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Post 9/11 GI Bill Changes to Take Place on August 1, 2013

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One of the big benefits of the Post 9/11 GI Bill is the benefit’s transferability. Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits can be transferred to family members of our servicemembers, enabling children and even spouses to use the benefit to finance their education.

But beginning on August 1, 2013, servicemembers will have to serve an additional four years to transfer the benefits.

Lessons From Space: What Law Enforcement Officers can Learn about Teamwork and Leadership

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Law enforcement and space travel share a high degree of risk in much of what they are required to do —the margins for error in both professions are very narrow! Dr. James Reilly, Associate Vice President at American Military University, shared lessons he learned about teamwork and leadership from his 13 years working for NASA as an astronaut. Learn more about their successes and failures and how this can be applied to your career.

Why Education Matters – Part II

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Vince Patton, Ed.D.
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, USCG Retired

As we approach the chief radioman’s stateroom, Flanagan (Scott’s his first name, but everyone called each other by their last name that few of us ever knew what the first name was) gave me a quick revised ‘how to report aboard’ line, and told me with all sincerity, “forget what they taught you in RM school – this is how it’s done out here in the REAL COAST GUARD.” So, all I had to do was just say to the chief, “I’m Patton, your new radioman reporting aboard.” So – I knocked on the chief’s stateroom door, and about a second after the knock, I hear this gravelling yell, “WHAT DUH YA WANT!” in a rather southern-type drawl. I repeated what Flanagan told me to say. It was rather interesting that after hearing the yell from the other side of the door, Flanagan sort of ‘takes off’ at Mach speed. The stateroom door opens, I get a quick split second glance of the chief, and immediately the door is slammed in my face.

Why Education Matters – Part I

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Vince Patton, Ed.D.
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, USCG Retired

Nelson Mandela’s quote is appropriate as far as defining my own academic success.  In February, 1973, having just graduated from Coast Guard Radioman ‘A’ School in Petaluma, CA, I reported to my first assignment, the 378 foot high endurance cutter, USCGC DALLAS, which was at the time homeported at Governors Island, NY, a small tiny paradise that sits just a ½ mile or so from the southern tip of Manhattan.