Oklahoma National Guard Education and Incentives

10/29/2019

https://youtu.be/GFZyNs-8Flk

Announcing the Army's new self-directed Credentialing Assistance Program. It provides up to $4,000.00 funding towards tuition, fees, books and materials to S...

10/10/2019

New Credentialing Assistance (CA) program coming effective 1 Jan 2020. Go to Army Cool website to research over 1600 possible credentials. The credential must be listed on the Army COOL website. Once it goes active in Jan, you can contact the OK education office to get started. You will need a minimum of 30 days before the class starts. So realistically any class that starts after 1 Mar 2020. You are limited to 4000.00 per fiscal year, but unlike Federal TA, it will pay for books, fees and testing exams. You will need to contact local vendors to provide to education office to get them “vetted”.

07/10/2019

Transfer of Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits has been extended to 12 January 2020 for Soldiers approaching 16 or more years of service. After 12 Jan 2020 if you have over 16 years of service you will not be eligible transfer to your dependents unless you previously did this.

06/11/2019

Transfer of Education Benefits (TEB) deadline approaching. The TEB Deadline for Soldier's reaching 16 years of service is 12 July 2019. If you have 16 or more years of service after 12 July, you will not be able to transfer your benefits to your dependents. Don't wait!! This is for Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits (if you were prior active duty or mobilized).

04/02/2019

Students/Soldiers:

I am requesting that you please take the time to complete the ARNG National Needs Survey which went live on surveymonkey on 1 Apr and will run through 30 May 2019. The survey is at www.surveymonkey.com/r/FY19ARNGSurvey

The survey can be completed on any device with access to the Internet (including Cell Phones). It only takes about 5 minutes to complete. Your comments help improve the overall ex*****on of ARNG education programs and services and further enhance the strength and readiness of the ARNG.

The G1 will be putting out this information through command distribution for all Soldiers to complete in the next few week. Please be proactive and complete the survey. Results of the survey will be available in July 2019.

Thanks for all that you do for our great country and the State of Oklahoma.

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03/21/2019

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03/21/2019

New TEB Policy for Purple Heart recepients. See below.

03/21/2019

New Transfer of Benefits to dependents (TEB) policy. See below.

03/21/2019

New VET TEC program is a five-year pilot program offering eligible Veterans with a minimum of one day of unexpired GI Bill entitlement an opportunity to enroll in high-tech educaiton programs. See below Q&A for information.

01/22/2019

The Manual Kicker Request Process is now online via GKO. It can be viewed at https://gko.portal.ng.mil/arng/G1/D03/B01/S02/SitePages/home.aspx

This is manually input by the GI Bill Manager or Incentive Manager once the Soldier extends.

01/22/2019

The FY19 ARNG Education Handbook and Education Benefits Briefing has been released. It can be viewed on GKO Education page at

06/11/2018

The Federal TA Policy for Soldiers has changed effective 6 Aug 2018. The new policy eliminates the one year wait and now Soldiers can use Federal TA upon graduation from AIT, OCS or BOLC. Soldiers that used Federal TA for any portion of their Bachelor's Degree no longer have to wait until they have 10 years in the Army. As soon as the Soldier completes either the Advance Leadership Course, Warrant Officer Advanced Course or the Captains Career Course they may apply for Federal TA for their Graduate Degree. Call Mr. Brehm, Supervisory Education Services Specialist at 405-228-5533 if you have any questions. Please share this good news with Soldiers and potential recruits.