Military budget cuts suspend tuition assistance - Mary Tablante, USA Today

More than 250,000 troops in the Army and Air Force will be affected by tuition assistance program suspensions this year — the number of Marines affected is not yet known. To help finance his college education, Robert Guthrie, 22, joined the Maryland Army National Guard two years ago. Although he left school to work full time, he had plans to go back and study business management. But because of federal spending cuts that took effect March 1, Guthrie will need to find other ways to pay for college. The Army, Air Force and Marine Corps are suspending their tuition assistance programs, denying tuition for thousands of troops. http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/ccp/military-budget-cuts-suspend-tuition-assistance