SEIU 668 CHAPTER  4

College Credit for Military Experience 

Many employers require verification of educational experience.  Your military service educational transcripts enable you use your experience to further boost your resume.  It pays to get these transcripts.

Additionally, your military service may have earned you college credit. Many schools and colleges award military veteran students credit towards a degree based on training, coursework, and occupational specialty. When you take the time to find the schools that do this you can save tuition dollars and classroom time!

Getting ACE credits

Each service will provide unofficial personal copies and send schools an official copy of your transcript at no charge. Each service branch has their own system for recording your military education and experience credits.  Have all of your official transcripts from previous colleges and service branches sent to your new school for evaluation.  If you get this done before you start taking classes, it will prevent you from taking unnecessary classes and may help you graduate faster.

Veterans

Under most circumstances, Veterans are eligible to use their former service branches transcript program. However if you are not eligible for AARTS, SMART, CCAF, or CGI systems, you will need to fill out form DD 295.pdf and provide your DD-214 Discharge Document to receive credit or your experience.

Army

·         The army’s AARTS system, automatically captures your academic credits from military training, and Standardized tests. The AARTS system is available to enlisted soldiers only.

·         Army Officers must use the DD 295.pdf to report their military training and experience.

Navy and Marines

·         The Navy and Marine Corps use the SMART system. This system automatically captures your training, experience and standardized test scores. SMART Homepage

Air Force

·         The Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) automatically captures your training, experience and standardized test scores. Transcript information may be viewed at the CCAF web site.  CCAF Transcript Request

Coast Guard

·         The Coast Guard Institute (CGI) requires each Servicemember to submit documentation of all training (except correspondence course records), along with an enrollment form, to receive a transcript. Coast Guard Institute Education Page

The American Council on Education

Another resource for your benefit, the American Council on Education (ACE) was created to recognize the educational value of military training and experience.  Visit ACE Military Programs to see how much credit you may have earned.

Credit freely given to www.military.com 2008 for this information.  Thank you for supporting our troops in all stages of service.