You hiring a self taught electrical engineer with no certification?youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:41 pmThere is TA available for those that have served....not following you.a fan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:30 pmNo, but if you enlist in the military, you're on the hook for 6 years of service. Yet you don't get free education plus room and board at an elite school.youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:18 pm I really do not grasp your half wit logic argument.....what does poor or rich have to do with anything in the realm of this discussion about SA's? Do non SA colleges make you sign a contract to serve 5+ years of military service upon graduation?
You have an answer as to why? Remember: this is the government, not the free market. Why does one group serve for 6 years and get, to quote from the US Army's own web page "retired soldiers are not allowed tuition assistance"....and another a free ride? This taxpayer is not happy with this arrangement.
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I think you missed the part I exchanged with Dmac: service is the solution. You give college tuition in exchange for service.
I'm trying to get Republicans to figure out how to educate TrumpNation. They are the part that's in the way right now.
My point to OS is: why do you get this freebie from the government, and we can't offer it to everyone else?
His response is that he thinks a Government Program is the free market. It's not. This is an arbitrary choice by our Government, and an unfair one at that. Picking winners and losers, and throwing taxpayer money at the winners.
There also is discreet difference between Enlisted and Officers? The grads of SA's are officers, Enlisted people do not become Officers...maybe a Warrant Officer, but that is equal to a rather lower rank, can not recall.
Now an Enlisted person can gravitate out of the fleet and be recommended to attend OCS Officer Candidate school and even go to the USNA, USMA, etc as a 'prior' Enlisted, happens all the time.
This is a similar argument we have on the education thread, where you are required to have a college degree to even apply for a job, even though you could run circles around someone with a degree. The military has this line in the sand between the two, Enlisted & Officer. Others can chime in, but Officers are often far more trained in real world leadership/academia things, whereas the enlisted are more locked in on silos of expertise. And to be clear, you do not need to attend USNA etc, to be an officer. Many of the highest ranking in USN, such as Rear Admirals, come from public and state colleges.
I am not hiring a tradesman that’s not certified to work on my house… I don’t care who recommends him/her.