Hello all,
I contract on Friday for the 4 year Type 7 HSSP and am just wondering how long it will take to get my stipend and money for books...my family really doesn't have much now so I really need this ASAP.
Thanks so much!
$300 book stipend is a bit of a surprise - first time I heard it but I verified it on military.com. Also saw type 2 scholarship is now reduced to $15,000 Max from $18,000. DS school pays difference so I don't think it will matter for him but some cadets may have an unexpected balance due.
My tablet doesn't show the article, I am just curious if they are reducing it for the classes of 15-18 or starting this year with the candidates applying for 19. I would be ticked to find out that I was promised 18k and accepted the scholarship under that premise and now I have to find 3k more.
I know our DS was the year it bumped up from 15 to 18, which was back in 08, class of 12.
It seems like the AF has come to point they have squeezed every penny possible...they are back at all of the rates of the year group that entered in 08...thank you sequestration.!
~ unfortunately most people think that the sequestration was just for that one year, when in reality it will impact the military for many more years to come.
My DS is leaving in the morning for a 12 hour bus ride to South Carolina for a drill competition. Then they leave Saturday night to drive all the way through back home. Last year, the Navy game them $50 for a meal allowance. This year they each get $25. But at least the MIDN don't have to pay for the bus and it is a great opportunity for them to travel and meet others. Though I doubt he will feel that way 4 hours in to the journey. I just hope someone makes sure the bus has good tires. last year they had a blow out. Not a good thing to happen in the mountains they have to pass through. I know. I know. Those hardly can be called mountains. But I am a flatlander.