. Would you rather have homeless vets after they ets? Fucking moldy barracks what privilege, thinking like our god damn leadership.

So much for college I hope I'll make selection for green berets. I just hate the way meps looks for shit that can screw you from joining.

@@Steady_Infuzed good luck man

I think they’re gonna draft a couple thousand people & don’t wanna just give edu-bens away for free lol 😂

They’ll draft you soon enough. Go to trade school and get in great shape.

@@onerider808 the draft is not coming. They're just recruiting smart people. This gets rid of the dumbassea that are canon fodder anyways. No need for canon fodder when we have robotics armies nowm

​@@RubensBarrichello.Yeah, ok. All the smart people are the ones that stay away at this moment in time. Maybe next year.

@@MrBrandonata 😂

Don’t join, not worth it. I guarantee your first contract in a peacetime physical labor mos will leave you broken before you get out. Read, work out, and focus on building a successful business. The army will take away all of your time and leave you with crumbs

To serve the fucking country dude !!! Selfless service duh not everyone is a selfish asshole

@@Dnariobeats1289 And you expect Gen Z to join because of “selflessness”? Have you ever thought about why we are in a recruiting crisis bro? Do You think selflessness is going to bring us some more recruits? I can understand if we’re at war, but we’re at a peace time. Not many people want to join the military to get treated like shit, get paid like shit, & get injured for some political view they don’t believe in, & I don’t blame them man. Personally, I’m in the process of trying to get into the army, but I understand peoples point of view as well, I don’t blame them.

@@Dnariobeats1289 i can understand what you’re saying if we were at war, but it’s peace time. Gen Z doesn’t want to join the military to be selfless, or to get treated like crap, paid like shit, and on top of the, injuries. Especially when I can make 50k at McDonald’s. Also, let’s be real, Most people join the military for the benefits, to find a way out of poverty, or to find some type adventure.

​@1289derrick that's a stupid claim, it's not selfish to want the benefits you should get for serving the country and losing certain freedoms.

See how far that goes when AI takes over and they lay people off it’s already happening in Ca

If they don’t want to join to help protect the country their loved ones live in, and to also help those who innocently live in tyrannical dictatorships then they can stay out🤷🏻. Even if they don’t get their college paid for, they still can learn and earn extremely valuable life lessons that would help them that they wouldn’t have if they didn’t join. IMO yea it sucks to have less of your education paid for but that shouldn’t be the only reason for someone to join or not join.

@@G6Tarantulabro, it’s peace time. Let’s get our numbers and still get an education. Nothing wrong with that

@@G6Tarantulanobody is signing their life away for 6 years and risking their health just to learn some lessons. You need to give people reasons to join especially when you’re getting paid less than minimum wage, can’t see your family, and have to put your life on the line for people that don’t care about you

@@G6TarantulaThere’s the lifer-grunt-mentality, and there’s being a useful idiot for oil barons, and the fools in Washington who wield you like tools to be discarded. Can you guess which category you fall in? If you don’t work for the recruiters then you’re a fool for spouting this BS. No one in the armed forces is defending their home, their interests, or even their basic freedoms which have all been stripped away when they return to find out they were never fighting for freedom.

@@chainarmor448and we’re under corporate occupation there’s no legit defense of this place when the govt has been hi jacked

Part of why I did was the education benefits as I was hoping to use the COOL stuff at least, argh!!! If it's based on mos after this not sure what I can get as a 19k.

@@GamerChick5567 I’m 25H, I think I still might be able to get a cyber cert but only being able to put $1000 per year isn’t really going to do much for me.

@@mexicanjumpingbearhave you considered the marines? I’m not sure if the army offers better benefits or anything but from what I’ve been able to quickly search 25H is an infantry company but marines are also known to be infantry combat focused.

⁠@@Alonso-be2qpI’m a 25H as well In the army it is not infantry it’s IT, Infantry sounds cool and all that but it won’t help you in getting a good paying civilian job at all.

The military as a whole is going in the shiiter

This!

Good thing about combat engineers is they can go back to Burger King when they get out.

That’s why I choose 88M because it translates into what I’m already doing

Make sure they don’t have to pay to educate all those illegal aliens they are filling the ranks with

They think by cutting education and keeping soldiers dumb and uneducated will keep them in.

Lack of funds

@@Dnariobeats1289lack of fundss !!!!!! Like we never sent billions to ukraine and israel for the last god know how long

Also, they're paying new soldiers 50k, but soldiers re-enlisting are only eligible for 5k(if lucky). We need to fire that Sec Army. She has no military experience and is a diversity hire.

I was literally thinking about this. This doesn't make any sense, they literally need CA in order to train and progress certain MOS's.

Ok, it’s not like they are getting rid of the GI bill. That would be waaay worse. That infantry or artillery guy who doesn’t want to stay in the army anymore, still has the option to go to trade school or college after their time in service. This really doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. Before I watched this video, I thought he was going to say that the Gi Bill was being reduced. It seems to me that the CA benefit was something introduced to help out those kinds of people who did not want to put in the time and hard work of being in school for multiple years. Sorry guys, but taking shortcuts and skipping the formal education isn’t always the solution. I know that is easier, but for some guys like me who enlisted, right after HS, and did not have a degree when we got out of the service still has that option of getting a degree or diploma from tradeschool. This is not the end of the world for y’all. Y’all still have the option of the army paying for a bachelors degree or trade diploma.

