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GSW, Ga. Military College sign articulation agreement

AMERICUS — Georgia Southwestern State University and Georgia Military College signed a new articulation agreement on GSW’s campus Thursday that is designed to ensure a smooth transition from associate’s degree programs at GMC to GSW’s new Long-Term Care Management program. Graduates with the LTCM degree will have the managerial, budgetary and communication skills necessary in […]

November 6, 2018

Paperwork backlog delays benefits to veterans attending Wichita State

More than 100 student veterans at Wichita State University have not received their GI Bill benefits because of a paperwork backlog caused by understaffing at the university’s Military and Veteran Student Center. Delayed payments prompted some students to drop courses or withdraw from the university altogether, student leaders said, and they urged WSU to rectify […]

November 6, 2018

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The Citadel wants more female cadets, so it’s changing the rules to entice them

The Citadel is making a change in an effort to attract more female cadets. The military college in Charleston, S.C., has changed its rules about grooming, according to a news release from The Citadel. Part of the adjusted grooming rules will mean “fourth-class female cadets” are no longer required to cut their hair “at matriculation,” […]

November 6, 2018

In first, UK university divests from firms supplying Israel army

In the first move of its kind, a UK university has divested from companies that supply military equipment to the Israeli army following a student campaign. The University of Leeds on Thursday made the decision to divest from three companies which were found to be complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights: Airbus, United […]

November 6, 2018

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This is how the Corps is overhauling its enlisted military education to boost lethality and college accreditation

The Corps is amid a large-scale modernization of its enlisted professional military education in an effort to prepare its noncommissioned officers for a future fight. Upcoming changes include the renaming of the Enlisted Professional Military Education Directorate to the College of Enlisted Military Education, adding a week to the resident Sergeants School, and streamlining curriculum […]

November 2, 2018

Veteran student recounts struggles in attending college

When Denise Landon, a deaf studies major and a veteran who served in the Navy for seven years, walked into the Veterans Resource Center during her first semester in the spring of 2017, she was petrified for what she was about to admit. As Landon approached the front resource desk she thought about her then-93-year-old […]

November 2, 2018

Miami helps veterans and military-affiliated students from orientation to graduation

Miami University staff help veterans and military-affiliated students from the time they arrive on campus to when they are searching for jobs as they prepare for graduation. The Student Veterans’ Center on the Oxford campus is the newest way Miami is helping the students. Lincoln Walburn, Student Veterans Association adviser and associate director of the […]

November 2, 2018

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‘Disrespectful vandalism’ strikes University of Iowa veterans center

IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa has improved signage in the lobby of its communication center, which houses its Military and Veteran Student Services, after finding incidents of “disrespectful and unacceptable vandalism.” UI officials didn’t immediately provide details about the vandalism. But in a message Thursday to the UI military community, Vice President for […]

November 2, 2018

Chinese military secretly placing scientists in U.S. universities

The Chinese government is secretly enrolling the country’s prize military scientists in Western universities to gain expertise in such areas as “hypersonic missiles and navigation technology,” according to a new report. The report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which has links to the Australian defense ministry, claimed that People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has paid […]

November 1, 2018

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Georgia Military College students help clean up southwest Georgia storm damage

ALBANY — A group of Georgia Military College students in Milledgeville, Valdosta and Albany assisted in Hurricane Michael cleanup this week. In 24 hours, 39 student volunteers had signed up for the day of service. GMC officials said the volunteers were happy to help people in the Albany community recover from the storm. GMC-Milledgeville Professor […]

November 1, 2018

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How to give military kids a fighting chance at a good education

Students who come from military families experience unique challenges throughout their educational career. These children will transfer an average of six to nine times from the time they start kindergarten until they graduate high school. The frequent moves and the added stress of having a parent deployed to a war zone can be very disruptive […]

November 1, 2018

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LCS students donate supplies for military care packages

As part of Lafayette Christian School’s community work week, the fifth-grade class donated items for care packages to the U.S. Army. The students gave more than 90 cards, over hundreds of foods, multiple office supplies and toiletries to army personnel at the school Wednesday. Fourth and fifth grade teacher Jennifer Denney said the class chose […]

November 1, 2018

Palm Beach State College Opens New Vet Center

Veterans Success Center, a 2,300 square-foot site at Palm Beach State College to help veterans pursue an education, will open Thursday in suburban Lake Worth as U.S. Reps Lois Frankel and Brian Mast speak before an expected crowd of 200 people. “This center will help veterans get enrolled in classes and use their GI Bill […]

October 30, 2018

Aviation Industry

In a few milliseconds, electrical arcing in aircraft wiring can release thousands of joules of energy. This is enough to ignite wire insulation, pierce hydraulic lines, and compromise critical flight-control subsystems. The aviation industry urgently needs reliable arc-fault detection and mitigation measures. Going on decades now, academic and commercial research on the subject continues because […]

October 30, 2018

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University of Bridgeport Debuts New STEM Bus

BRIDGEPORT — The University of Bridgeport will cut the ribbon Thursday on a STEM on Wheels bus that will bring hands-on science — and a robot named Dash — to area schools. The mobile laboratory will teach students how to code, retrieve and interpret satellite data by contacting earth orbiting satellites and about mechatronics, a […]

October 30, 2018

West Point Signs Research Agreement With IT Consulting Firm

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Maryland. Officials at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Enlighten IT Consulting — a MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) subsidiary, an Alion Company. The research agreement provides advanced data analytics and tackles system challenges including how the application of analytics within key cyber terrain […]

October 30, 2018

Marine from Rural Ga. Says Military Helped Him Leave Comfort Zone

The Marine Corps expanded Adam Tomblin’s view of the world and helped him achieve a series of firsts. The longtime Commerce resident had never flown in an airplane until he joined the Marines in 2008. In four years in the Marines, Tomblin, now 28, traveled far out of his comfort zone in rural northeast Georgia […]

October 30, 2018

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Military Could Face Budget Cuts if Democrats Control Congress

If Democrats gain control of one or both houses of Congress in November, military experts are concerned about potential budget cuts – and the resulting effects on military preparedness. “I think we’ll find that the money Congress and the president have given the military in the past two years has been desperately needed – and […]

October 30, 2018

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