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By Matt Scherer Imagine my surprise to find out from one Marine that he wasn’t getting his housing allowance while taking classes at a local San Antonio junior college. He told me that when he started college in September. He had gotten three months without getting this veterans’ allowance of $1980. That prompted me visit the local educational institute in…
Are you looking to start a career in technology? Boots to Books is offering access to several free certification courses as part of its Google Career Certificate cohort. Available to the military community, these courses cover a wide selection of in-demand skills, including IT, cybersecurity, data analytics, project management, UX design, and digital marketing. Participants can train at their own…
Hero Hut has created the “Force for Good” scholarship. This $5,000 award will be given to a veteran transitioning out of the military to pursue higher education, trade school, or professional certification. The scholarship is named in honor of Army veteran Taylor Force. After five years of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Taylor wanted to pursue an MBA, seeing education…
Our friend, Joe Sanchez, shared this recent LinkedIn post on cybersecurity apprenticeships. Here’s the link for those veterans interested in cybersecurity careers. Veterans, especially those with security clearances, should visit this application link.
Free trade training for the military community. When we saw this Jai Salter post, we want to investigate further this Home Depot Path to Pro program. Here’s what we found. Trades such as a construction work average $36 an hour. Further data from this website shows how the trades provide career opportunities throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin…
Free IT technology training is available through www.cloudveterans.org, a non-profit that helps those in transition obtain certifications for high demand tech jobs. When Jai Salter, the executive director of ACT Now Education, posted this information on his LinkedIn profile, we wanted to share this opportunity. Please also go to www.cloudveterans.org/bootcamps to learn more about this.
By Pete Scherer American schools suffer from a lack of personnel, with over 300,000 positions left unfilled. For the current school year (2024-2025), it is estimated that there are approximately 49,000 vacant teaching positions. In addition to the teacher shortage, schools are hindered by a severe lack of bus drivers and security guards. The Patriots to Education program seeks to…
Do military families and veterans pursuing education know about the free application costs for their admission to Texas public schools from Oct. 13 to 19? According to other press reports, Senate Bill 2231 established Free College Application Week. This bill should increase the number of applicants for public schools. The law establishes the second week of October as an opportunity…
(Editor’s note) Visit most military job fairs, and there are at least two to three colleges trying to enroll veterans into their programs. YETTTTT!!!! The MILTrac content team rarely see trade school or workforce training programs setting up their booths. That’s why when Tyrone Hewitt, a frequent contributor to our website, posted this article about trade schools, we wanted to…
Thanks to Tyrone Hewitt, a retired Navy senior chief and Navy readiness officer, we got some information on how some veterans can obtain an additional 36 months of VA educational benefits. Hewitt posted: “On April 16, 2024 the Supreme Court of the United States decided that if you served at least two periods of service-one that qualifies for the Montgomery…
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