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    Army ROTC Advance Camp Summer 2017 - Questions

    Anyone know if they are or aren't giving out mail to the cadets at Advance Camp this year? Some friends said they mailed my DD a care package that the postal service shows as delivered a week ago and several other friends mailed letters, but she hasn't been given any mail nearly 2 weeks in...
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    CIET - Short report from 1st Regiment

    This isn't solely directed to Jcc123, but I've done my 33 years not counting 4 in High School as a kid...so I've I'm not a novice on the subject and perhaps have more experience than those still serving. This was politics that moved the location. Norm Dicks from Washington retired in Jan 2013...
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    CIET - Short report from 1st Regiment

    Just heard from my DD in CIET 1st Regiment. They were in Tent City last night and a major storm started taking down tents. Started doubling and tripling up tents (40 in a tent now) and 8 tents came down and people were getting hurt by falling poles. The evacuated the tent city and came back...
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    Room and Board

    Sorry....I'm sure it was something that snuck up on you too and that you never expected to have to pay tax on a scholarship. Thats why I wanted to mention it in this forum.
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    Room and Board

    There is an easy fix...Congress can merely write a law to exclude the income if it's associated with ROTC. The Internal Revenue Code section 61 states that all income is taxable unless excluded by the statute. So just exclude it like they do for things like various drugs manufactured in Puerto...
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    Room and Board

    FYI: If the school pays room and board, they usually report it as scholarship on the 1098-T in block 5. If you or your child is a full scholarship contracted student, you won't have anything listed in Block 1 (Payments rcvd for tuition) or Block 2 (amounts billed for qualified tuition). You...
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    CIET Cancelled?

    My daughter is a contracted MS1 Nursing Student and was told today that she is attending early June.
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    CULP and CIET summer 2015 AROTC

    My daughter is a contracted MS1 and just got her CIET class in June 2015. She tells me that its not paid because its training. Any truth to that? I read on some college websites that they get paid for CIET & CLC. If not, at the very least you'd think that she should get her stipend...right?
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