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Actually, this is not 100 percent accurate. If you paid out of pocket tuition you can offset as you had cash outflow for tuition. Such as you took summer courses. You will get tax form from university showing amt paid vs scholarship. As well, remember your cadet may still not trigger taxes...

Uniforms, car, security deposit for housing, security deposit for utilities, furniture (bare minimums so not living on folding chairs), other household items. Remember they are not like an rotc grad that may have accumulated some apt items and had utilities in name in past to not have to do...

To help his case also suggest upon return home that he start an intensive training program to ensure performing well above minimum pass on ACFT which in turn should help with weight. ACFT is actually easier to pass than old APFT as no subjectivity in the grader for push-ups if fully breaking...

DS is in same position and takes the room and board pymt from ROTC and uses the university scholarship to tuition. It’s an algebra/ goal seek exercise you need to do to determine which option gets YOU the best/most favorable out of pocket cash option. This is really restating what the prior...

So to cut to chase. For your question. Tuition book and subsistence allowance (stipend) are all non-taxable. It doesn’t matter if 10k at state school or 60k private same treatment. Now if you have another academic scholarship and are taking the 10k per year pymt for room and board some...

Go to clothing sales and get 4 sets hot weather ocp. I was shocked at cost bank in day when had to buy bdu’s, greens, blues. Have told DS that his costs for uniforms won’t be much different if he goes reserve/guard or active duty.

It is pay based on approximately $40 per day less taxes as it is considered pay and taxable for federal tax and state tax is dependent on your state. the monthly stipends during the school year are not taxable. Told DS that if he goes reserve forces after commissioning his monthly take home...

Suggest you read the entire thread. Prior poster referenced congress lifting mandates. Not aware that I needed to prepare a full dissertation or legal brief as intent was to follow the conversation as hopefully our cadets and service members understand that federal law trumps state law...

Hopefully if they make that reversal they do the same for all who were kicked out in years prior to don’t ask don’t tell and further modernization of views on alternative lifestyles. Perhaps if they reinstate it sets precedence to reinstate in future any drug dismissals if they legalize in future.