College tuition is the primary inducement to those who comprise America’s all-volunteer fighting force.
One of the few bright lights in an otherwise bleak future is the quid-pro-quo offered by the military for a better life through its college education benefit package.
The promise of $250 per credit hour for those currently enlisted has just been eliminated. With college education barely affordable to America's men and women in uniform at that level, now with no Tuition Assistance, it has become impossible.
The door to a college education has again been slammed shut in one of the very few venues left as a gateway to higher education for those in need.
Our nation's standing promise of an education in exchange for blood and guts should be honored.