You sound like you work in the C&E shop

$1500 is pocket change

@@Robert_H_Diver Of course it is to you. Respectfully. But to a junior enlisted soldier, its well over half their pay.

Scholarships. There might be a conglomerate that arises that does offer scholarships to veterans. I mean some of the scholarships available no one even applies for. I remember one time my white friend got a $500 scholarship only intended for black people because she was the only one who applied for it. She got like 30 $500-$1000 scholarships and went for free. Granted she spent A LOT of time applying for scholarships.

​@@RubensBarrichello. WTF? Where are these scholarships? I haven't been able to find one that gets approved.

Wow thanks for much for that! 🙏

I would be livid.

That's awful.

They started that stuff once they lumped people who could fix a multimillion dollar satellite system to component level with some dude doing PMs on tanks. Technician used to really mean something. I had my choice of good jobs when I got out. Now it means basically nothing. It’s stupid, because in real war you cant count on contractors. I’d love to see them return to year long AITs and teach troops to fix anything in their system to the component level, in the field. Make ‘maintenance man’ mean something again.

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funny how they make all these requirements when youre supposed to "retire" like TAP so they have an excuse to make sure you dont be homeless when your contracts ends, but here they are making sure you become homeless more than ever.

With so money that Congress gave to Ukraine and Taiwan I’m not suprised

@@demarralrobinson2530that’s incorrect. Please check your resources.

@@demarralrobinson2530 That's not money thats being "given" to ukraine. Europe is giving Ukraine cash. We are giving them weapons. That means that every shell we give them, represents money put back into the US economy because we had to pay for that shell. And what we paid went into US jobs, US steel, and american explosives. South Korea is going gang busters on arms exports. And our policy of limiting arms exports to anti democratic companies means we don't have many customers around the globe. But when we "give" military supplies to ukraine. We are paying ourselves. We are paying our defense industry. Keeping the production lines going. Because the cost of shutting down production, then starting up again, is greater than the cost of keeping production going.

Dam :(

I'll be joining later this year with only two year left of school before my masters. That's why I intend to use the TA shortly after getting enlisted and hopefully have enough energy to study on the weekends.. I was told that the TA applies to your spouse too which is pretty cool. SO thankfully that's not affected

@@TobbeStormThe spouse can use the SM TA but it’s a bit of headache paperwork. it’s possible though. Only available through certain ranks though.

@@DocCypher Okay thank you for clarifying that. You mean rank as in E-1 to E-4? I was told I'll be going in as a E-3 due to the amount of college credits I have. Also, the MOS you signed a contract for is basically what you'll be stuck with right? As in its not easy to change if you don't like it

I came in with 280 credits. Yea got lost at college. Anyway, Came in as PFC too. I don’t have a bachelors myself yet. Rank is the named title. Private, PFC etc. Pay grade is E-#, O-#, and W-#. Yes and no on being stuck. You have the option to reclass during your re enlistment window, towards the end of your contract. They’ll cover that in basic when you’re half dead in the many hour long assembling briefings you’ll be in. or you can research that here on RU-vid or google. Highly recommend researching everything before. Even i wish i had done more research and I seemingly did more than even my peers did. as far it being easy, depends on the MOS you’re in, the MOS you want to change and the over all manning the Army has in each of the MOS’s. Example, I’m a medic. I want to switch to Practical Nursing, I can’t at my present rank. They only take SPC’s and below into that MOS. The other factor is, Medics are in massively short supply in some areas so me leaving the MOS is difficult to be approved. Can happen, in fact another MOS that’s more needed right now than medic I’d be able too. It depends on the flavor of the season. It’s not impossible, it’s also extremely difficult.

You also have packet MOS’s you can drop at any time irregardless of your re enlistment window. 12P, Avaition Warrant (Year long packet process generally or longer just getting everything you need.) Special Operations, Special Forces, SMU, 17C and several others.

Yes you will

What’s your rank and Mos?

Yeah maybe… it still would be weird to take from it though, and limit it so much. I don’t know it seems the army might really be hurting for funds nowadays…

i kinda agree, kind of hard to make use of any benefit when 12hr work day is a short one, and often times work on sat/sun. theres just no time for anything outside of work except sleep

@@GrittySoldierwe wouldn’t hurting for funds if Congress wouldn’t be sending so much money to countries other than our own

How so brother? I plan to join the USMV very soon as well.

@theundisputed3671 pick an mos that doesn't have a reputation for stupid people who do stupid things

@@HAMMERTIMEBBthoughts on 0311? That’s my only MOS. I want to do that and then go straight into private military sector.

If the army is doing it you don’t think the rest of branches will follow next

Just like, Blue Oyster Cult, song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" needed more cowbells; the Marines need more bullet blockers. We are equally blessed you've suited up for the task. Stay low, and protect your vital organs. They are useful as donor organs.

The program just came out in 2020

How do you figure this? It not like this hasn't happened many times before already. Cutting costs is just how America rolls, always has.

Thank you for making these great and informative videos.

Uhh Raahh Devil Dog!!!

Go be a cop or a firefighter. Trust me…

No they wont why would they

I might consider taking CompTIA for a job in security later on, I already have a Google certificate in Cybersecurity

@@user-im1ld9gw9o go to the navy if u wanna party with diddy😫

@@taebeendatThey will reduce price because Army is their biggest client. Thats called “the market “

The migrants coming through the Darien gap are being offered citizenship if they serve in the US military.

@@FrontUWnot a bad idea

Same ones who voted on black berets....and whose kids are probably getting free education